A performance package is a set of functional enhancements to the driveline of a vehicle, sold and priced as a unit.
This package may contain one or more of the following enhancements
- Greater engine torque
- Greater engine power
- Lower ratio gears to enhance low end performance, now rare due to requirements for model specific emissions (smog control) and mileage (CAFE) certification
- A greater number of speeds in the gearbox, manual or automatic
- Clutchless manual transmission, usually including steering wheel paddle shifter controls
- Turbocharger or supercharger, perhaps with intercooling
- Cold air induction
- Dual exhaust system
- Special low back pressure mufflers, often with a distinctive (and sometimes quite loud) sound
- Special cosmetic badging, hood scoop, or grille color, not usually related to performance but making the presence of the package obvious
Famous quotes containing the word performance:
“O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be so loved, and the performance so loathed?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)