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Originally Posted by Braces
Right or wrong ... the people who appreciate low weight and adequate power make up a minority. Especially in the USA. It's all about MORE. Trucks with more Tq to tow. Sports passenger sedans with more Hp. American muscle cars with more Hp. Exotic/Supercars with more Hp. Hell ... even electric cars like Tesla is building cars with more juice.
I don't see this pattern changing much, but eventually it will have to change.
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Yep and this is not a new fad.
Pushing HP numbers is an easy sell because it gives something that any person can compare in a common scale. The fact that those HP numbers are used differently by the rest of the drive train and overall car design is not so obvious.
1947 the "only" car to give you a 100HP V8 (more like 80 if measured using today's methods)
How about meeting the ultimate goal of "1 HP per cubic inch"? (again old measurement method)
