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OT:VW Toureg Pulls B747



On 10:09 pm 11/30/06 "LEF" <rocco16@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>    That would solely depend on the race, wouldn't it?  Like a
> tractor-pull?  They depend on torque to save the day, not hp.  And to
> fit within your so far narrow rules, those are sanctioned. Sanctioned
> they are, races they are not.  That's why they're called tractor PULLS
> and not tractor RACES.   Races are determined by who gets to the finish
> first, not who pulls the most weight.

 
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>   More correctly, you won't win many races with steam engines. 
> That's because they don't make any horsepower, they make lots of
> torque.  :)  (You just proved my point.)  TDIs on the other hand, as
> Cathy has mentioned, can and do win races.  Otherwise, Audi would not
> see fit to build their open-cockpit racers with a badass TDI.  And the
> TDIs are masters of -torque-.  And torque x rpm = horsepower.  (That's
> the relationship I was referring to.) 


Ummm, yeah, I knew that :P

No car wins races on torque
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> "horsepower".
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Now this is just getting silly, of course you need a combo of rpm and
torque to make horsepower, and as I said, for a daily I'd just as soon have
that torque in an rpm range where I can use it readily. And for raw speed,
you can do pretty well by shaving weight too....as for the driver winning
the race?...oh hell, this is like the table at lunch, I've lost track of
what we were even discussing. :)
Cathy 

>    The issue here isn't whether diesels are fast or slow, the issue
> is whether high torque or high horsepower is required to prevail in a
> speed contest.  

PS: Oh! Is that what we were discussing? I thought it was "a race" ;P