Characteristics, not variants or options

Hello,

regarding the „characteristics“ I may not correctly understand the concept in Hikashop.

When I set up a product, then I define the characteristics:

For example a car, the characteristics could be the number of horsepower, the number of doors, it’s speed etc.

In Hikashop characteristics are more „variants“ or „options“ a customer can choose from. Is that correct?

What I need is ideally, that I can set up characteristics fields, for example for each category and let the admistrator fill in the values of the characteristics, when she/he sets up a new product in this category..

Like in the above mentioned example with the cars.

Then in the product category view or the product view all these characteristics are displayed for the customer and are ideally searchable.

For example search for cars with more than 100 horsepower etc. With the „discription“ text area of the product this search or even sorting by horsepower, would not be possible.

Is there a way to do this in Hikashop?

Thanks.