Isnt that statement proving what the point of your post is against. Its a little self contradicting isnt it. Just because the 350 makes so much torque your forgetting that the torque is used to get the cars ass off the line after that the horsepower is what does the work. Also most imports make there torque at a lower RPM range than you would think. While you might have 100 mor ft/lbs of toraue than the 400 hp import you have another 1000-1500lbs on top of the import. You might get a nice launch but the second the import starts to get into the higher power band the car will pull. Assuming its a vtec engine where the power band just screams from 5500-9000 rpm and the added boost from the turbo the big block domestic doesnt stand a chance. Its a thing called power to weight ratio you can make 6000hp but if the car weighs as much as a damn tank it wont have the balls to get out of its own way. Thats one reason these 400 hp civics can run 10's in the quarter but the 400 hp camaro, mustang what ever it may be can only break into the low 12's.
If you want a better comparison ive seen 2 pupose built drag cars run a fox body mustang making 1100hp and about 1000 ft/lbs of torque, get beat by 3 cars lengths by a crx with 600hp and 400ft/lbs. Granted the crx weighed less than half the weight of the mustang, the mustang had more than double the amount of torque and almost doule the HP.
You should read back this has been discussed, its been an argument about the evo and awd for about 4 pages now.
Oh yeah Dinan Jeremy is like a god when it comes to cars.
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Don't ever look at cars as just imports or domestics. Just because a car is made in a certain country doesn't mean that it is anything like another car from that country. An example of this is Mitsubishi reliability, just because they are Japanese doesn't mean that they are as reliable as a Honda or Toyota.
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