Supercars in the 90s were truly objects of stunning man-made power.
The Corvette was deemed to be “cheap horsepower”, coming in at a stunning 345hp.
This was remarkable considering that one of the fastest cars money could buy was a Ferrari F355 which had a—wait for it—380 hp engine.
legs not included
Fast forward to 2014.
Volkswagen’s new Golf 400 R concept gets a mind-melting 400 hp, all from an engine the size of shoebox.
That’s right…the future now has a Volkswagen Golf more powerful than recent supercars.
not your slightly-older sibling’s Golf
The Corvette Z06 is deemed “cheap horsepower” again, coming in at a barnstorming 650! hp…
…all for around $76k.
Currently, there are only a few production machines that can produce that kind of rubber-liquefying power.
For reference, the new Z06 is bested only by the following bits of exotica: the Ferrari LaFerrari, the McLaren P1, the Porsche 918 Spyder, the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta, the Lamborghini Aventador and the Ferrari FF.
The cheapest you’re getting in the door with any of those is a cool $295k for the Ferrari FF.
For the price of one Ferrari FF, you can have four Corvette Z06s, with a combined total of 2600hp—or about the number of horses that have run in the Kentucky Derby since it was founded in 1875.
Also, for the first time ever, the Z06 comes in…an automatic. And a convertible.
Coming soon: large swaths of utterly neutralized pavement sprinkled with hair implants across America.
