Rednecks care about 1/4 mile times //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Hah but aside from that, the S2000 even in stock form is considered an amazing track car, just lacking in power needed in between the twists. Put a set of R-compounds on that thing and with the power it has and I'm pretty sure it'll beast it on the track. The car has been autocrossed, and taken to road courses, and the 1/4 mile. It's seen it all and held up wonderfully.
How are those numbers not impressive? That is 250 hp per liter. For a vette to reproduce those numbers it would have to be pushing about 1500 hp to the WHEELS. Remember, its to the WHEELS, not the flywheel. That means at about 520 rwhp, thats 600+ flywheel hp, and at 600 rwhp, its **** near 700 flywheel.
As for the fuel, you think hes riding around on high boost all day long? It's not horrible on fuel. Of course once he is on high boost, and giving it full throttle, it eats fuel. You can't even argue that a v8 engine sips fuel when you're hard on the gas. Once you get up into high horsepower numbers, theres a very small difference between how much fuel you are using at full throttle in one car vs another.