How many BHP does it take for you to consider a car "powerful"?

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AlphaJDM

It really depends on the weight and engine size but in general I’d say these numbers are healthy
4cly-250hp
6cly-300hp
8cly-450-500hp
Anything above a V10 is probably going to be powerful regardless

02/27/2016 - 22:15 |
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Anonymous

Never powerfull enough. Hell, you just crank the boost. You scare yourself for a week then you crank it more

02/27/2016 - 22:21 |
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Saber

It both depends on the weight of the car and its gearing- power, to me, relates to how fast can it accelerate in a controlled manner.
Overpowered is when accelerating in a controlled manner becomes less piloting a fighter and more being strapped to a Saturn V rocket. Underpowered is when instead of piloting a fighter it feels like you’re sitting in the luggage compartment of a 747.

Miata: Powerful enough once you get it rolling.

Top-fuel dragster: Powerful enough for its application but absurd for any other purpose.

WRX: Perfectly powerful enough- enough oomph to get itself out of a sticky situation, but not so much that you have to commit a felony to have a giggle in it.

02/27/2016 - 22:22 |
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ZenkiGuy

Once you drive a 240sx with 520whp anything with less than 300 seems pretty slow… there is something to say with the difference between a stock with 300hp and a modded car with 300hp though.

02/27/2016 - 22:24 |
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Alex Bunting

At least 300. My standards are probably skewed by muscle cars

02/27/2016 - 22:26 |
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Anonymous

Depends, i like bigger cars, so 400 i quess, i mean it can have less power but still have grunt or be fu**ing fast, but to earn sporty labels and and sport labels definetly somewhere round 400hp

02/27/2016 - 22:27 |
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Anonymous

Well I can’t afford to buy, let alone insure anything with more than 150 so that’ll just have to do.

02/27/2016 - 22:27 |
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_hexme

I’d say 350 on average.. Like, obviously it depends on cars weight.. I’d say that 300whp in a GT86 is powerful.

02/27/2016 - 22:28 |
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Anonymous

I think that BHP alone doesn’t make a car powerful, because of lightness and so on, i would consider both a car thats 100-200 BHP, 500-600KG and a car thats 600BHP 1500-2000KG powerful, BHP isn’t really the only thing that makes a car powerful in my opinion :)

02/27/2016 - 22:29 |
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Anonymous

Don’t bring less than 400hp to the streets kids

02/27/2016 - 22:29 |
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