There's a nod to eco-friendliness with relatively low emissions, but the hybrid component mostly powers a KERS system that fills out the few weak points in the torque band.
It would be painful to read, for example, about the principals of torque in a mom blogger column.
In the car torque is limited electronically to 1, 100 Nm (811 lb-ft).
The bass line kicked in with 420 lb ft of torque and we were passing drivers in no time.
Or would you more likely grow weary of the C30 Polestar, with its daily experiments in turbo'ed torque-steer, its girlie clutch, and its wildly over-assisted steering, as numb as a well-digger's bottom?
Much like a mechanical limited-slip differential, torque vectoring subtly pulses the brake of the inside front wheel in a corner, directing more torque to the outside wheel, actually helping bend the car into a corner.
The signature piece in this car is the all-wheel-drive system, which can shunt most of the engine torque to the rear wheels as necessary and will direct more torque to the outside rear wheel in a corner to help null out understeer.
Something like KERS is going to be needed in road cars to boost their torque temporarily for climbing hills and overtaking safely.
The rotors turn in opposite directions to cancel out torque, the twisting action which requires conventional helicopters to use a tail rotor a hazardous appendage.
The instant, silent torque that pushes you back in your seat has to felt to be believed.
At the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, GKN unveiled its new electronic torque-management system--think of it as artificial intelligence for the driveline.
But few people opt for the base engines in big pickups, because they actually need the torque for towing or carting.
The torque indicator turned out to be faulty in the 2000 prototype.
Its specs are mind-blowing: 577 horsepower, 590 pound-feet of torque, 0 to 60 miles per hour in 3.6 seconds.
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Although it only has 15 hp more than the gasoline 6.2-liter V8 also offered in the F-350, it has almost double the torque, at an impressive 800 lb.
Essentially, the only major change added in by Sprint and Kyocera is Eco Mode, a power management system on the Torque that blocks background data connections for nonessential apps.
The E63 AMG S-Model, available as both sedan and wagon, has 27 more horsepower and 59 pound-feet more torque than the base E63 AMG, which only comes as a sedan in the United States.
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The Torque packs a lot of average features that would likely put it somewhere in the mid-range (we haven't been given pricing yet), but it's definitely not going to win any beauty awards -- it's still a Direct Connect device, after all.
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With 406 pound-feet of torque and eight forward gears, the diesel chortles and snorts to 60 mph in 7.2 seconds, a couple of ticks quicker than the V6.
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Grandis makes a non-NAND flash solid state storage technology called spin-transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM) that stores information via the direction of magnetization in a spin-polarized electron current.
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Chrysler says this is the highest torque rating of any naturally aspirated (non-turbocharged or supercharged) sports car engine in the world.
Like the standard G63 AMG it packs a wallop with its 5.5-liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine that in U.S. specs develops a frightening 544-horsepower and 560 pound-feet of torque.
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Torque vectoring enables optimum use of the adhesion potential between the tyres and the road surface in all driving conditions, thereby extending the critical limits of the vehicle's driving dynamics.
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In fact, at full throttle, the car's upshifting is masked with a microburst of extra torque.
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However, torque then becomes a problem, requiring huge generators with heavy copper windings that may scale out in the 3-4 MW range.
The 2.0-liter engine in the Beetle is the same unit you can find in the Golf and Jetta, a torquey turbo that produces 200 hp and 207 lb-ft of torque.
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Not so in Europe, where pump prices remained high, and diesel's 30% better fuel economy and greater torque won a loyal following.
The car itself is based primarily on the MINI Cooper S, with similar front and rear styling and the l.6-liter four-cylinder turbo engine that debuted in the 2011 MINI S. (The engine gets 181 hp and up to 192 lb-ft of torque, with a 0-to-60 mph sprint of 6.6 seconds.) Fuel economy ratings are 35 mpg on the highway and 27 mpg in the city under the manual transmission variant.
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