I have a '96 Nitrous injected Cherokee that'll kick your pickup trucks ass. It kicked a Mustang GT's ass just last week. :)
Real Men run Nitrous.
Real cars with real power don't need automotive steroids and too much of that nitrous oxide (much over a 125 shot on stock pistons) will leave your Jeep on the side of the road with a fried engine.
That Mustang you mentioned beating would blow you away with the equivalent nitrous shot. Hope you don't meet him when your blue bottle is empty.
In my opinion, nitrous is for those too lazy to do the real planning and the hard work necessary to build a fast car or else it's for teenagers who saw The Fast and the Furious and thought it was based on reality, where every little four-cylinder grocery getter just needs a lot of stickers and 'Nawwwws' (NOS: for Nitrous Oxide Systems, major manufacturer of Nitrous Oxide set-ups) to 'run in the 10's'. In their dreams. Nitrous works but it's temporary, bad for the stock engine not built to take it and too easy.
Real men drive '70 Dodge Chargers with blown big blocks like Vin Diesel drove in The Fast and the Furious. That's a Man's car. No nitrous needed. End of story.