What makes our engines so underpowered?, Compaired to JDM's and other countries? Options

[Rjb23]

What is it that causes our engines to be so under powered? Is it the ECU's, or what?

[Jabberwock]

Well the matrix is pretty good for toyota...hehe maybe the caldina has a chance in the US..hehe?

Honestly 94-99 did have a lot more high powered cars than now.
Here is a list of cars that I think are better than cars now.

Nissan 300ZX...Twin Turbo and can be modded to be faster than the 350Z
Nissan Silvia...not really a US car but who doesn't have a SR20DET in their
Toyota Supra...nuff said
Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX....the newer generation just can't compare
Mitsubishi 3000GT...can you say VR...
Mazda RX-7...RX-8 isn't as good and the RX-7 TT ROTARY!

6GC out there today...man GT-4 ST205 just kicks A$$!!! WRX can't compare except for the STI...RSX has no chance....350Z I would rather have the GT4.

But you are probably comparing to the US SPECS hehe...

However the output of 94-99 was much greater than now. 300ZX VS. 350Z, Supra VS. ? Eclipse GSX VS. Eclipse GT 3000GT vs. EVO(not a good comparison though) RX-7 VS. RX-8

You get the point but I am sure that the newer ones would not easily beat the older models. 94-99 was great for performance but sucked for American 6GC's.

Compare those and you will notice the drop in horsepower but mainly because of the disappearence of turbos.

But you have to understand that the reason TOYOTA didn't have much of a line in 94-99 is that the supra was doing great for high performance, LEXUS was doing great for luxury, and toyota had the moset sales for any car....camry.


Now if you compare cars worldwide....6GC's were just on the top of performance with the Beams and GT-4's.