Lets Talk about Torque!, ...Have the japs had us on for years on end?

I've noticed since my old motor bike days, that the Japs always had figues way above the poms and everyone else producing all types of machinery,of the same nature ..a triumph motor bike could carry a rider and his pillion passenger up hill and down dale at a reasonable speed, only having to drop one gear with a four speed gearbox, the japs bring out a bike with half the engine capacity and claimed speeds and power of twice the amount, My experience was yes they could, but load it up and you where flat out getting away from the curb without using there 13000rpms.

Heavy Trucks, Ask a driver the difference between a C15 Cat and a jap truck of the same HP, No contest in slugging power!, Farm tractors in the sixties, compare a 55hp david brown or Fergie on a rotary hoe, against a jap tractor of the same hp. definitley no contest, been there!, And now the 4bys, Well there all been mostly jap powered for years and years and so everyone just grows with them ..lol.. Ireckon the old defender has more lug at idle than a lot of the same year toyos with a extra two pots ..So are these latest V8 jap diesels as good as what they could be or all the other jap motors in everything else??.. theres not much to compare really so everyone just thinks there marvellous!, They are good no doubt about it but could they be a lot better, are the engine performance specs Real??

And just for interest the Holden and Ford engine in the V8 super car catergory is dominant over the roughly same spec newly introduced Nissan and Mercs ,All about torque, ....I'll stop talking now...lol.


Cheers Axle.