Today's community question: What slow cars have fooled you into thinking they’re fast?

Pedigree, good looks and great marketing are very persuasive tools, something which Ferrari used to great effect when promoting the Mondial.

Neil Winn

30 Mar 2016

Pedigree, good looks and great marketing are very persuasive tools, something which Ferrari used to great effect when promoting the Mondial. Featuring styling by Pininfarina, an innovative mid-engined layout and a clever monocoque chassis, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Mondial was a proper little supercar.

Not so. With only 205bhp being produced from its 3.0-litre Tipo F106B FI V8, the Mondial had a 0-62mph time of 8.2 seconds. In other words a current BMW 320d could beat it away from the lights.

But Ferrari isn’t the only company to pull the wool over our eyes, so we want to know: What other slow cars have fooled you into thinking that they’re fast? Let us know!

Comments

Base model r32

What about an article that has seemingly slow cars suprisingly fast

Haha yeah, sounds good! ;)

The new Prius

The Puma GT. This was a car produced in Brazil during the 70s and 80s, it was a beautiful national car made in fiber glass body and somehow luxurious interior. It was considered a sports car because during that time importing cars was forbidden, so it’s beautiful looks was very attractive to the rich of that era. The Engine? An air cooled flat four derived from the Beetle that produced astonishing 70hp

That car is beautiful I would love to get one of those, drop something a bit bigger into maybe something that gets at least 200 hp and drive it like crazy!