While horsepower is up only about 4% to 201 hp the torque is up 22% and is available lower on the rev counter (170 pound-feet at 4, 300 rpm).

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As health secretary in the Thatcher government, Norman (now Lord) Fowler told me if the health service were like a rev counter in a car it would have been running in the red zone under successive governments.

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Subaru also cagily put most of the engine's twist up high in the rev counter, with peak torque of 151 pound-feet at an astronomical 6, 400 rpm the high, hollow, splintering engine note is what you'd hear if you crashed through a grove of bamboo.

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