While horsepower carries the car to high top speeds, torque is mainly responsible for moving the car quickly off the line. Torque is instrumental in providing great acceleration times and winning drag ...

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There is an old adage saying that 'horsepower sells cars, torque wins races.' No, it wasn't said by a truck driver but by Carroll Shelby himself. As true as that saying is, torque doesn't do much ...

The modern era of mass-market affordable turbocharging began in the 1990s with the arrival of VW and Audi's 1.8 Turbo and 2.7 Twin-Turbo engines. For the first time, manufacturers were talking about ...

Classic muscle cars were the pinnacle of U.S. automotive engineering of the time, with their massive big-block engines producing boatloads of horsepower and torque while still being affordable ...

torque is a force. horsepower is the rate at which the engine does work. Really, all the engine's peak torque, and the RPM at which it produces it tells you is the general operating characteristics of ...