360 or 318 which would you rather have???

And I think a 109 would smoke a p40 in the air. If you look up the stats, almost half of all 109 losses were on takeoff and landing because of the narrow track width of the landing gear. The engine in the Messerschmitt was true work of art and engineering.
I don't think so. look up the 325th, 97th, 57th in North Africa. P-40's had an almost 3:1 kill ratio in the MTO against mostly the Bf 109F/G. also had a superior kill ratio against the Macci Mc 202. the Russians used it with great sucsess to against the 109 in the Eastern Front. another good read would be the Palm Sunday Massacre.