NASCAR official explains why horsepower was raised to 750 and the reasoning behind not pushing the number any higher ...

torque is a force. horsepower is the rate at which the engine does work. Really, all the engine's peak torque, and the RPM at which it produces it tells you is the general operating characteristics of ...

Most features of vehicles have horsepower and torque added to their description to inform buyers about the engine’s power. However, you might be oblivious to the difference between horsepower and ...

The practice of measuring a car engine's overall strength in horsepower dates all the way back to 18th-century Scotland, when James Watt invented the steam engine and devised a metric to measure its ...

Many tractors, as massive as they may look, pulling all that weight across a field, operate with surprisingly low horsepower ratings compared to everyday vehicles. For a lot of people, that's ...

Some of the marine racing R/C nitro engines can twist out 5 hp from 11cc. It's comical that the tuned pipe is usually physically larger than the engine. UPFRONT Warning - I'm not covering everything..