Posted by jdemaris on April 23, 2010 at 06:36:58 from (67.142.130.18):
In Reply to: small eng. lawsuit posted by CWL on April 23, 2010 at 05:09:13:
I am not surprised. But the figures have been very deceptive and confusing. Not everyone knows how to figure out what they are buying.
Nebraska Tests were created to weed out this sort of nonsense with farm tractors, and its worked very well since 1920. The tests put many liars out of business.
US autos also had to go through a big change around 1973. Went from gross to SAE net horsepower.
I'd rather see something along the same line with power equipment, instead of lawyers and legislators tring to "fix" things.
I don't see where anything has improved. Now, many companies post the torque numbers instead horsepower. I suspect most consumers have a hard time looking at a new lawn mower with a torque-number on it, and trying to compare with a 3.5 horse mower they had in the 1960s.
I still go by engine size, which is the best figure to compare. But, I still a "cubic inch" sort of person and get tired of all the metric figures. It would be fine if we stuck to one or the other, but we don't.
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