The rise of electrification has taken the horsepower wars into a whole new dimension. Even a relatively small car such as the CLA now has nearly 700 hp in its new AMG version. Its bigger brother, the AMG GT 4-Door Coupe, makes more than 1,100 hp. Electric supercars and hypercars push even deeper into four-figure territory, with a few surpassing the 2,000-hp mark.
BMW explains it could also extract ludicrous amounts of power from the electric M3’s motors, but that’s not going to happen. In an interview with Bimmer Today, M boss Frank van Meel said it is technically possible to unlock a megawatt from the four motors. In fact, the proof of concept already exists, as the wild Vision Driving Experience (VDX) had somewhere in the region of 1,341 hp. However, there are drawbacks to putting this much power into a production EV.
