[DGthe3]

Torque for me. I started a similar thread a few months ago, but they are different enough.

I've thought about this often enough and I always come to the same conclusion. For the same power, more torque is better than more rpm. The engine has more power availible at any speed, hp=tq*rpm/5252. So a high reving engine gets its power from revs, thereby losing some of its low and mid range power. A torquey motor will still build power as you go through the rpms, but it will have alot more at 3k than a screamer will have at 4k.
Add to it the fact that the higher the rpms, the faster things break. And if they don't break faster they are an awful lot more expensive.

My thoughts are summed up by a quote that I've heard was made in a magazine about the corvette in the mid 80's. Any corner, any gear, any time. Or words to that effect.