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Originally Posted by 7thGear
As I said in a post a couple of months ago (which was ignored), horsepower alone tells you NOTHING about a car's performance. Acceleration and top speed depend on both horsepower and GEARING. One reason to raise horsepower (and torque) is so that gearing can be raised in such a way that increases fuel effiency and lowers emissions without sacrificing performance characteristics. Those are the things that manufacturers are most focused on these days.
So it doesn't surprise me one bit that the performance remains the same. Even if efficiency also remains the same, the higher HP number helps to get people like you fanboys excited to buy the car. And didn't Mercedes just increase HP in the AMG GLC series? German car brands are constantly watching each other.
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Originally Posted by sikotic
0-60 time was updated from 4.6 to 4.4 it looks like
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LOL, sorry to break it to you 7thGear but all things equal when you raise hp that acceleration will decrease
It doesn't surprise me one bit that performance is better.