I just can’t get excited about these mega-hp cars anymore. It cost $62 to fill up my Legacy GT. Am I becoming a weenie?

Your becoming a weanier MR. Weanie. Its weak I’ll have to go with the 725 HP Mustang Shelby Super Snake Cobra Ford to handle er. If you now what I mean jelly bean

^YES

Pop a blue pill after gas fill. May help.

yes + 3

But realistically, where one would drive it? IN Germany gearheads are buying super cars and drive them on a weekend, but during weak drive tiny diesels. There is no speed limit for the large part of autobahn, so you can stretch legs a bit. With local police (home gestapo) making fortunes of speeding tickets where one would drive it? Yeah I know, on Santa Monica freeway in 10 mph traffic.

Yeah, where in the US are you going to stretch the legs of these things? and if you’re not buying it for the performance, it’s a waste of time and money of course.

1. BMW has to trump the 580 hp of the new Audi RS6.
2. Some people can afford the gas and need the status.

Get out of your bubble, this is a huge country. Lots of open road to be had with zero cops. If you live in LA drive out to China Lake or death valley, endless open empty roads. Police are few and far between. Mr Meanpants dont feel bad, pick your battles. I sold my ski boat last summer (because of fuel). But I still have 4 cars, 2 ski-dos, and 2 motor-cycles.

See, you guys are thinking inside of the box. What we need, is not slower cars, but faster roads. An American Autobahn? Sounds good to me.

I get my thrills on curvy roads; breaking the sound barrier on the highway is not fun for me unless it’s I-95 in Miami.

Curvy unpatrolled roads to clarify.

where would one drive it? that’s like asking why ANYONE in the U.S. buys supercars- there’s always a place for it, you just have to find it- and i do remember I-10 running from florida to cali being a good stretch of road… granted it IS monitored by the Highway Patrol

I agree with eliteski2, you americans have Vipers and Saleens but you have a 55mph speed limit, thats pathetic.Though I understand you don’t make very safe quality pieces, so it’s logic.

“What we need, is not slower cars, but faster roads. An American Autobahn? Sounds good to me.”

Amen to that bro. Unfortunately driving at higher speeds on the freeway consumes more gas as well so unfortunately there’s no gas savings there. But basically if you can afford a BMW M5, Cadillac CTS-V, Mercedes Benz AMG, Audi RS4, RS6, or any other expensive has hog sedan or even sports car, then you can also afford the gas to fill it up on.

Also true in that there are plenty of open roads in the U.S where a cop isn’t more than likely to be, it’s becoming a lot more limited. Camera’s are going up everywhere, and in States like Ohio, state troopers are patrolling the freeways up in the sky in Cessnas.

Reentering to the M5 subject, I guess this Euro-Sedans war would end only if somebody restrict ‘em. I wonder how the 2020 M engine would look like (An 900hp 8lt QuadTurbo W16 maybe).

The future M5 will have a two 1.2 litre four cylinders pushing out 287 hp each.

Fuel economy is irrelevant with these cars. The average M5 buyer probably makes north of $200k per year. Such a buyer can easily afford the $5k per year gas bill unless they were foolish enough to bury themselves in debt and other expensive toys.

The guy who makes 200K also carries mortgage north of 1 mil along with heating and air-conditioning bills north of 800/mo. Did I mention taxes on the house?

Who cares? It will be sooo expensive that most can’t buy it so who give a flyin ****!

Soon this cars gonna reach 200K easily.

55 mph limit was what, 20 years ago? It’s 65-70 now on expressways.

Listen to all you guys hear is enough to make me want to have an Old Style and a matter of fact I might!.

First off

if their would be an AMerican Autobahn which would NOT be environmentally friendly the German Autobahn was given some speed limits on strecthes of theirs because the emission levels were killing off the the trees in Germany’s famed Black Forest. ANd that’s not even counting the practical concerns.

But if these Super 500 HP autos and above Super Cars were to somehow be made Green Friendly(which I seriously doubt since to generate that kind of Horsepower your engine needs to ingest a certain amount of gas to produce that kind of power.)
Second and most importantly they’d have to be made safe via technology to go that speed without killing themselves and worse taking out innocent motorist minding their own business. But you know – the self righteousness people when they get behind the wheel anything goes!

ANyway to make an American Autobahn work Cars that could attain faster than 120MPH would need:

1.) to Eliminate the increased accident and more or less increased fatality rate that would certainly come with an AMerican Autobahn. People have’nt shown me they know how to handle going 55 to 75 MPH and some even have a hard time negotiating and making judgements driving slower than that or even standing completely still to stay out of harm’s way and not threaten the life of someone else with a total idiotic move.. My Point even though computers sometimes fail total vehicle communication would be an absolute necessity via Computers embedded to communicate with as many cars on the road as possible within the operating range of any vehicle operating on the road to avoid a collision.

This would probably include but not limited to radar, sonar, advances sensors, satellite to communicate back in real time for collision avoidance, and even computer taking over control when the driver has lost his sense and has no idea He/She is on a fatal collision course. I know many of you disagree with this as this violates your rights to kill yourself but this would be necessary to protect the larger public good if faster than 120MPH roadways are possible to do safely. The Day is quickly coming that cars will drive you to your destination so. that should take care of that. It would be great if we could all drive as fast as the famed GRX- alias the the World’s fastest car via SR 300MPH but right now its not possible,,just yet

Gotta keep up with the CTS-V. It’s probably going to embarrass the current M5 a little bit until this new model comes out.

Bring it on!

If we could get our American drivers to stop eating, putting on their makeup and video taping themselves while driving…

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I was trying to make a point there… not showing off my knowledge. AND it still being pathetic.

They should just release an all new model already. The styling on current model is too weak and is getting dated already. The the new E Class coming out they should get one out next year.

who cares?? if you can even afford to get a glimpse of this thing then fuel bills are the least of your worries. If you want economy then buy a Ford Focus 1.2 diesel morons. Cars like this arent built for economy. Yes it’ll have at least 550bhp and the V10 will be turbocharged and i also think it’ll be upgraded to 5.5 L