David Incorporated Esq.
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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.
What is this I don't even.
There are certainly arguments to be made for power giving you a measure of safety but "I can do 100mph in less time" isn't one of them, and I very much doubt there are any emergency actions you can take that are safer at 500hp than at 300hp (unless your car weighs 4000+lbs).