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

When I was an ignorant kid, the delorian. Simply because of back to the future.

Old muscle car

Really old muscle cars are actually fast. After 1972 there was a long dark age though.

Ahem.

8.2 seconds…
Forget about modern cars, bit unfair.
My 1987 Audi 100 Turbo Avant does it in roughly the same time.
That’s idiotic.

….every stock economy car made with new tight suspension… Always make them seem fast… Any car with paddle shift any mazda

Any car with paddle shift? Pagani Zonda R

An Mazda? 787B bihhh pleeeeaaa

The Civic Sport we used to have at the garage even had a original F1 emblem on the sideskirts, I thought the sport version was actually one of the fast ones. buy was I wrong, heaps lighter than my 6cil sedan but the 1.4 (didn’t know which engine was in it at first) just wouldn’t go. It was horribly sluggish and not at all fun to drive

That was all the VTEC it didn’t have not kicking in :p
You need to go 1.6+ to get the horses ;)

yeah I kinda expected it to have a reasonable engine and vtec because it said vtec and had a F1 logo on the side, boy was I wrong
also I doubt a 1.6+ honda would be much for me, the handling didn’t really speak to me at alll