I don’t think he was misleading, he just didn’t explain it. Saying “torque is the push, horsepower is how long you feel it” followed by examples of different cars he’s driven with different types of motors, doesn’t really teach the viewer anything.

Proper torque is for suckers. Just use a longer wrench.

Automotive journalists are totally incapable of explaining HP vs Torque even if they understand it, just as they are incapable of refraining from excessive use of hyperbole. Those are just facts. What’s more disturbing is that Pobst didn’t try to explain it correctly, I guess he’s transitioning careers from racing…

The video absolutely tries to substantiate the contrived notions that OP is complaining about. As awesome as Randy is, what he says in the video (as well as what is said in the article) is demonstrably incorrect and super misleading. While kaisersoze is ranting, they are 100% correct. Power available to you at a given…

Totally bullshit explanation of torque and power. The notion that torque is about the performance at low rpm and that power is about performance at high rpm is a very popular notion but it is totally a CONTRIVANCE. That’s right folks, the most popular belief about torque and power, that is expounded routinely by…

Congrats for the absolute dumbest comment of the day!

I guess that’s what happens in a state with very low taxes.

You, uh, ok dude?

Show me on the doll where the man touched you, zedo...

I will not.

Have you ever stood on the side of a highway or tried to help somebody with a broken down car in the middle of the lane? It’s scary, extremely scary.

First responders do where I’m from in the northeast. The old fashioned burning kind, so you can often see the residue from a burnt out flare on the ground a day after a bad crash.

I carry flares, but probably will not buy more when these age out of functionality: an led flashlight with blinking mode is cheap & safer.

BWAHAHAHA. “State with very low taxes”. That’s hilarious. You’re a regular David Regan... but please, don’t quit your day job. We moved out of the Bay Area over 10 years ago and the sales tax alone was 9.25% back then. It’s only gotten worse, since.

I’m in my early 30's. I carry a set of crush-proof LED road flares in my trunk (along with a first aid kit and fire extinguisher). I’ve lost and replaced a couple of the LED flares over the years from fire trucks arriving on accident scene and parking right on top of the flares, but they’re worth keeping handy.

I don’t know what you could realistically do. I don’t have flares in my car, just a flashlight. I wouldn’t attempt to cross an LA freeway on foot. This is a total failure of the police to mark the crash with a squad car and/or flares, assuming 911 was contacted and they were alerted to that first crash in a timely…

Now how the fuck does the amount of time it has sat help this gentleman see it any better? What, he’s just doing laps?

Yeah, there’s only one bar within walking distance of my apartment, and it’s cash-only, and I rarely carry cash, so I rarely go there... but just the idea of going years and years without being in a situation where you’re too drunk to drive is, to me, like going years and years without being in a situation where you…

Are we sure that’s not just a Holden suspension engineer?

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A couple years ago I designed a koala exhibit for the local zoo. As a part of my design work, I researched koalas. They are... not the best…