I remember at the turn of the century (lol) when the 3.6L 996 Turbo had “only” 415hp. That was considered a ton of power in the day. Even the Corvette Z06 had less power - 385hp when it was released in 2000.
It’s funny to think that in my lifetime (1991) we have doubled the output of the 911 turbo.
I have two (possibly unpopular) opinions on this:
Another thing they could do is get rid of the “Over-time” Green, White, Checkered restarts, because nothing promotes crashing like restarting over and over again until there can be only one Highlander.
Because good headlights shouldn’t be an “option.”
There’s lots of non-necessary safety shit that is fine to upsell on.
Cars worked fine for over 100 years without blind spot monitoring, adaptive cruise control, or lane-keep assists. All of those things can GENERALLY be replaced by being a more attentive driver (not…
Because rarely are things that make a vehicle safer - better headlights, active safety features such as pedestrian avoidance, lane departure systems, etc. - made available on all trims of an automobile.
For instance, on the new Silverado, not only can you not get the LED headlamps on the regular cab model, if you then…