Amos Kwon
Editor, content strategist and automotive journalist. I write the calculators and guides on calcHorsePower.com.
Amos Kwon
Editor, content strategist and automotive journalist with more than a decade of experience. I have reviewed hundreds of vehicles and driven most of what is on sale today, and my job here is turning complex technical material into something you can actually use.
- Automotive journalism
- Hundreds of vehicles reviewed
- Copy editing
- Content strategy
- SEO
- 10+ years
What I Do Here
My job on this site is translation. Horsepower math is not complicated once somebody shows you where the constants come from, but most of what is published about it either hides the formula behind a single number or explains it in language only an engineer follows. I write the version in between.
That is the work I have done for more than a decade as an editor, content strategist and automotive journalist. I have reviewed hundreds of vehicles and driven most of what is currently on sale, and I write regularly about the things that actually decide a purchase: how vehicle weight affects safety outcomes, what the EV market is really doing, why trim levels matter more than headline specs.
My background is editorial rather than mechanical. That is deliberate, and it is exactly why nothing on this site publishes without Joshua Beckman checking the engineering first. I make the explanation clear; he makes sure it is right.
How the Writing and Checking Split Works
Two people touch every page on this site, and it is worth being clear about which of us does what.
| Amos Kwon — writer and editor | Joshua Beckman — reviewer and publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| Role | Researches, structures and writes the guides and calculator pages | Reviews the engineering, verifies the constants and signs the page off |
| Background | Editor, content strategist and automotive journalist, 10+ years | SCCA Solo and Time Trials competitor, Automotive High Performance graduate |
| Brings | Clarity, structure and accuracy of explanation | First-hand experience of how these numbers behave at an event |
The division matters. I can explain why the 5252 constant exists and derive it cleanly. Joshua is the one who knows whether a trap-speed estimate matches what the time slip actually said on a hot afternoon in Ohio. Neither view is sufficient on its own, which is why nothing publishes with only one of them.
What I Hold the Writing To
- The formula is on the page. If a calculator returns a number, the equation behind it, a worked example and the assumptions applied are all visible.
- Constants get derived, not copied. Where a figure like 5252, 1714 or 3456 appears, the page explains where it came from.
- Limits are stated. Every estimate says where it stops being reliable, because a number without its caveats is worse than no number.
- Corrections are published, not buried. When a reader reports an error we re-derive it from the source formula and fix the page.
The full process every calculator goes through before publishing is set out on the about page. If something here reads wrong to you, the contact page reaches us both.