Cars are plenty fast. Even a 105mph top speed 4-cylinder 1993 Mustang can be fast in trained hands.

It's just too many untrained fools now are getting their hands on 300+ horsepower monsters, and thanks to the high price and general difficulty in finding suitable tracks to "play" on, they take it to the streets. This usually ends in a cloud of fiberglass, steel and whatever they just hit.

The ads are just that, ads. I do think it's pretty stupid to show off a sports car racing around the city though. Really, the primary customer can probably figure out it's fast on their own.

I really wish companies like Ford didn't cave in to consumer pressure with their high end cars....now you can get a Mustang Cobra R without a racing license. For the longest time, one was mandatory....no license, no purchase. That generally kept those rather fast cars in qualified hands (a VERY good thing). I also wish many companies enforced rules like that for their high-end sports cars.

It's not very expensive to get those classes (compared to these cars)....but if you can pass them all, it shows you can at least handle a sports car halfway decently. (the other side of it, is that license can be lost very easily for street infractions...so people will tend to drive nicely to keep their race licenses).

For SUVs.....all bets are off....those things are top heavy and should be driven carefully.