From: "Robert Comer" 

> My car has a whopping 90 hp, and can do about 115.

Mine has 210 hp and it may be able to do 115mph, but I wouldn't bet on it.
I really wouldn't know as the fastest I've ever driven it was 100mph
passing a long line of cars. (Ford Taurus DOHC 24valve V6, 25mpg during my
normal driving)

I suspect it's geared for low end power rather than high end cruising (as
are most other American cars.)

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Bob Comer 


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> "Don Hills"  wrote in message
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>>>Ok, so if you go from 125mph to 140mph, what is the % increase in power
>>>required?
>>
>> Is your calculator broken? Oh wait, you might be using the Windows one...
>>
>> 140 / 125 = speed increase 1.12x, cubed = 1.4 = 40% more power required.
>
> My car has a whopping 90 hp, and can do about 115. From there to 140 using
> the above mentioned formula, that would mean an additional 80% more power
> to go to 140, which means 162 hp. Or, to go to 150 I would need 199.7 hp.
> These are funny numbers...
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
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