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Old 10-15-2009, 08:35 PM   #151 (permalink)
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...while it "...ain't gonna happen..." during MY lifetime, but I'd like to see the car companies required to provide BSFC and ALL technical aspects of the vehicle in the Owners Manual that goes with each car--mandated!

...on CD or DVD!


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Old 10-16-2009, 04:44 PM   #152 (permalink)
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Some used to provide a subset of that, 30+ years ago. I have an owner's manual that shows nominal HP and torque curves (not just the max ratings!) and a nominal BSFC curve. The values shown in that curve are almost certainly at WOT only, so they aren't super useful for our purposes, but they are more than I've seen in most newer cars.

There was also a chart of speed vs. RPM in all gears, hill-climbing ability (which assumed a lot of things of course!) and other info that I haven't seen in newer owner's manuals.

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