Do you shop for horsepower or torque? Different factors matter when buying a car, depending on the buyer’s needs, preferences, and budget. Some shoppers look for maximum seating room and the highest ...

Whether you’re reading about V8 pickups or electric sedans, the concept of torque is critical to understanding the capabilities of a car. Torque often takes a back seat to horsepower when it comes to ...

Everyone and their mothers know a car’s top two performance metrics are horsepower and torque. They’re littered across every car’s spec sheet, plastered multiple times in its reviews, and bolded and ...

Joe is a classically trained journalist who’s been writing about the auto industry and car culture for 40 years, steering the editorial direction of prominent Canadian magazines such as World of ...

The late 1960s were the height of the muscle car wars. Automakers from Detroit were locked in a horsepower and torque battle, with each brand trying to outdo the other. For Chevrolet, this was an era ...

The Tesla Model S P100D has been breaking records left and right recently thanks to its monstrously quick 2.28-second 0-60 time. It's currently the fastest car to 60 mph you can buy, and holds the ...

In the last couple of decades, the creed of “there's no replacement for displacement” has been made slowly obsolete by the advent of more efficient superchargers, oversized turbochargers, and ...

torque is a force. horsepower is the rate at which the engine does work. Really, all the engine's peak torque, and the RPM at which it produces it tells you is the general operating characteristics of ...

Most electric cars aren't normally associated with performance, but they are able to achieve something gasoline-powered cars can't: peak torque at zero rpm. It's thrown around often, and many will ...

As we slowly inch closer to the new Toyota Supra’s full, uncamouflaged reveal early next year, more details on the upcoming sports car continue to come to light. Thanks to a report by Autocar, we now ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

If the nuts and bolts in your car aren't properly tightened, each drive could lead to damaged breaks or the wheels falling ...