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 ...

Today’s horses must be Clydesdale-class, at least when compared to the horses we were saddling up back in the 1960s and early ’70s. How else can you explain the real-world performance figures of ...

Most features of vehicles have horsepower and torque added to their description to inform buyers about the engine’s power. However, you might be oblivious to the difference between horsepower and ...

What do you brag about when you talk about your high-performance car? Most likely, you’ll talk about the engine displacement, number of cylinders, and the overall horsepower. Torque tends to take a ...

You can hardly talk about cars without talking about horsepower. It's one of the most prominent numbers in automotive advertising, inMotorTrendstories, and during which-car-is-better arguments. Yet ...

The practice of measuring a car engine's overall strength in horsepower dates all the way back to 18th-century Scotland, when James Watt invented the steam engine and devised a metric to measure its ...

Some of the marine racing R/C nitro engines can twist out 5 hp from 11cc. It's comical that the tuned pipe is usually physically larger than the engine. UPFRONT Warning - I'm not covering everything..

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