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I recently purchased a new (pre-owned) car and was amazed at how much power it had. That got me wondering what a graph of the power from all my cars would look like over time. So...

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  	x-axis ["'89","'91","'93","'95","'97","'99","'01","'03","'05","'07","'09","'11","'13","'15","'17","'19","'21","'23","'25"]
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	  " 1 --> 380
  	bar [0,52,52,0,70,0,143,143,143,115,115,115,197,197,197,187,187,187,365]
  	line [0,39,39,0,85,0,111,111,111,104,104,104,166,166,166,236,236,236,309]

The bars are Horsepower, and the line is Torque (lbs/ft).

I've excluded details about the particular cars to make sure I'm not giving away to much PII, but I will say that the first car was a Geo Metro that I bought after a summer job. It had a measly 52 hoursepower and only 39 lbs/ft of torque.

The new car has a 365 horsepower and 309 lbs/ft of torque. A 700% increase in horsepower and a 800% in torque! No wonder I was amazed.