I think you don't get it my point.
let's just put a end with the off topic.

 

Still not liking the design, 458 is the best looking car in their lineup.

 

I think this is just being old and conservative. No offense.

 

not taken, the intention is to discuss the opinions.
I'm just against this hp's race. hehe
The new enzo with ~920 hp.
When they gonna stop?

 

They'll stop when one of three things happens:

1. Regulations change, either for safety reasons (if high-horsepower cars wind up drawing fire for being unsafe) or for environmental reasons (if public opinion turns in favor of vastly higher fuel economy standards).

2. Customers reject more powerful cars for less powerful ones.

3. Engineers reach the current power limits of gas-powered internal combustion engines.

Number 1 is possible, but considering what a small segment of the market exotic cars make up (and the relative success automakers have had increasing power levels while also increasing fuel economy), it seems pretty unlikely barring some sort of black swan event for the car industry.

Number 2 is even less likely, considering modern computers and engineering make today's absurdly powerful cars even easier to drive than the less-powerful ones of earlier decades. That trend's not likely to change, either.

As for number 3, the I/C engine still has a lot more power to give. I can't find the article, but I remember reading in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics not long ago that automotive-sized gasoline I/C engines could reach outputs well into the four-digit range before we hit any developmental walls. We see it in the Veyron, we see it in Formula One engines. There's no reason a 2,000 horsepower supercar engine is out of the realm of possibility within the next couple decades.

My question is, if it's just as easy to drive as a less-powerful car, and it gets reasonable fuel economy, and it's not exacting some sort of weight penalty...why not have the most powerful engine you can?

 

You're right, but as I see most people's problem in this discussion is, that we can't feel the old-time's soul of Ferraris. And it's may not the fault of horsepower race (remember, Enzo wanted their engineers to create the most powerful car in the world "in person of" the F40), but I can't explain what the problem is exactly, simply, I just can't feel...

 

funny enough,

the peeps crying in here don`t even own fcars

actual owners don`t moan about that or deny it,..

so just stop that BS kids

 

thank you, couldn't have said it better!

 

you're right.
sorry for the off topic.

 

Anybody have new pictures of the F12 Berlinetta? Everything's gone very quiet -- no new info, no new pictures...