450WHP and killing yourself? Hahaha, damn...you'd have to be a moron to kill yourself behind a car doing reckless shit. And if you're a moron, you'll kill yourself with 150HP, as well. Why do people assume that just because a car has a lot of power that someone will kill themselves in it? I've driven TONS of cars with more power than that - just recently a 500WHP Supercharged 2008 Carrera 4S my shop built. A GT-R. An Aston Martin. My brother's M6 and his V10 R8. Come on, man. It's the driver behind the wheel, not the car.
You know what power is to me? Safety. Being able to quickly avoid an asshole on the street, or someone who is about to T-bone you as he's about to run a stop sign, or safely merge on a highway with a very short entrance ramp (hello NYC). Moreover, I find slower cars more dangerous to drive fast or attempt to drive fast. A lot of people who want take a car up to some speed get into accidents because it takes too damn long for some of these cars to reach those speeds.
Let's say someone wants to do a quick sprint from 60-100 on an empty highway just for the hell of it and then slow it back down to 60. A normal car will take 15 seconds to make that sprint; the guy starts accelerating, he's breaking the speed limit for 15 seconds. A sports car with 450HP will take all of...3 seconds. That's 12 seconds of time that person will NOT be driving at 70, 80, and 90 MPH. He's broken the speed limit for 3 seconds and is on the brakes back at 60.
It may sound absolutely odd, but it makes perfect sense if the car is behind the wheels of someone with half a brain. That's just my train of thought, though.