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Your computer-controlled power curve in your GT500 is trimmed out to allow sedate urban traffic speeds and street negotiation. It allows a pussycat mode that you could feel confident giving to your grandmother. That's the miracle of computer controlled fuel injection and power-adders like modern turbocharging/supercharging. Of course, your grandmother could be Shirley Muldowney for all I know.

You didn't mention that you can get into real trouble very quickly in your GT500 Super Snake if you wanted to, or were careless. You know what happens when you're tooling down the boulevard at 45mph and drop it back a gear and floor the accelerator. Angels aren't there to make sure your front wheels are pointed straight.

There will certainly be people found hanging out of their Challenger Hellcat up in a tree on fire in the coming months. Just like people who thought they could manhandle their Viper GTS-R found out the hard way.

Even guys driving a comparatively reserved 1979 Porsche 930 Turbo that only has 285hp found themselves wearing the poopy pants if they were rounding a corner at sufficient RPMs for the turbo to kick in...

I love cars, performance, etc, but I’m not really sure what the point of something like a 700 HP Hellcat is on public roads. It’ll take you to license-shredding speeds in no time flat, and there’s no way it has enough tire on the ground to use all of it in the lower gears. Bragging rights, I guess. Not really much good for the track, either. Maybe drag racing?

I’d rather have a healthy amount of power (the 255 in my Murano is sufficient, although another 50-75 wouldn’t hurt) in a car that’s comfortable and handles and rides well. But then I’ve got a motorcycle for thrills, and even though it is far from the fastest (”only” about 95 RWHP, not 180 like the fastest production bikes) it will also deliver me to license-killing speeds very quickly.