Did you know that Greenday’s album Dookie is 31 years old this year? So is MTV’s live Nirvana album, and Korn’s debut album (imaginatively named Korn). That’s the era I grew up in, and the two gnarliest cars during that period were the McLaren F1 and the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR. The former was meant to be the ultimate road car that eventually went racing, while the latter was a racing machine made road legal. The interesting thing about these cars is that their respective power outputs are relatively tame by modern standards. The CLK GTR Strassenversion had just over 600 horses, while the Mac had 618 hp. Today, there are sedans and SUVs that you can buy for less than $100k that have 400 hp more.
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