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I believe the article you are referring to was the December 2001 edition of Motortrend Magazine in the "Car of the year" article. As a P5 owner I would say that there was probably some tester error in the numbers so I would take them with a grain of salt. I'm sure the MP3 could outperform...

tritonheat1, Wow, we're brainless boneheads, OK... This is why I never post on these forums. Anyway, you are right gear ratios are very important in the top speed. I didn't see anyone on the forums disagree with that. Gear ratios will determine your horse power at a given speed. Have you...

Higher drag is bad (Lower top speed, some affect on acceleration).

I studied electrical engineering (it wasn't 12 years it was actualy only 5 but felt like 12).

To join this fun and exciting debate initialRes is completely correct, unless of course the laws of physics don't apply to certain cars. Physics 101 A running car will have two major forces acting on them. One is from the torque at the wheels (directly related to HP). The other is the force...