Yeah, That is the truth. There would be people dying by the hour
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.
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