100k is getting real close to used LMP3 race car territory and those things can lap a circuit real fast as well. 

Except GM and FCA also make tons of high displacement OHV V8s and V10s that are reliable, torquey as heck, and make more specific torque and power than this engine while also revving higher.

It’s laughable because by definition, the vast majority of car engines are “torque engines” compared to bikes given how much extra weight they have to lug around all the time, and they still rev well past 5500rpm.

Given what Porsche has done with making high powered air-cooled motors engines cant be excused for performing terribly just because it uses air cooling anyways

Given this is 2020, A new gasoline motor redlining at 5500rpm would be laughable for a minivan, let alone a bike.

Close enough:

I want to go to an alternate universe where Harley is making these engines instead:

And catering to existing HD owners with their products to the exclusion of everyone else is what got HD into their current predicament in the first place.

Porsche had been producing NA air-cooled streetcar engines having over twice the horsepower and torque of this thing in the 90s, with 2 valves/cyl and way less than twice the displacement. 

I can just imagine some Corvette owner having their daily commute airless tires getting all melty after a few laps on a trackday.

Save all the barra swaps for the Supras. 

Forget the 981s, anybody who bought the 718 S/GTS just before this came out just took a bath for probably at least $5k.

The steep depreciation and tunability of those turbo Caymans might just make them actually affordable track toys for auto enthusiasts without a ton of cash.

There’s a manual, track ready sports car, made by Ford, with a bespoke 8000 rpm NA V8 being sold for under 60k MSRP.

Any developments to improve power density will have to piggyback off Aviation developments, given that there is far more reward for weight savings in that space. 

Wait 2 years old and it was 70k OFF new? How much was MSRP exactly?

A world with less flights is a world that has less trade, less exchange of ideas, and will be more insular as a result. We really, *really* don’t need more of that right now.

This hybrid setup sounds more feasible for a TOTL LS Turbo + Hybrid setup than adding all that complexity just to get ~600hp when there are a million easier ways for GM to make 600hp out of either the small block or C8R. 

I am pretty sure a good, adjustable tune + bolt-ons for a 991-2 would cost a lot less than 75k...

900 hp is a meme, but It’d be a damn shame if the public never got an unrestricted version of that C8R 5.5L flatplane V8 in a Corvette (or a Camaro), that'd be the true successor to the 458 which Ferrari never made.