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Originally Posted by TurboM
please feel free to elaborate.
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At speeds above 150mph nearly all of your power goes to overcome wind resistance. This is explained reasonably well in an old TG episode (no time to look it up) where James May tries to explain why the Veyron needs so much power to get to its top speed.
The faster you go, the thicker the air feels and the more power you need to push your given shape (fixed Cd) through that "thicker" air.
Anyhow, the 505hp, similarly sized and shaped Giulia claims 190. My 480hp 997.1TT didn't quite crack 200mph either (and manual P-cars tend to be geared to produce peak hp at claimed top speed).
So just comparing those two bits of data I would say no.