[s-cars] NAC: 997 & 911 GT3

[Robert Rossato]

It's easy.  Porsche the engineering company wasn't reading the ad copy.
Some talking head from an ad agency was.  He probably read a "-" as a
"/" and no one at the ad agency was smart enough to know the difference.
Obviously the engineering dept of Porsche doesn't get to review ads.  

However, if you go to the General Admission link, which has no voice
over, you'll see the actual text and here at least, it's shown as 295
lb.-ft.  And note the proper usage of "lb-ft" instead of the ubiquitous
erroneous usage of "ft-lbs".  While it is a multiplication, and
therefore the numerical resultant is the same, the former denotes Torque
and the latter denotes Work.  The two are not the same.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Scott
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 1:39 PM
> To: s-car-list
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC: 997 & 911 GT3
> 
> 
> There is a major screw up in this video.  When they get to the year 
> 1990, they mention that the turbo " delivers 295 pounds per foot of 
> torque."  How does an engineering company like Porsche make  
> the mistake 
> of misreading torque as "pounds per foot?"  The announcer obviously 
> knows nothing about cars or engineering.
> Jerry
> 
> matt ludwig wrote:
> 
> >wow......
> >
> >http://www.porsche.com/all/masterwerk/usa.aspx
> >an awesome summation (and glorification) of the turbo
> >
> >http://www22.porsche.com/all/originmotorsport/usa.aspx
> >a great rich-media display of what we would like to hope to sit in,  
> >er- hope Paul K. can sit in and tell us about in detail.....
> >
> >
> >matt ludwig.
> >1995.5 S6 Avant
> >Lima, Peru