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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    My BMW has 300Nm. A fine car and you can have a good time in the twsities.

    The Mini had 220Nm. An absolute hoot to drive.

    Torque alone means nothing.
    My thoughs also, torque alone is a truck. I was just showing Kitdy that ppl that buy diesels also do it for "sport" reasons.
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    Quote Originally Posted by henk4 View Post
    there is a thread on this forum about torque and power (have to look it up), our (ex) member Hightower had very pronounced views about the uselessness of torque as a means to express the performance potential of a car.
    I don't always agree with the way he presents his view, but for the most part he was correct in that torque by itself is useless as measure of vehicle performance, specifically acceleration and speed.

    To measure these quantities using torque you also need to know what speed (i.e. RPM, gearing, tire size, etc) the torque is generated at. Since, it can be cumbersome to try to deal with multiple parameter simultaneously someone one came up with a way to combine all these parameters into one, and it was called it...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alastor View Post
    I don't always agree with the way he presents his view, but for the most part he was correct in that torque by itself is useless as measure of vehicle performance, specifically acceleration and speed.

    To measure these quantities using torque you also need to know what speed (i.e. RPM, gearing, tire size, etc) the torque is generated at. Since, it can be cumbersome to try to deal with multiple parameter simultaneously someone one came up with a way to combine all these parameters into one, and it was called it...

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    power doesn't include info on tires, gear, weight, aero...

    all those are just numbers. all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by f6fhellcat13 View Post
    Mclaren got no constructor points last year and they were driving a ferrari
    ****ing pwnt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeonOfTheDead View Post
    power doesn't include info on tires, gear, weight, aero...

    all those are just numbers. all.
    And... Here we go again!!!
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    clutch and transmissions fail though, with torque i mean
    it was actually me who killed vasilli zaitsev, heinz thorwald, carlos hatchcock, and simo hayha

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    Tork?
    Torque :

    Edit: moar tork:
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    Legos have no torx...
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    universe tork
    it was actually me who killed vasilli zaitsev, heinz thorwald, carlos hatchcock, and simo hayha

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quiggs View Post
    Legos have no torx...
    Legos have more torkz than you.
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    This thread is about a unit of measurement.

    Were you bored Fiset?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Canuck View Post
    This thread is about a unit of measurement.

    Were you bored Fiset?
    I was having an argument with Cameron and decided to ask the UCP community what was their opinions. Either horsepower or torque.

    It's by no means a "gay" thread as you putted in nicely on MSN.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fisetdavid26 View Post
    I was having an argument with Cameron and decided to ask the UCP community what was their opinions. Either horsepower or torque.

    It's by no means a "gay" thread as you putted in nicely on MSN.
    And why not a good dose of both?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    And why not a good dose of both?
    Cause it's a fiset thread? Duh.

    Look at the second post, confirmed lame.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    And why not a good dose of both?
    Because this was an argument with Cameron. I couldn't let him win.

    In reality I'm impartial to both, but don't tell him.
    Reginald *IB4R* says:
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    Quote Originally Posted by fisetdavid26 View Post
    Because this was an argument with Cameron. I couldn't let him win.

    In reality I'm impartial to both, but don't tell him.
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