Perhaps you've never had one stop at the end of an on ramp and needed nearly instanous zero to eighty acceleration.
That's called being the sloth's crumple zone. By placing yourself there and staying there you have just reduced the braking space for vehicles on the road, you have become dependent upon their competence and their vehicle's capabilities. This is not reasonable IMO. I want the power to pull off a double merge into the middle lane to shoot past the sloth and not become a statistic.
I can count the number of two lane on ramps I use on one finger. Hell, I cannot even think of more than one two lane on ramp right now. And it's only two lanes because there used to be a toll booth there.
When you have power, you have something you can do about it.
I don't have a problem with YOUR CHOICE FOR YOU. Do you have a problem reading? I replied when you made that privates extension remark. You are acting as if horsepower has no function in real world driving. Your cost to benefit calculation has no bearing on your previous comments. You live where? San deigo? Lots of lanes, long double ramps, etc. I live in c(r)ook county IL. Ramps are SHORT. Ramps are ONE lane. Traffic is tight and moving fast. In a low horsepower car I have to be accelerating from well before the merge point. The sloths can effectively make that impossible. Being able to accelerate to expressway speed in a very short distance is important.
Your some qualifier was on the people buying low hp cars. I simply decided to inform you the benefits of horsepower safety wise.
Again, learn to read. I never had or stated that there was any kind of problem with that. After all, I've owned two such cars and still own one. Although if that new clyinder head makes it to market that car may not have that problem any longer.
I am not justifying anything to you, I am trying to give you half a clue. But feel free to drive a geo metro in chicago and become the crumple zone between some sloth and semi that's moving at 70+mph.
