Most people didn't do their physics homework. To get yourself off the line fast you want a hell of a lot of torque, not horsepower. Horsepower is usually a better indication of the top speed potential of the car. Now since HP and Torque are related to eachother (which is why they always equal each other at one point on a dyno graph), you can make the argument that hp is a good indication of acceleration ability because it is related to torque directly (and vice versa), but if you want to be correct, you would know that it's torque you should be worried about.
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