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Originally posted by Dagnabit
gentlemen, gentlemen! surely we can agree that there are other things worth measuring in a vehicle besides the relative power of its engine. cars must provide power to the wheels but they must also do so much more. they must, for example, stop once in a while. they must turn. and their front passenger space must provide adequate room for oral sex.

This is true, except for the oral sex part. You shouldn't be doing that while driving, and if you're stopped, the bed of a station wagon is a much more appropriate place. Also if you do it in the parking lot of an office park in the front seat, the people on the third floor get to see you. (laughed our asses off, we did).

But for measuring the performance of the engine, hp/L is inappropriate. It simply fails to measure anything of value. If it were possible to build an engine with twice the displacement but the same weight and form factor as another engine with the same power, those engines would have the same performance; the hp/L measure would show the larger-displacement engine as having half the performance. This is silly.

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