they all do it. how cool would it be to have a Mustang 4.9? not very, which
is why they all say 5.0 on the side (the old pushrod engines anyway....i know
the new ones are 4.6 sohc or dohc, depending), though the displacement in
cc.'s when rounded to the closest tenth of a liter, is 4.9.
In a message dated 01/25/2002 1:27:27 AM Pacific Standard Time,
csp311@telia.com writes:
> Yes, also the hp figures are also made up by the
> marketing people. "we dont want a car with 202 hp
> it must be an even figure". The best one was when
> a local automaker came with a new performance model.
> The marketing said they want 200 hp and a flat 300 Nm
> torque curve. The problem is that 300 Nm is more than
> 200 hp from a certain rpm so the engineers had to limit
> the power to 200 hp from 4500 rpm to 6000 rpm
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