Sentence examples for certain horsepower from inspiring English sources

"The human mind," he later explained, "is better thought of as a series of relatively separate faculties, with only loose and non-predictable relations with one another, than as a single, all-purpose machine that performs steadily at a certain horsepower, independent of content and context".

After sampling all three flavors of Passat — 5-cylinder and V-6 gasoline versions, and this 2-liter, 140-horsepower turbodiesel — I'm certain I would choose the diesel, if only to see how many weeks I could drive without filling the tank.

What it is: This is Mercedes-AMG's fifth so-called Black Series model, a designation emblematic of extreme horsepower enhancements, weight-reducing construction and ride and handling improvements added to certain Mercedes-Benz cars by the AMG performance division.

Formula One racecars are also equipped with a Kinetic Energy Recovery System, or KERS, a form of a hybrid system that can be used for an additional spurt of 50 to 60 horsepower for a few seconds and can be used for passing on certain sections of the course.

With 500 horsepower, the four-wheeled Tomahawk promises to rocket a single rider into almost certain death.

Under the bonnet is a 1.6-litre EcoBoost turbocharged four-cylinder, chucking out 179 horsepower and 199 pound-feet of torque, and there's an overboost feature in certain situations that allows for 197bhp for short periods.

The concept is the same: The 2004 edition comes installed on certain new PC models from Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Gateway, Sony, Toshiba and others that have been equipped with the horsepower needed for smooth TV recording and playback, including fast processors, copious memory and gigantic hard drives.

"But in reality, increasing the power, once you get to a certain level, becomes very difficult, and the kind of gains that you get by having a lot of horsepower becomes very small," he said.

The concept is the same: the 2004 edition comes installed on certain new PC models -- from Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Gateway, Sony, Toshiba and others -- that have been equipped with the horsepower needed for smooth TV recording and playback, including fast processors, copious memory and gigantic hard drives.

They don't care about the meaning behind a certain brand, and they don't have the proper understanding for things such as skid pad and slalom testing, horsepower per liter or the engineering behind driving dynamics -- so what could they possibly know?

-- 300 horsepower.