what is the use of torque
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But this torque can tell you a lot about how fast the car can accelerate. Let's turn it into a physics problem. We'll assume that this "500 Newton-meters" is an actual, legit value for how much torque the tires experience. We can estimate that the mass of a typical car is about 1500 kg, and that the typical distance between the center of mass of the car and the wheel's rotational axis is about 20 cm; this gives us a moment of inertia for the car of 60 kg m^2. The car's wheel size plus the sidewall radius of the tire is about 20", or 51 cm.
Torque is the amount of "turning power" you have, much in the same way you turn a wrench. 369 foot-pounds means that if you had a wrench that was 1 foot long, and applied a force of 369 pounds directly perpendicular to that wrench, you would get 369 foot-pounds of torque.