The bass line kicked in with 420 lb ft of torque and we were passing drivers in no time.
The TDI Clean Diesel engine makes 295 lb-ft from just 1750 rpm, while the electric motors produce their torque-133 lb-ft at the front wheels and 199 lb-ft at the rear-immediately.
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Under the Hood: 3.7 liter DOHC 24-valve VVEL V6 Engine, 330 hp and 27 lb-ft torque.
Under the Hood: 2.0 liter turbocharged I-4 engine producing 211 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque.
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The lusty powerplant puts out 360 hp and 343 lb-ft of torque, with a very broad powerband.
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Carefully-managed turbocharging ensures that the maximum 384 lb-ft torque is available across most of the twin-turbo V6's operating range.
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The base engine gives good love: 300 hp from turbo I-5 that produces 250 hp and 266 lb-ft of torque.
How it goes: A brand new boxer 2.5 4 cylinder engine with CVT that produces 173 hp and 174 lb-ft of torque.
Combined, the system can produce up to 516 lb-ft, a stout number.
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In the car torque is limited electronically to 1, 100 Nm (811 lb-ft).
The LT1 6.2 L V8 engine has 450 horses under the hood (20 more than the C6) and has 450 lb-ft of torque.
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The battery powers a high-response 80kW AC synchronous motor, rated at 107 horsepower and 187 lb-ft of torque, which drives the front wheels through a single speed reducer.
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My test X3 xDrive35i was equipped with a 3.0-liter inline 6-cylinder engine with twin turbochargers, tuned to produce the magic numbers of 300 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque.
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The 2.0-liter engine in the Beetle is the same unit you can find in the Golf and Jetta, a torquey turbo that produces 200 hp and 207 lb-ft of torque.
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Bentley has given the GT Coupe its famous 6-liter, 12-cylinder engine but teased out more power than before (567 bhp and 516 lb-ft of torque) and added a new Quickshift transmission that allows double downshifting.
The twin-turbo V6 replaces the naturally aspirated 4.8-liter V8 engine in the previous-generation Panamera S and Panamera 4S. The new bi-turbo engine is also used in the Executive version of the Panamera 4S. The engine's figures themselves are indicators of progress: increases of 20 hp and 15 lb-ft torque when compared to the outgoing V8 engine.
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The car itself is based primarily on the MINI Cooper S, with similar front and rear styling and the l.6-liter four-cylinder turbo engine that debuted in the 2011 MINI S. (The engine gets 181 hp and up to 192 lb-ft of torque, with a 0-to-60 mph sprint of 6.6 seconds.) Fuel economy ratings are 35 mpg on the highway and 27 mpg in the city under the manual transmission variant.
Curiosity weighs 899 kilograms (1, 980 lb), and is 2.9 meters (9.5 ft) long by 2.7 meters (8.9 ft) wide, and 2.2 meters (7.2 ft) tall.
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