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Again I'm really sorry but some of you guys have zero understanding about what the maximum torque figure actually means.
A high revving engine will be geared to take advantage of the maximum horsepower. The "lack of torque down low" some people complain about tends to be BS, if you just look at the max. torque curve. If you want max. power at a lower rpm, that's actually worse, because it means the engine efficiency drops faster at high rpm. Max torque means very little when the more sophisticated variable valve timing systems come into play, because the engine can more or less be optimized for multiple rpm ranges. The only thing you can read from the max. torque figure is if the engine is performance oriented, then it gives some kind of indication of how efficiently they were able to use the displacement. Even then, the difference is generally pretty small.
The moral of the story is, max horsepower means a lot more than max torque, because max horsepower (with weight considered) is what gives the manufacturer the ability to make a faster accelerating car.
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