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I always find these postings of interest, and tend to notice that the empthasis is mainly on generating bhp and less so torque, I've always basically understood it as while torque measures the turning force produced by a vehicle's engine and the engine's ability to perform work, horsepower measures how fast the engine can perform the work. Therefore, basically high torque makes an engine accelerate faster from a stop, and high horsepower makes for higher top speed.

WIth higher revs introducing greater stress and wear on an engine, I've always thought it was important to keep an engine in its highest torgue band at the lowest revs possible, in fact even short shifting to keep it there, and therefore with an eye to engine longevity.the pursuit of acceleration was having the greatest torque band at the lowest possible revs,.Having very high top speeds is potentially academic on public road use.

My CX PLus Four has 20% more torque than the manual, it has the same bhp and final drive ratio and therefore same top speed, but mine has a quicker 0 to 60 speed, and in gear acceleration, I know helped by an auto but it also has 2 more gears to change compared to the manual. You can feel the difference in the power and its delivery when compared to the manual.