But remember ladies, "seeming slow" isn't anything to do with how much power you have got (here we go again) it is all about how much torque you have, how flat the torque curve is and where it hits. Torque is tractive effort, how hastily an engine moves something (wheels in our case)
This is why a GPX with 150 kw (about 100 atw) is destroyed by an old rex that is sitting around 95 kw atw (old rex's lost around 40% through parasitic drivetrain loss). It is the mountain of torque that makes the difference. It is obviously also the reason that turbocharged cars (road cars anyways) always punch well above their weight class litre for litre.
More here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque
And here -> http://www.car-videos.net/articles/hors ... torque.asp a very good explanation in motoring terms
I find it interesting and funny when talking to the "boy racer" fraternity round here and they ask about power etc, I tell them, they have more, we race, they complain cos they have more power but I still won, then I ask them how much torque they are producing and they just lgo
The industry and media hype it right up, and the general public think that their GT Commonwhore 295 with almost 300 kw is the bees knees, then complain when destroyed by Jappers with half the power (but mountains more torque)
In simplistic terms, hp (or kw) = sustained speed (like hitting a hill at 100 kph and being able to keep that speed), torque = acceleration. Drag racing = quickest acceleration, traffic light racing = quickest acceleration.
It is only in motorsport that I can honestly see power mean more than torque (normal driving of course, not talking about towing here)
It's a complicated subject, and this is my understanding of it. Feel free to correct me if something I have said is fundamentally flawed
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