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| Know Your Car : The Horsepower Concept |
A car is considered to be "high performance" if it has a lot of power relative to the weight of the car. This makes sense - the more weight you have, the more power it takes to accelerate it. For a given amount of power you want to minimize the weight in order to maximize the acceleration.
If you study the peak horsepower and the weight of the car (through the power-to-weight ratio i.e. peak horsepower divided by the weight) vis-a-vis the number of seconds the car takes to accelerate from zero to 60 mph, you will find a consistent trend. There is a very definite correlation between the power-to-weight ratio and the 0-60 time - the higher the ratio the quicker the car.
So if you want a fast car, you want to make sure that it has a good power-to-weight ratio. You want lots of power and light weight. The first place to start is by cleaning out your trunk!
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