"That was the theory, but how does it stack up in reality?
The chart below has been constructed from actual road tests conducted by Autocar Magazine on 27 different cars ranging from a Porsche 911 to various Volkswagons. As you can see there is no appreciable relationship acceleration and the peak torque/mass of the car.
The following chart was generated from the exact same set of cars tested by Autocar Magazine, but now we are displaying the cars' power/mass figure instead. As can be seen there is a very clear relationship between the car's power/mass and its acceleration, in fact, if we know nothing more than the car's power output and its mass we will still be able to estimate it's 30 to 70mph acceleration with a high degree of accuracy, something we couldn't do from the torque figure alone.
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'99 M5 SC // '89 M3 S85 // '04 Patrol GR
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S85 er vondur mótor þó að hann sé kraftmikill...
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