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Originally Posted by BMRLVR
P.S.: The whole torque gets you moving and horsepower wins races crap is just that.... CRAP! You can't have horsepower without torque. Horsepower is just math to express force (i.e.: TORQUE) delivered over time.
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Although I firmly believe that power (and specifically power to the wheels divided by weight) completely trumps torque as the relevant output to measure a car by, simply because torque is more or less meaningless without knowledge of the gearing, there is some empirical truth to the benefits of high crank torque engines benefits at lower speeds and lower rpms. There is also a benefit to such engines for lazy driving (i.e. wrong gear) performance contests. Whatever floats ones boat...
Crap expressions such as this typically contain a shred of truth but also serve to foster an incorrect/incomplete view of a technical/engineering/physics topic.