- You love going fast but you hate spending money.
I can relate.
Today we're gonna talk about HPPD.
Hrsprs per dollar.
More specifically,
I'm gonna tell you which new cars you can buy today
with the most horsepower
for the least amount of the dollars.
And I'm gonna let you guys know.
While we were putting together this list
we actually learned about how car companies
were able to make these cars
with really good horsepower for so cheap.
So we're learning together
and this show is called--
- [Annoucncer] "D-List".
So before we get started,
in order to prove what great values
the cars on this list are,
I'm gonna hit you with the dollar to horsepower
of a really good super car.
Let's take the McLaren 765LT.
It's got a four-liter V8 making 755 horsepower.
Now that's great,
but here's the thing.
The McLaren costs $358,000.
If we divide the price of the car
by the amount of horsepower it has,
it turns out that you're paying $474
for every horsepower.
And just so we get it out of the way,
we average cost
for a recreational horse in America is $3,000.
So already, we've already decided
that cars are a much better value for power than horses.
We're only 35 seconds into the video.
- [Announcer] Number 11.
Toyota 86.
- I know you're out there and you're saying
"James, I thought this was a list of rad powerful cars.
"And the 86 is famously underpowered."
I know but hear me out.
This car is actually an insane good value turns out
when you really start to think about it.
Now the 86 is powered by a naturally aspirated
Subaru-designed dual overhead cam flat-4
with an injection system that developed by Toyota
just for this car.
That combination produced a solid 205 horsepower
which is not bad for a car
that weighs less than 3,000 pounds.
With a starting price of around 27 grand
the 86 has a dollars per horsepower figure
of $132 per horsepower.
Now if you can share a platform
you can significantly reduce the development cost.
That allows them to pass on the savings to you.
- [Announcer] Number 10.
Corvette C8.
- The eighth gen Corvette is
the hottest drop to come out of Detroit
in this whole century.
Finally, a Corvette with a mid engine
rear-wheel drive layout.
The car some people are calling a Ferrari killer
has a new version of the LT2 V8.
Its 6.2-liter displacement produces
an astounding 490 hrsprs.
I got to remind you guys
this is in the base, base, base model, model, model.
There's a bunch of other really, really cools ones
coming out very soon.
That awesome output and the almost unbelievable price
of $59,000 give the C8 Corvette
a figure orf $122 per horsepower.
What's amazing here
is that despite having to develop
an entirely mid engine platform,
Chevrolet had managed to keep the price
right, absurdly low.
So how did they do that?
Well, the C8 platform will be used
in an expanding future lineup.
That way they can spread the development costs
across not only the current models but future ones
and offset the cost to the buyers now.
There's even rumors that Chevrolet
could do what Ford did with the Mustang badge
and develop the Corvette badge as its very own brand,
with a Corvette sedan and SUV.
Which I really honestly hope that they
do not do.
What is a pirate's favorite car?
- [Announcer] Number nine.
Civic Type R.
- For the current Civic Type R,
which Honda launched in 2017,
they used the platform from the 10th generation Civic.
And that's the beauty of making
all hot hopped up versions of an existing model.
And Honda has been doing this really, really well
for as long as I can remember.
Making super revvy,
super fun engines is also Honda is very good at.
So for this generation of Type R,
they just used the engine from the last one.
Easy, boom, done.
If it ain't broke don't frickin' fix it.
(dog barking)
Hi.
306 horsepower in a hatchback is amazing,
especially when it costs about $36,000.
If you do that math, for all math boys out there,
that's 122 bones per hrspr.
And besides,
for generations the Civic Type R
has been known as one of the best driver's cars available.
I've driven one and I absolutely loved it.
More than any other care than I've been allowed to drive,
this thing felt like a frickin' video game.
It is a really, really good car.
And apparently a ton of people agree with me
'cause the demand for these things is so insane
that people regularly pay over MSRP to get one.
That make's this boy's value even better.
- [Announcer] Number eight.
Hyundai Veloster N.
- This is Nolan's favorite non-Dodge car.
The Veloster N has been winning awards
and changing the way that people think about Hyundai's
since it dropped in 2019.
This beast from the east with three doors
started life as an only kind of sporty
weird-looking but fun-looking economy hatchback,
before being tuned by Hyundai's in-house performance brand N
headed up by none other than the father
of the BMW M car, Albert Biermann.
