An engine that doesn’t really give you a kick of power until 3000 rpm is pretty useless in daily driving where you’re upshifting at 1750 rpm.

So it sounds like you’re saying that, for 90% of your driving, you don’t really care about how much power your car makes :P.

If you’re upshifting at 1750 rpms, you clearly don’t give a shit about torque or acceleration.

That’s the joke. I’m poking fun at people complaining about engines that don’t make any torque until 3000rpms because they apparently never learned about downshifting.

Who says you have to upshift at 1,750rpm? Not me. Rev that shit out. I like having a car with split personalities. My turbo doesn’t kick in until ~3,500rpms. Anything below 3,000rpms it makes... adequate power and is super easy to live with. Above 3,500rpms it is a fire breathing monster. Case in point I used to have…

If you’re upshifting anything other than a Peterbilt at 1750, you’re doing it wrong.

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Flat plane crank engines don’t have a mountain of torque. It’s all about them revs. It’s track focused. Staying in the meat of the powerband is crucial on track. If you hit peak torque at 2000 RPM, even if you have a mountain of it, it’s gonna taper off toward the redline.

Yeah, that’s my feeling too. It’s like the JD Power Initial Quality award. That really doesn’t mean anything. It’s easy to have the appearance of quality when brand-new. Give it 5-10 years. That’s when quality really is apparent.

That’s the big thing, Ward’s 10 Best Engines doesn’t care about reliability.

Wouldn’t be the first Grabber Blue Mustang w/ one.

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Serious question: Who gives a fuck about Wards list?

The GT350 engine deserves the win on sound and revs alone. Philistines.

One more thing: does this list really matter? It’s considered a prestigious award in the auto industry, but it’s hard to argue how much your average buyer really cars.

I probably should have been more clear about why I don’t think enthusiasts are going to care about this list. According to Wikipedia the criteria Ward uses are “power and torque output, noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) levels, technical relevance, and basic comparative numbers.” So in order for a car to score high…

I’m not sure I understand the point of this list. It seems to me that the properties this list takes into consideration are things most car enthusiasts aren’t really going to care about. So it could be a list for people who aren’t interested in cars. But I really don’t think people who aren’t interested in cars are…

Still, like a lot of Star Wars films, minor flaws kind of melt away, especially when you get to the third act, and Rogue One is no exception.

1st gear: Well, YEAH. Making cars is hard. There’s thousands of parts that all connect in weird ways. Even automakers can’t get it right first time every time- that’s why there’s recalls. Tech companies (with their culture of “just issue a patch”) sure weren’t going to do it well. Better to be a supplier.