


2008 Honda Accord EX Sedan  (Source: Honda)
Honda readies its diesel engines for passenger vehicles in the U.S.







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RE: Does it have VTEC?
By psyph3r on 10/26/2007 3:11:09 PM , Rating: 3
But it will do better in real-life driving situations, such as highway driving where torque is more important for going from 50-70 over and over again. The target audience for this is obviously people that care about performance that is oriented at keeping money in the wallet.

RE: Does it have VTEC?
By jbzx86 on 10/26/2007 3:19:01 PM , Rating: 1
Not only that but the turbo on this thing will be pushing at least 15 pounds of boost. What that means is when you open the throttle, you get to hear that turbo spool up and shifting will give you that satisfying "pshhh".

RE: Does it have VTEC?
By proflogic on 10/27/2007 11:58:18 AM , Rating: 2
Torque is never "more important" than power for determining acceleration -- the two are directly related, but power is much easier to work with if you want to determine any physical figures in relation to the entire car. You're buying into the marketing crap.

The thing is that auto manufacturers only ever tell you the peak torque and peak power; those mean very little with respect to performance. Those values give you the instantaneous acceleration at some RPM (which isn't very useful if you're, you know, accelerating from one RPM level to another). To get great acceleration, you need a lot of power in excess of the power being drained from your car due to friction and drag (at the speed you want to reach, and the former grows with the square of velocity, while the latter grows with the cube).

So, since the power output is so different at various levels of RPM, the most important factor next to your power curve (or torque curve, which you can use to calculate your power curve, haha) is gearing.

