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Originally Posted by Deep Six
SAE certified crank horsepower really has a single purpose: marketing new cars. Aside from that I really see no use for that data point. Wheel rated horsepower and torque is what moves the car and is the constant for measuring performance. So why do we even care if drive train loss is static or proportional to wheel horsepower?
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I agree, its useless; that being said every single automaker uses it because its a nice number, and it makes the car sound more powerful.
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