For cars, what is torque?

Question

in grand turismo, cars have torque. What is torque. its measured in pounds i beleive. More the better? what does torque do?

Answer 1

It is measured in foot-pounds. It is a rotational force. When racing cars torque is what gets you off the line. It's what throws you into the back of your seat when you slam on the gas. Two cars with equal torque and weight will be very even during the first part of a race. After that, which ever car has the horsepower advantage would start to pull away, while the other car would have to start grabbing lower gears.

Answer 2

As for a gaming situation, it makes you get off the line quicker. If your pulling or tugging something, it makes it pull harder.

Answer 3

THE DEFINITION OF TORQUE.....SOMETHING THAT A HONDA CANT HAVE LOL

Answer 4

A technical definition is: is a force that tends to rotate or turn things. Informally, torque can be thought of as "rotational force".

You generate a torque any time you apply a force using a wrench. Tightening the lug nuts on your wheels is a good example.

When you use a wrench, you apply a force to the handle. This force creates a torque on the lug nut, which tends to turn the lug nut.

if the wrench arm is long the torque will become larger and vise verse

now for the cars the torque means one thing

DRAG DRAG AND DRAG

this is the force that engine torque generate and then have all these reductions/ amplifications through the gearbox, and differential gears

torque amplifies in low gears and speed gets down, as torque and rpm are some how opposite in curves

so that the maximum torque usually never exceeds the 1/2 of the car max RPM, but in some cars does

best cars like Porsche, have a very great engine characteristic that is a stable continues torque for an interval of RPM and in this period the car pure accelerating.

Answer 5

Ive had multiple people explain the concept of torque to me but this site actually told me what it was i now understand it.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/fpte4.h...