- 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. (rock music) Buff horses shirt, dontnutmedia.com. Go get yours today. Thank you guys so much for watching this episode of "The D-List". If this is your first Donut
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(old western music)
The Canadian Nissan Micra would be between the ZL1 and GT500. And that is before converting it to USD.
$10,488/109HP=$96/hp
I was trying to give Donut a little bit of credit, until I watched 15 seconds of this video.
Regardless:
11.Toyota 86 ($132/Hp)
10.C8 Corvette ($122/HP)
09.Civic Type R ($121/HP)
08.Veloster N ($107/HP)
07.Camaro ZL1 ($97/HP)
06.Mustang Shelby GT500 ($95/HP)
05.370Z ($90/HP)
04.Challenger Hellcat ($84/HP)
03.Charger Scatpack ($83/HP)
02.Camaro V6/Mustang GT/Challenger Scatpack ($80/HP)
01.Camaro LT1 ($76/HP)
I mean, this is based off MSRP numbers right? So in reality, depending on the car, you're actually spending more than this list. Some of us got lucky, others will not.
Always heard about power to weight ratio.
Never thought it could be money to power ratio!!
Interesting
The Camry TRD has 301 hp for $31,170, i.e. $103,55/HP.