Why Are Cars Becoming So Fast?

I'm about to show you four cars one of them is an SUV another is a Kia rebadged as a Genesis one is a Ford I actually used to own and one is a luxury limousine at first glance this seems like the most random comparison but it actually makes total sense all of these cars have more than 320 horsepower and all of them Reach 0 to 60 mph in either 5 seconds or less you may be thinking that's it I mean those are pretty normal numbers and that is exactly what I'm talking about cars now are the fastest they've ever been with luxury limousines packing over 560 horsepower and some family SUVs pushing 700 this made me wonder why is that to answer this question we first need to go back in time to when cars were first made the Benz patent motor car model number one this thing had a mindboggling neck breaking physics defying 0. 75 horsepower from a single cylinder fourstroke engine this was the fastest car of its time and also the only let's Jump Ahead a few decades to 1970 this is a Jaguar e type with a V12 engine and it reached 0 to 60 in 5. 5 seconds this is a 1974 Porsche 9911 turbo also known as the Widow Maker it was slightly faster than the Jaguar reaching 0 to 60 in 5.

4 seconds these two cars cars along with a plethora of others are regarded as the fastest of the' 70s the only issue here is that the four cars you saw at the start of the video yeah they're faster what basically family cars that have also been given added performance are now faster than the fastest cars of some decades before this is almost unbelievable yet to us this still isn't fast enough huh recently a Chinese company that goes by gour made a car called the T2 which is very similar to a Land Rover Defender it's got around 250 horsepower yet people were complaining that it wasn't enough the complaining got so bad that gor actually crashed out what is that you may be thinking hm okay random Chinese electric car what's so special about it a Bugatti Chiron has 1,578 horsepower this has 1 1572 6 horsepower off a Chiron in what world is that needed my world I likey no but actually that thing in the wrong hands is a literal weapon of mass destruction this is not an EV either by the way it has a 208 horsepower engine that acts as a generator so it's a hybrid system there are multiple examples like this but how did we even get to this point the answer is quite simple actually technology our Tech has continued to improve since the term technology even came into existence and that's just what we are as humans you see we were born to inherit the Star Technology can't really go backwards I mean it has to continue moving forward as that's where the development leads us forwards our Tech today has become so Advanced that the fastest cars from 40 50 years ago are now considered in a way regular traffic I'm not talking about in terms of the cars themselves but more so from a performance perspective superchargers and turbochargers have improved exponentially since the 70s and the 80s and improved turbos and superchargers thus lead to improved performance this paired with the cars becoming more aerodynamic with better transmission systems better tires and in some cases cars being hybrids all of this has played a major role in making cars faster sh out to my little friend transmission here don't actually get the love they deserve and I will prove this right now by showing you two examples the 911 Turbo S the 992 generation is a standout one I am 100% sure you've seen multiple carwow drag races it's down on power compared to most of its competitors yet it can still smoke them off the line and achieves a 10. 2 qu mile time the GTR Nismo is also a good example though one thing I didn't mention and kind of on purpose is that both of these cars are quite light sure not lighter than their competition necessarily but still light nonetheless oh a dollar weight also plays a major factor in car performance I mean duh it's obvious rate is something you'll see a lot of if you look into High Performance Hybrid the reasoning is also as simple as the previous points a hybrid system requires a motor and a battery p ma which adds quite a lot of weight you're fat you'll see sedans weighing 2. 4 to 2.

5 tons easily the M5 g90 that's almost 2. 5 tons the AMG gt63s e performance that's 2. 3 tons the M5 has 717 horsepower and the AMG has 843 hybrid systems have allowed cars to reach a new threshold of power I mean if you tell anyone 20 years ago that some sedans would pack over 700 horsepower in some instances over 800 they'll think you're crazy but that is our reality today power but all of this got me wondering something else we know cars have gotten faster we know technology has advanced but my question now is what is our limit speed limits have gone up over the last few decades but still a family car that's capable of doing 160 170 180 or even 190 mph is not going to be able to stretch its leg out unless you live on the autoban so why what is the point of making these cars faster well to put it simply regulation regulations now require a car to meet certain categories and in some cases car manufacturers have to make their cars hybrids but a hybrid performance machine won't be as sought after just because it's a hybrid so to negate that they add a lot of power more horsepower has pretty much become a marketing stunt now more your car to make headlines yeah St 1500 horsepower in it and you'll get the attention you need and save a ton on Advertising hey yo what the [ __ ] but be careful you don't want to be doing a massive sin and slap a 4cylinder in a car that's had an 8 cylinder stating that the hybrid performance Tech is what your people want rather than a massive V8 so now we've sort of figured out why big performance machines have gone up in power let's try to figure out the peculiar case of the ordinary car also becoming more powerful for this I want to be as unbiased as possible so I'm going to use a car that I used to own a Mazda CX5 this car was actually surprisingly powerful with a 250 horsepower engine this is a regular car for the regular person now let's jump back around 30 years and see the regular car for the regular person then a Honda CRV from 1995 this thing had 128 horsepower which is just over half half the power of the CX-5 clearly an increase in power was not needed per se at least in this segment of cars but there is a major benefit of having more power here more power allows cars to cruise better on highways because the engine doesn't have to work as hard this is not only smoother but also more economical cars since the '90s have had more safety Tech and whatnot put in and that adds weight so cars need more power to cope with it as a result the side effect is a car that's faster I'm not complaining at all to be honest this is where I was planning on ending the video but I couldn't pass up an opportunity to show you some everyday SL unsuspecting cars that have a lot of power while also teasing my next video a luxury limousine SL sedan meant for CEOs and business peoples but also slapped with a 6.