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Originally Posted by Riftur
I actually agree with you 100%. If a car can not handle the HP it has, like FWD cars with high HP, there is no purpose at all to having that power. The 86 would be able to handle a power bump though. I bought my FRS because of everything you listed. It handles incredibly, feels great, is fun as hell to drive. Yet someone saying that HP means absolutely nothing to a sports car is just ridiculous. No matter how much you think the car does not need anymore, that is not the same as saying HP means nothing to sports cars.
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That's reasonable. Any sporty version of a car you can think of that was based on a more mainstream version usually gained power in the process, be it the Fiat 500 going from 11 hp to 28 hp to the M5 going from 200ish IN 5-series guise to 400ish in M form. I feel like the same performance gains can be achieved without increasing power though. I think one of the Ferrari F430 versions lost 100 lb instead of gaining power. Instead they added handling upgrades and such. But yeah, weight loss vs power gain are two methods used, roughly speaking.