What do you guys reckon the power figure will be for the cars of the Japanese "gentlemen's agreement?"
Cars like Supra’s, Skyline’s, RX-7’s, Evo’s and Impreza’s are all capped at 280PS (~275BHP) because of the Gentlemen’s Agreement. So, if they abolished that rule, how much power do you think you’d those cars would come out of the factories with?
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These cars actually had more power, they were just advertised as “276hp”. The Supra and the GTR actually made about 330hp. Not sure about the others though.
EDIT: Found this articlehttp://m.caranddriver.com/news/japan-dumps-276-hp-pact-car-news
Think of it this way, 4 cylinder turbo from a evo, make the “same” power as a 6 cylinder twin turbo (supra and r34). Therefore significantly higher amounts power is possible, both the 2j and the rb are the strongest 6 cylinder blocks out of japan, if there was no “gentlemen’s agreement” they could possibly produce around 300-350 hp,
*They actually do produce 300-350 hp, sometimes much more.
idk why they even had this stupid “agreement” to begin with….like, hey lets all make different cars and max out at the same power outputs ( •_•)
It was to encourage making cars faster using means other than put a massive bloody engine in it.