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But with 3, 500 pounds of grand touring car to move, even this splendid engine direct-injection, dry-sump, a sky-high 13.5:1 compression ratio, 8, 700-rpm redline, 65-degree V12 can't hope to serve up the sensations of a track-focused machine, that distinctive corner-exiting moment when you jump into the throttle and the engine's torque hits you in the back like a bag of wet cement.
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The computer can control the throttle and measure the engine speed.
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Often it's Michael who tries to act as a throttle to Big Daddy's jet engine.
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Meanwhile, the feds' fuel-economy administrators are currently operating at a dead run trying to keep up with a host of new, highly digitized fuel-saving technologies, such as "Eco" throttle mapping and stop-start (the engine cuts out as the vehicle coasts or stops), which were practically invented to hack the EPA testing cycle.
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With the engine running, he can see on-screen how much fuel should be injected given X throttle pressure or Y coolant temperature.
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To provide some form of throttle to allow acceleration and deceleration, the vehicle's designers added the EJ200 jet engine.
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