• Zak@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Overtaking damn near anything would redline the (very new, less than 10k miles) engine.

    While this suggests it might have been underpowered, how high the engine revs during acceleration in a modern automatic transmission vehicle is determined by software that operates the transmission and the driver’s control inputs, not how old the engine is. The designers of the car probably decided that was the best way to deliver the performance you asked for. They may even have been correct in that assessment.