One vivid screen animates real-time horsepower and torque output.
At low speed, torque output exceeds that of the previous 6.2-liter engine by 50 pound-feet.
Switching to Normal mode, which cuts torque output to 218 pound-feet, the same run took 1.5 seconds longer.
Variable valve timing can optimize performance and economy and provide a more constant engine torque output at different engine speeds.
"She has the highest peak power and torque output of any female in the whole team," says the sprint head coach, Iain Dyer.
Dan Kapp, Ford's director of power-train research, said a combination of turbocharger boost and direct injection nearly doubled an engine's torque output per liter.
Its torque output of 270 pound-feet tops the V-6 engine's 254, and it reaches that peak 1,000 r.p.m. sooner.
Voted the "catch-all superlative" of last year by the American Dialect Society, weapons-grade has been used to modify everything from a Toyota's torque output to Elvis Presley's charisma.
While the new engine's 65 horsepower represents an increase of only one or two horsepower, the torque output has increased from the first twist of the throttle through the middle of the r.p.m. range.
Mr. Conn said that the engine's torque output, better than 120 pound-feet, emphasized stout performance in the range from 20 miles per hour to 90 m.p.h., where riders could really make use of it.
A brace of cybernetic systems control intake harmonics and valve timing to improve torque output at low engine speeds, so this engine -- the same one used in the GS 430 -- has an easy muscularity that appears just off throttle and doesn't begin to fade until the engine is at full song at 6,350 r.p.m.
