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 ...

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 ...

There is an old adage saying that 'horsepower sells cars, torque wins races.' No, it wasn't said by a truck driver but by Carroll Shelby himself. As true as that saying is, torque doesn't do much ...

Alongside the top speed and the dash from zero to sixty, horsepower is often what, on paper at least, makes one car seem ...

While horsepower carries the car to high top speeds, torque is mainly responsible for moving the car quickly off the line. Torque is instrumental in providing great acceleration times and winning drag ...

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 ...

While horsepower tends to get all the love, torque is the real power number you want to know. Torque equals drivability, but it also equals tire shredding power. Here are nine cars that have gobs of ...

With its prodigious power and sophisticated all-wheel drive system, the Tesla Model S P85D has already broken the egos of quite a few supercar drivers. Now, this electric car is also breaking some ...

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 ...