While it?s natural to give prominence to a car?s total horsepower, the more character-defining statistic often is its specific output: how much juice it squeezes from each liter of displacement. Often, the higher this number, the greater the engineering effort that was put into the engine. So while the new baby Euro-spec Volkswagen Golf has just 109 horsepower, it extracts that from a turbocharged inline-three with just 1.0 liter of displacement. Meaning its state of tune is the near equal to that of the Golf GTI Sport, which makes 220 horsepower from an engine twice the size. READ MORE ??
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