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Porsche website specs: DIN vs. SAE
Laz - Friday, 9 December, 2011, at 4:27:52 pm

The Porsche website lists the Cayman S as having 235 kW (320 hp.) Until now I assumed the horsepower was SAE, but the conversion from kW results in approximately 315. A couple different online conversion tables show 320 DIN to be approximately 315 (SAE?) hp.

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A correction and clarification
Laz - Sunday, 5 February, 2012, at 10:21:08 am

Although I had used a few different websites for converting kiloWatts into "hp," they all apparently convert kWs into metric horsepower, which yielded lower figures than what Porsche published. Perhaps the assumption is anyone looking at kW lives in a metric environment. With further study, I found a kW to SAE net converter, the factor being .7457. Using this, the resultants are close to Porsche's nominal figures.

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