YES!

 

I hate to spoil the party..but we are in the middle of the last golden age of horsepower. The EPA just ruled that CO2 is a pollutant. Europe is not far behind. Within 3-5 years carbon output will be severly regulated. All the HP gains acheived from the last dark age of HP (anyone remember the mid 70's to early 80's when a 5 liter V8 barely produced 150hp) will be lost to the new carbon regulation that can't be met without radical loss of engine HP capacity or adoption of hybreds.

 

He may be onto somehting!!

 

Look at the electric sports car from California....I hear it is a very fast thing....no exhausts to pay for either. :-)

Volt? I cannot remember the name now. Not a Detroit company. It looked great too.

JB

 

Its Tesla Motors you are thinking of
One of my employees just left to go there.
They have an electric "elise"... well built by Lotus and looks a lot like the Elise body.
0-60 is 4 seconds i think.
Limited production run was all sold before the first one shipped.
$100k i think was the MSRP

 

I don't care what any magazine says, drive both. The 997S feels lethargic once you are used to driving a 996TT. I can also hang pretty well with a 997S on the straights up to about 110 on the track in my pathetically slow Elise. A 996TT pulls easily away from my Elise in straights . . . then I catch them and pass them once we get into the turns.

I considered trading my 04 996TT cab for a 997S about two months ago, but I was actually a bit dissapointed in the power and accelleration. The dealer was running on and on how it was about the same as a Turbo. No way.

 

Any turbo car has almost unlimited potential - especially using modern turbochargers for modification.
You cannot imagine what the engineers had to do to keep the power so low in the stock 996TT - its waiting in there. Trust me.