[Whos_Drivin]

Originally Posted by shaffe

And I will respectfully disagree with you on certain points. Yes track and HPDE events have become much more popular and people do want their cars to be able to corner well. But the vast majority of the enthusiast crowd, still cares about straight line acceleration, and who can beat who if they line up at a stop light because thats where most of the encounters happen. I mentioned this in another thread about the hellcat, when people(general public, car guy, bench racer, whoever) ask you if your car is fast, do you think they care or would even know if your lap times are fast or good? No, but you tell them you can hit 60 in X amount of seconds or you have no problems beating X car in a race, then they know its fast.

All depends on the crowd you associate with I guess. The Z/28 is a prime example of lap times over 1/4 mile...and last I checked they were selling pretty well even without normally standard equipment.

I won't knock the hellcat because it set the new standard for power. But just as the GT500 lost to the ZL1 in magazine reviews, the hellcat will do the same if it can't hook or turn.