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Message: <blockquote data-quote="glock_8" data-source="post: 459328" data-attributes="member: 14626">scenario - approaching a corner at 3rd gear 6000 rpm brake n shift to 2nd gear hence the speed is reduced but the rpm is maintain....feather the throttle during the corner n floor to 7k rpm then switch to 3rd gear...i dont see any of the time my car will be out of the power band unlike the diesel...where the power band is soo narrow that u had to work on the gear shift more often hence losing few seconds....and pls dont mix power (HP) with torque (Nm)...cos with the diesel the peak torque is at 2500-3000 and start to dip very low after 3k rpm...together with the HP, so when you shift to higher gear, the torque will be useless cos the HP is gone....this is the same scenario what jeremy clarkson encountered when he raced with the petrol...at the corner...even if he floored the car...there is no torque to pull it...cos the HP is gone...just check the HP-Torque equation and you'll know how these two related.u can put all the data on the table and compare numbers...but they are just numbers...look at the performance curve and see how the peak power dip on the diesel car..then u know who will win....a s204 learnt his lesson when my humble 325sport smoked him when we had a race on npe from bangsar to sunway. it is not because my car is more powerful...but because the s204 driver is always in the wrong gear...struggling.......i guess since its a manual only a handful of person know how to rev match in a light speed especially on a spirited driving...it will be a different story if we had a straight line drag on MEX highway..my guess is..the 325 will be smoked by few hundred meters<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></blockquote>

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