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Power costs money.
If you love driving you soon realize that there is such a thing as too much power.
For regular street driving these cars have ample power delivered on a torque curve that demands your attention to get the best out of the car.
The engine begs to rev out to the redline despite all the stick it gets for "not sounding right" or "sounding strained" or whatever. It sounds like a Porsche flat four would sound if Porsche made a flat four, which they are about to though because Porsche customers no longer understand that too much power can ruin a car for real drivers (356 anyone? '65 911 maybe?) so that lovely boxer growl will be muffled by a turbo or two.
These cars are ahead of their time in that you can learn how to really drive in one, then fit better tires and really enjoy maxing it out nearly every time you drive it without getting arrested, and you will never, ever get bored with the way this car drives no matter how good you think you are as a driver. It will always be capable of entertaining you, it is just that good.
No, it is not underpowered, it just needs to be truly thrashed to make it go quickly, how can anyone who really likes driving see that as a fault????
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