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Originally Posted by OldScoolCamaro
....there is a diminishing return in increasing horsepower on street cars....these cars can't hook up from the factory as produced, on street tires, no matter which factory makes them, or what factory suspension harware improvents they place on them, or how they advertise it, without the aid of electronics and computers. Horsepower/torque, at the levels they are now producing, needs to be taken out of the motor and drivetrain, reducing available horsepower and torque to the rear wheels, (thereby negating the monstous advertised horsepower) to get any kind of traction from a drag race launch and run without making serious suspension and traction improvements to the frame, chassis etc...which would make the car a real drag race machine and take it away from being a street car....thus voiding the warranty. It's a high wire tightrope balancing act. In a pure sense of observation, what good is 580....650, or whatever HP if you can't use it at full potential? It's coming down not to horsepower, but who can engineer and integrate software, computers, and electronics to the motor, suspension and drivetrain to manage and limit slip (taking HP away from the motor).
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You're right, they are having more and more difficulty *to an extent* to hook up on stock tires.
But, which would you rather pay 55K for?
A car that uses all of it's power and runs a low 12 with very little room for improvement, or a car that has so much more potential on a set of DRs, but can only manage a low 12 on the tires it came with.
I don't know about you, but I'd take the power that can't be totally utilized stock.