Dude, I have a IS300, so if you know about Supras you know where the engine comes from, couple with the IS300 being far lighter than supra (stock).
Yes, the Supra engine can handle 500 HP easy, with really no mods to the engine. And yes, 700 rwhp and upwards is easy, but engine longevity suffers greatly, and how many rebuilds.
Plus a (brand new) Viper is a stock track car, a 700 HP Supra is not, meaning the Viper can handle a curve (depending on the driver) whereas a 700 HP Supra cannot, it is only good in a straight line. What you fail to understand, is "What is power if there is no control", Sure a 1200 HP SUpra could probably beat Bugatti Veyron off the line, but when it get curvy, that Supra will lose. Point is a stock Viper or said Veyron has 100's of test miles on track, and tons of engineers, plus millions of dollars of research put into chassis and engine development. The 700 HP Supra does not, it does not have 700 reliable horses
That being said, obvious whatever amount of HP that the Hogan's Supra had, he couldn't control it, just like the idiot that had a Enzo and was racing his own SLR and crashed the Enzo earlier this year.
Just because one is a aficionado, doesn't mean one can drive, as one Ferrari test drive once said, "It is hard to tell the Sultan of Brunei that he can't drive"
Hey, I was just talking about making power and straightline racing with the car, who cares about curves. If I was going to race around the track I would get either a M3 CSL, GT3, or even a C6 Z06. Screw the veyron or the viper.
Plus I think the viper he was racing wasn't stock either so I doubt it could handle any curves. A lot of the vipers are making 800 to 1200rwhp as well (Hennessey?
) but I'm only speculating as well.
