It's a totally different driving experience when you've got 400+ HP, and I have cars well into the 1200 HP range. Even 300 HP is more than most people can handle.
It's like playing with a 10 w amp vs. playing with 10 x 400 w amps. They require entirely different techniques.
Yeah. You have to know how to control it or you're not going to have a good time
They're pretty tame with traction control - sort of. That traction control also means you build speed very, very quickly.
When you're working with that much horsepower and traction control is off, it's a whole other world. It's actually hard to take off without spinning the wheels. With drive-by-wire, you don't even have the feel for the opening the throttle via cable that you're used to.
When you do 0 to 60 under 4 seconds, or even under 3 seconds, it means you're gonna hit something even faster.
Once in a while I think about it and I'm not even sure these modern cars "should" be legal. I'm glad they are, but man they are widow-makers. I own a Shelby Cobra that once belonged to Paul Walker, who died in a car accident at a high rate of speed. He was a trained driver, and also drove in all those movies.
I know it's not the same, but I have driven several cars on my sons VR headset thing with the steering wheel and pedals and if the car does not have traction control and has high horsepower it is so super hard to keep the thing from spinning its wheels and getting out of control. I imagine that is somewhat representative
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