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Originally Posted by Otago
TT is a good car, powerful engine (cant imagine how the engineers get so much power from a v4 turbo!), nice interior.
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With superchargers and turbochargers, one can make huge horsepower using really small displacement, and they certainly have done that in racing for many years.
The difference is that race engines only have to finish one race and they are torn apart and rebuilt. I guess the new F1 rules require a power plant to survive 5 races, or something like that.
By for a normal car that needs to provide the owner with many reliable miles, why force so much horsepower from a small power plant. I'll bet a normally aspirated version of that engine probably couldn't even move the car away from a stop light. And they complain about turbo lag - it's no wonder.