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Originally Posted by LSxJunkie
This idea that power is useless on the street is narrowminded. If you're focused purely on blasting to the speed limit, sure. However, I miss having gobs of torque for passing at ease. And I've driven a couple of cars that'll blow the tires off from a 60mph roll at 1/2 throttle. You can certainly use all that power every day, just not from standing stop acceleration runs. Hell, at 550whp, you're not even at WOT until second gear unless you're on drag radials anyways.
I don't think the FT needs more power for what it's designed for. However, this idea that you only need enough power to get to the speed limit and the rest is wasted is certainly untrue.
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Yeah but think about it like this. Say you're in the left lane and the speed limit is 65, now giving the person the benefit of the doubt cause I know I get annoyed when someones only doing 5 over and they're in the left lane; say you want to past said person doing 70 cause you want to be doing 85. Is there really that tremendous of a difference between having a ton of power and simply downshifting two gears and hitting a higher rev range where this car makes it's peak HP? It's literally the difference of a fraction of a second unless you were planning on cutting someone off for the sake of overtaking them.