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Home » Issues » November 1993 » Horseplay

Horseplay

July 7th 2014
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Sir,

Why do some car manufacturers still quote the power of their engines in the archaic German units of Pferdestarke (PS), which not one person in a thousand understands?

It is because, being a unit about 1.5 per cent smaller than an HP, their engines thus appear to be more powerful?

JF Bawd,
Farnham,
Surrey.

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