Between them the 24-year-old from Hesse and the cars provided for grands prix held over the past three seasons: an impressive enough statistic, although the one that says he has started 37 of those races from pole position is an even clearer measure of their superiority in terms of sheer speed.
The original Hacker News thread grabbed our attention with following impressive growth statistic "In just 6 weeks since launch, we have over 20M pageviews (now over 1M a day and growing fast) and hundreds of thousands of daily uniques.
I'm merely referring to the impressive, Peugeot-issued statistic that states that, of the customers for the 207's big-selling predecessor, the 206 CC, 88% were women.
It's the sort of impressive-sounding initial statistic that TV shows use to justify their own existence.
But horsepower means far less than torque when the issue is moving a lot of metal (and maybe pulling up a stump or two), and the latter statistic is quite impressive: 320 foot-pounds at a relatively low 3,400 rpm.
