Sentences with phrase «rpm in the road car»
«We have an F1 engine that is used to idling at 4500rpm, now idling at 1100rpm; it still revs to 11,000 rpm in the road car.
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I figure there's no point in using a minivan to challenge a stock car on a road course if you can't quantify your average rpm afterward.
Test cars from tuners often come shackled to a company engineer, a professional apologist who's constantly tweaking software and explaining why that squirrel in the road back in Boise caused magnetic interference that's killing the torque curve under 3000 rpm.
Once you pass 3000 rpm the turbo kicks in and you're off like a gunshot, while the awd sticks the car to the road like glue.
As we roared over some favorite roads in the hills, the transmission's Sport mode kept the engine speed up around 4,000 rpm, putting a good amount of the car's power to the ground.
Torque is plentiful, and comes in at a fairly low rpm point, making it an easy car to manhandle around town and on country roads.