Now Uncle Al brought a load of BMW M car insight
to the Veloster.
First he said
that the car had cost less than 30 grand,
which it does.
It's $29,500.
Second, Biermann and the N division
but a huge focus not just on raw power,
but on the chassis and the handling.
The results are plain to see,
with the Veloster N performance able to lay down
its 275 hrsprs and pull from zero to 60 in 5.5 seconds.
That is .1 seconds slower than a Civic Type R
and the Civic Type R costs $6,000 more than that.
That's smart.
The Veloster N has been described as
the antidote to boring modern cars
by none other than me.
And with a per horsepower price of $107 per hrsprs,
it's a straight up steal.
- [Announcer] Number seven.
Camaro ZL1.
- The Chevy Camaro ZL1 has 650 hrsprs.
And it costs 63,195 doll hairs.
That's only $97 per hrspr.
And just so you guys know,
this isn't the only Camaro on the list.
There's a couple more and one of them
is gonna surprise the heck out of you,
and it surprised the heck out of me.
The ZL1 raises a larger point.
There are two distinct groups of cars emerging.
Cars that have an insane amount of horsepower
for their $60,000-ish price tag
and cars that have modest horsepower
but a lot less cost.
Either way, from now on expect to see
a ton of good old American muscle.
- [Announcer] Number six.
Ford Mustang Shelby GT500.
- There's really no other way to say this.
This is the quickest factory Mustang ever built.
No expense has been spared
in taking the stock Mustang,
which itself is an awesome car,
and then turning it up to freaking 11.
Freak that, dude,
they turned it up to 12!
The supercharged version of the 5.2-liter Mustang V8
revs to 7,500 RPM and puts its power down
through a seven-speed dual clutch automatic.
These are words that we never thought we'd be saying
about a factory Mustang.
Now just like the Camaro ZL1 that we mentioned before.
This isn't the highest Mustang on the list,
but it still deserves a place because
it is the highest horsepower vehicle on this list.
How much horsepower?
How many hrsprs?
760, dude.
And with a price of $72,900
that means that you can buy 760 hrsprs for $95 each.
- [Announcer] Number five.
Nissan 370 Z.
Now this is the last non-American car on this list.
Something that I'm kind of proud of honestly.
I mean, yeah.
But it's also a car that I really, really, really like.
It's just an awesome car.
332 horsepower from a legandary V6.
A perfectly balanced chassis.
Form the hairpin to the sweeper to the straightaway,
nothing else feels like a Z.
Those are not my words.
That is from Nissan's website.
These are my words starting now.
The Nissan 370 Z is truly a legend.
I mean, literally, they've been making this car 11 years,
basically without changing anything.
And you might think that this is another case
of a car company sharing components across its fleet.
It makes sense to assume
that the parts from the 370 Z
were carried across from its older sister,
the 350 Z.
But you're wrong.
Almost every part for the 370 Z
was designed new specifically for that car.
I'm talking new aluminum paneling,
new aluminum sub frames,
new aluminum allow engine cradle (murmuring).
I could go on but this is is a freaking YouTube video,
not a gosh darn movie. (applause)
With all that new stuff it's got to be expensive, right?
Wrong, dead wrong!
The 370 Z only costs about 30 grand.
Divide that by 332 hrsprs and that's $90 per horse.
That's a freaking steal.
That's old west freights.
- [Announcer] Number four.
Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat.
- Dodge has always defined themselves
by squeezing horsepower out of cars
and selling them for cheap.
And recently the quality of the interiors and stuff
have come up to rival cars from Europe and Asia.
2020 is a good time to be a MOPAR guy
because as we all know,
MOPAR stands for more power, baby!
Actually it stands for Motor Parts.
There are, in fact, 3 models in the Challenger lineup
that cost more than the SRT Hellcat.
The Widebody, the Redeye, and the Redeye Widebody.
Problem is none of them have
a better dollar to horsepower figure
than the SRT Hellcat,
which costs $60,695.
And it has a ridiculous 717 hrspr.
That's just $84 per hrspower.
And it's not as if the Hellcat is missing out
on tons of features that the models above it are getting.
It still comes with Bilstein adaptive dampers,
six piston Brembos up front and four pistons in the rear,
and a top speed of 199 miles per.
