Shakspeare's possible take on "cool" muscle car gas guzzling?

Internal combustion is "...but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

"Nothing" except wasted energy.  6% of the energy in the gas guzzler gets to the road surface to propell the car.  When the tires smoke, that goes down below 3%, since it is being converted into friction.

The tire smoking is evidence of a primitive rubber/road clutch, trying in vain to adjust the drivetrain velocity to the vehicle velocity.

If you want to accelerate and drive quickly, the purely applied 80% efficient torque of an electric drivetrain beats the gas guzzling, tire smoking, furious sound of wasted energy from a Ferrari.

If it's "cool" status you value, a better test would be to cruise around in an electric Ferrari conversion, then compare the "dates" garnered, to the attention attracted by a gas guzzling Ferrari of the same design.

A large plugin hybrid logo should be permissible for this test.  And since for Ferrari-"men" (ahem!  Compensation for masculine deficiencies in other areas?) money is no object, the electric conversion should have equivalent performance to the gas guzzler.

Speed and acceleration being equal, I believe the companionship one would experience with the "green" Ferrari would be of a whole different  quality, incomparable with that of the gas guzzler groupies.

Siliconed warheads versus intrinsic beauty, an apt comparison.