BYD's new Yangwang U9 Xtreme, a limited-edition track hypercar, debuted with a 2,220-kW four-motor system, a {{496.22 km/h}} top speed, and a new Nürburgring time of 6:59.157.
Wow, that’s insane. I mean insane that a 6.25 liter V8 only has about 200 hp in 1979!?
Didn’t the Americans make way more powerful production muscle cars at that time? I seem to recall an American road legal muscle car that could drive 350 km/h.
American V8s suffered the same fate. The 1979 Mustang’s V8 was 4.2 liters for 120 hp. The Corvette had a 5.7 for 195 or 225 hp, depending on compression ratio.
It was the smog era- without leaded fuel, fuel injection, catalytic converters, and fully computerized ignition timing, you were stuck with 8.0:1 compression and worst-case-scenario timing and fuel ratio tunings.
The mustang got a proper power plant in 1985 and heralded the end of the malaise era
Sufficient you say?
Wow, that’s insane. I mean insane that a 6.25 liter V8 only has about 200 hp in 1979!?
Didn’t the Americans make way more powerful production muscle cars at that time? I seem to recall an American road legal muscle car that could drive 350 km/h.
American V8s suffered the same fate. The 1979 Mustang’s V8 was 4.2 liters for 120 hp. The Corvette had a 5.7 for 195 or 225 hp, depending on compression ratio.
It was the smog era- without leaded fuel, fuel injection, catalytic converters, and fully computerized ignition timing, you were stuck with 8.0:1 compression and worst-case-scenario timing and fuel ratio tunings.
The mustang got a proper power plant in 1985 and heralded the end of the malaise era
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