Re: Good Question about Horsepower

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

> But my real question is here is not HOW horsepower works, but who is
> accurate?  Seems as though when my friends and I talk he is always boosting
> about this 195 Horsepower car and laugh at my 164hps car.  But his car is
> Japanese and mine is German.  So who is accurate?

Doesn't matter, take 'em both to the track and race.  Anybody can
boast/malign any spec.  What matters is when the rubber hits the road.

Need argument ammo?  Hide out one weekend, clean a few things under the
hood, and then tell them you've got 205 hp.  Or 203 to make it more
believable.

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/

82 Audi Coupe; 84 4kq; 85 Coupe GT