[SVTCobra03]

99% of the people out there cannot hope to handle 420HP. Much less more.

My 2008 Shelby GT500 has 500hp and I have no problem handling it. My wife drives it and has no problem handling it. I know people that have a 2014 Shelby GT500 with 662hp and they have no problem handling it. The Dodge Challenger Hellcat has 707hp and I anticipate that most owners will have no problem handling it. Modern cars are built to handle high horsepower.

[Norm Lenhart]

And I’ve seen a girl get into my last truck with 485 on the dyno HP and damn near rear end a car because she was used to driving with less power and stepped ‘normally’ on the gas.

Being a car buy you KNOW that 400 isn’t trifling. Put 500 on an icy road with traction control and no experience with it and watch the computer be useless. They can only do so much.

[The KG9 Kid]

Your computer-controlled power curve in your GT500 is trimmed out to allow sedate urban traffic speeds and street negotiation. It allows a pussycat mode that you could feel confident giving to your grandmother. That's the miracle of computer controlled fuel injection and power-adders like modern turbocharging/supercharging. Of course, your grandmother could be Shirley Muldowney for all I know.

You didn't mention that you can get into real trouble very quickly in your GT500 Super Snake if you wanted to, or were careless. You know what happens when you're tooling down the boulevard at 45mph and drop it back a gear and floor the accelerator. Angels aren't there to make sure your front wheels are pointed straight.

There will certainly be people found hanging out of their Challenger Hellcat up in a tree on fire in the coming months. Just like people who thought they could manhandle their Viper GTS-R found out the hard way.

Even guys driving a comparatively reserved 1979 Porsche 930 Turbo that only has 285hp found themselves wearing the poopy pants if they were rounding a corner at sufficient RPMs for the turbo to kick in...

[certrtwngnut]

I love your tag line. I have an 03 Mach1 Mustang. It ain’t a Cobra but I like it a lot.