rudebwoy

dont you know I know that if a mustang does the same thing I do I dont stand a chance? Iknow that and I recognise that. but what I am saying is, the owners of domestic cars dont, because they are closed minded about displacement owns no matter what. 2.0 neon owner make me look stupid just by talking about his stock 2.0 and my 1.8 with a bunch of domestic ignoramous friends. jsut to show how stupid most of them are.

J-SMITH69

well they are from germany... lol

who cares about those people, those are the same people who say cause i gots vtec ill beat your ls1 camaro

Walter

x2

88dx

90% 0f the cars u listed couldn’t run high 13's consistently. I know their probably tested at that but they couldn’t consistently. Oh and every GM car on that List ud have to add at least a quart of oil after the 1/4 pass

BoosTedZSix

how many of those have 6 cylinders :P

rudebwoy

they are Americans soldiers, rednecks, cowboy wanabes, confederate flag flying tobbaco chewing country boys with wierd accents. not Germans

J-SMITH69

is that an excuse for being slow? lol

only a few

the mid to late 80s GNX and Grand Nationals are as fast or faster than mid to late 90s supras

TheMadScientist

The thing about the japanese automakers is that there was an unwritten rule. Kind of an agreement that the cars would not have over 280bhp. The automakers had a sort of a "pact" at least on paper not to produce anything over 276 advertised bhp because they didn't want a horsepower war in a country were the highest speed limit is 62mph.
The nissan skyline has produced well over 276 AWHP on a dyno, right off the showroom floor.

Car and Driver January 2005
"Since 1989, Japanese automakers have all endorsed—at least on paper—a kind of gentlemen's agreement that limited their advertised horsepower to 276 on domestically produced vehicles. Their primary goal was to avoid a horsepower war in a country where the maximum speed limit is 62 mph. But in October, Honda officially broke the agreement at its Legend (Acura RL in the U.S.) press conference when it unveiled the model's 300-hp, 3.5-liter V-6.

For years, it's been presumed that once an automaker stuck out its neck and ignored the 276-hp mark, the rest would quickly follow. And judging by what's in the Japanese production pipeline, it looks as if the conventional wisdom was correct. Coming on the heels of that new Acura RL will be the Lexus RX400h with an estimated 300 horsepower, and then the flood gates open—Mazda will introduce a 300-hp two-seat RX-7, Acura will again cross the line with a new NSX with at least 400 horses, and Toyota will mark its territory with the supercar on page 36.

Japanese engine designers, however, will readily concede that the country's manufacturers have been building cars with more than 276 horsepower. It's just that none of the automakers wanted to officially break the agreement. It's no secret that Mitsubishi Lancer Evos, Subaru Impreza WRXs, and Nissan 300ZX twin-turbos have been in violation of the agreement for years, but at least in Japan, they all claimed to have 276 horsepower. The false advertising was ignored for the sake of harmony. Not anymore."

J-SMITH69

woah 300hp

ComptonsF1NEST

the RX7 spirit R and the NSX broke 276 way before the RL came out.