Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Paul Stadden)

frank_peters/Shutterstock Jerry Seinfeld once quipped, “Why will we even use the term ‘horsepower’? Is that to further humiliate horses? The space shuttle rockets have 20 million horsepower. Is there any point in still comparing it to the horses?” Yes, Jerry, it’s because kilowatts and megawatts aren’t as poetic. Gigawatts is a cool word, though, so long as you pronounce it as “jigawatts” like Doc Brown. Still, horsepower has a superb ring to it, and it’s just more fun to say that a Koenigsegg One:1 has 1,341 mighty steeds, or an Airbus A380 has a complete of 300,000 stallions powering its…