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Originally Posted by Jamesons Viggen
Downsizing while offering more power/torque and improving acceleration. You are forgetting the other half of the equation.
The fact that the base 3(prior to the newly announced 320) does 0-60 in the mid 5's, 14 secs at 99+mph in the 1/4 is crazy. In 95-99 those were M3 stats.
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The 'more torque' is false because higher torque at low rpm is still lower HP (since HP=torque*rev)
It just feels more powerful because the torque comes on more quickly.
Max HP is the only measure of power.
High torque at low RPM is good, as it means more HP than the NA at low revs, but I believe alot of these acceleration figures are fudged with launching and not from flooring the pedal, at which the turbos waste alot of time loading.
Just as diesels 'feel' fast because of high HP(torque) wrt. revs, turbos even more so because there is the 'punch' as boost comes on - but its momentary and does not pull constantly in the same way an NA does.