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Yeah, it's strange.
A lot of people put a lot of money into making their car fast in a straight line, one that can't really be replicated in normal daily life. A lot of turbo and AWD cars can easily beat them off the line and to speeds that are plenty ridiculous for most areas that are regularly driven. Sure, my car can "pull to 175" or whatever, or maybe hit the quarter at some insane high speed, but you can't do that in "real life", only at the straight-line race track. Many of those other cars are more practical and even "fun" to be driving around in due to how they'll accelerate at lower speeds, such as an STI that passed me last night. I wasn't about to "race" him, despite him passing me at a high rate of speed.
That "straight line" speed thing just isn't impressive to me. I don't understand why you don't strap on some high power rocket engines on the back? Maybe it's because I've already had my fun with turbo AWD cars that have acceleration rates that can't be matched? A bugatti veyron gt is an amazing car, but not the fastest around a track because it's heavy. There are other super/hyper cars I'd consider first due to this. There are people who are in awe of 1000hp though...
I did put some money into suspension and drove my car on some real fun mountain roads around the CA/NV border last month. That was tons of fun, the car handled exactly as I wanted. The thing is that the handling "doesn't suck" and with a few mods it's a real nice car to take on those types of roads. No one around, not necessarily even breaking the speed limit all the time (but agressive driving can always land you a ticket or jail).
I think sports cars, sedans, whatever, should be a good "balance" of power, handling, and so on. When they get skewed too far in one direction, it makes the other areas suffer. Efficiency shouldn't even be so bad that I don't want to go out and drive it. In other words, it should make me want to drive it. If it doesn't fit that criteria, it's probably a "race car" and very specialized for one thing....
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