Re: Tales of an S4

[cpalmer@dingo.webo.dg.com (Chris Palmer)]

> The thing to remember is its not how many horses you have its how much
> WEIGHT those horses are lugging around. In your case the 850 Turbo wagon
> has 15.3 lbs/hp to pull while your S4 is around 14.98 lbs/hp. You can see
> that both cars are evenly matched. Besides, maybe the Volvo driver had a
> few mods under the hood.

Your numbers are a little off here.
The 850T is significantly lighter than the S4.
The 850T is around 3400 pounds for 220hp (15.5 lb/hp), the S4 around 3700
pounds for 227hp (16.3 lb/hp).

Add this to the fact that Dorab was too lazy to downshift :-)
and the 850T is going to eat his S4 at that moment.

regards,
-- 
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