Buying new car. What Torque, hp, Nm all means? Significant?

The Math works like this...

Horsepower is defined as work done over time. The exact definition of one horsepower is 33,000 lb.ft./minute. Put another way, if you were to lift 33,000 pounds one foot over a period of one minute, you would have been working at the rate of one horsepower. In this case, you'd have expended one horsepower-minute of energy.

Okay I know...Wolf what the Heck does that mean????

The higher the number the faster the car can go.

or the larger the engine the quicker you reach highway speeds but you trade off better fuel mailage.

Torque is about how much of that power gets to the ground.

say if your going to tow a trailer you want a high torque number.

Nm Well thats not a lot of help unless your a hard core car nut!

Okay a standard car nowadays, maybe has 170 to 250 HP

a super car (hotrod/racecar) 500 to 700+ HP.

a normal pickup may have 200+ pound foot of torque

while a simi-truck can have 2000+

you use those numbers to see what fits what you want to do

thats all...

i think of they had experience concerning an identical. Diesel could be made to experience extraordinarily zippy, yet you have have been given to have the gearing to take great thing approximately it. additionally, the rev band is extraordinarily slender on maximum diesels so if it is a instruction manual, you'll be stirring the pot particularly a lot to get the main from the engine. you're asserting different components being equivalent, so i think of your appropriate guess is with gas hence. The diesel engine would be maximum possibly be heavily heavier, and if the gearing is an identical between the two autos the gas engine's broader rev band is in all hazard going to grant it the area.

Look it up on your "Search" on your computer. Also just call a dealer for the specific car your interested in and ask them.