User blog comment:Void Samukai/Worst Heavy Cruiser WW2/@comment-24484083-20151023020059/@comment-27822411-20151023021635

Compare to her succedor the Aoba, she was about the same size, and just as fast. Really, by the end of the modernisations, there was no real different between the Aoba and Furutaka class cruisers.

As for slow, by that same logic, the Pensacolas were slow ass, because they could only do 32.5 knots, compare to Furutaka's 34.5.