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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: One Horsepower Edition
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Jeff Puthuff
(IC: employee)
Published: May 13th, 2009
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Jeff Puthuff
Early 30s California guy driving a 97 Infiniti I30. Past cars: 90 Cavalier, 82 Skylark, 78 Courier, 61 Beetle.
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Published May 13th, 2009 11:31 AM
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I read somewhere that 1 hp is actually equivalent to one-and-a-half horses...anyone care to confirm or deny? (ew...half a horse) ...in which case, this is a .66 hp vehicle. Let me get my xB and I'll race it! I'm feeling lucky!
yankinwaoz: I'm on the floor! +1
Stupid, stupid money. I worked with horses for years, and let me tell you, this is tame. Check out the transport semi's sometime, some of them cost significantly more than a top of the line RV. Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
IIRC this was developed and is built by Prodrive (the owners of Aston Martin). As for horsepower, it's more like 1 horse generating 7hp at peak performance, over a short period of time. I could be wrong - long time ago since I was reading about it.