"Horsepower" and "torque" rank among the most confusing automotive terms. To understand just what these terms mean, you must first grasp the concepts of "work" and "power." WORK:The movement of an ...

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

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 you're a classic muscle car enthusiast, you probably know which of the era's most powerful production V8s were in terms of horsepower, but have you ever wondered which were the torquiest? During ...

Although Pontiac is not a car brand you find on the market today, it was a major player in the muscle car era and for a few decades afterward. This was the GM brand that tended to do things its own ...

We'll spare you a full-on physics lesson, but some science concepts can't be avoided in this discussion. Torque travels from the engine into the transmission, then through the driveshafts and into the ...

Servo motor sizing is the process of selecting the best motor for a servo application. Misconceptions engineers can fall into when selecting a motor include: sizing based on the horsepower rating of ...