US is just now using smaller engines pulling horsepower, cause we are just now making the cars lighter, hp does not move mass, torque does, and where as with turbos you can pull 300hp out of a V6, you cant get the torques, so its has always been more displacement, bigger the engine, more torque.

and just one comment about american cars being scary, it is because of torque that you feel out of control, but torque is power and control is just an illusion. More power, the scarier the ride is goin to get.

Imagine this, I used to race Dirt Track, southern modified, 2000lb cars, 500hp riding on extremely slick dirt that almost mud 25 people on a 1/4mile long oval track where over half the time you are sideways and within 2 ft of each other, the scariest experience of my life every time I was out there, but the most fun I have ever had.