That's the same as the Mercedes CLK GTR.
That's faster than a Ferrari F50.
That is why you buy a Dodge.
And this isn't even the fastest cheapest car Dodge offers.
It's the same story with the Charger family
which is why the next car is also a Dodge.
- [Announcer] Number three.
Dodge Charger Scat Pack.
- The Charger R/T Scat Pack may not be the quickest
or most expensive Charger you can buy.
But when you do the math, 'cause I'm a math boy,
you see that it is absolutely the best value
and you're still getting 485 hrsprs to play with
for just $40,000.
That's $83 per hrspr.
And you want to know something?
All my Scat Pack bros are out there
getting frickin' hated on day and frickin' night
and I'm sick and tired of it.
The Scat Pack is an awesome package
for an already really, really cool car.
So next time you try and clown on your neighbor
for buying a Scat Pack instead of the Hellcat, think again.
I don't even care that scat means poo poo
and it was well known that scat meant poo poo
before Dodge named a car after it again.
Bravo, Dodge.
Bravo.
- [Announcer] Number two,
a three-way tie.
This is amazing and perfect and awesome
and just so frickin' American.
We actually have a three way tie for second place
from the three companies
you'd expect to tie in a situation like this
what's interesting is how differently
each of them of went about getting a car
with this dollar to horse power figure.
Starting with the cheapest to buy--
- [Announcer] Chevy Camaro V6.
- The sixth gen Camaro was released in 2016
and that same year won
Motor Trend's annual Car of the Year Award,
and with good reason.
Over four years Chevy has messed with
and refined the Camaro and it's lineup of engines
from the tiny little cute boy two-liter turbo four cylinder
right up to the roaring 6.2-liter LT4 V8.
That thing'll make 650 hrsprs.
But the one that comes in second place tied
is the Camaro V6.
It puts out 335 horsepower which,
let's be honest,
is more than enough or go have some fun.
I mean that like what Hi Car has essentially.
You can just go out
and do some skiddy boys with the pals after class,
and with a price tag of 27 grand,
that's only $80 dollars per hrspr.
That's right, a Camaro with a V6
is technically a better value than a Hellcat.
I'm as shocked as you are.
Next up in this three way tie for second--
- [Announcer] Ford Mustang.
- Now this Mustang
has a much higher price tag than the Camaro.
It's 37 grand which is $10,000 more than the V6 Camaro.
However, for that price Ford is giving you 460 hrsprs.
That gives you the same $80 per hrspr figure.
So I guess it all comes down to personal preference.
You want to save some money and make a little power
or you want to spend a little bit more money
and get some more power.
- [Announcer] Dodge Challenger Scat Pack.
- Rounding out our tie for second
is the Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack.
It has 485 hrsprs and costs $39,000.
Exactly the same as the Ford and Chevy
which you may have guessed if you know what a tie means.
All three American brands,
the literal big three all represented
in the second place mark,
tied with $80 per hrspr.
But none of that matters.
Because slipping in under the radar,
coming at number one is this.
- [Announcer] Number one.
Chevy Camaro LT1.
- The Camaro SS will cost you over $40,000.
The Camaro V6 that we just talked about, $26,000.
The new for 2020 LT1 spec
comes in around the middle at $34,995
and truly offers,
in my opinion the best of both worlds.
If you take the Camaro V6's spec,
it's lack of leather interior,
it's lack of adjustable ride height,
and added the V8 from the SS,
then you get the LT1.
455 hrsprs
only costs you $35,000.
That's $76 dollars per hrspr.
And honestly,
if I'm being honest, which I'm always frickin' honest,
I never frickin' lie.
I'm like Abraham dang Lincoln over here,
I've always like a no frills car.
My Golf is a Golf CL.
It's the lowest option Golf available.
I think that every manufacturer
should offer an option like this.
Give us the big boy engine without all the other crap.
I would love that.
And even though it has basic options,
the LT1 is the opposite of basic.
It's fun as hell.
It may lack the interior refinements
that we're becoming accustomed to,
but it's still a great car to be in.
Plus it more than makes up for any deficits
through its fantastic driving dynamics
and its impressive,
more than impressive straight line speed.
The LT1 is the closes thing
to putting a saddle on a V8
without having to break out your chaps.
And it costs $76 per horsepower.
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