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.

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!

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Comments

Anonymous

Any BMW with a 4 cylinder engine and some of the sixes too.

03/30/2016 - 15:03 |
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Anonymous

oops…

03/30/2016 - 15:06 |
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H5SKB4RU (Returned to CT)

Honda prelude… It sounded gorgeous but at the end it was still slow

03/30/2016 - 15:08 |
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Rithik_S

Honda civic 4 door

03/30/2016 - 15:08 |
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tsrmgn

My GT86

03/30/2016 - 15:12 |
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Anonymous

Miata. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything else

03/30/2016 - 15:14 |
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Anonymous

you are talking about an 80s sports car
205 hp from a 3 liter is pretty good
much better than a five liter american v8 which is newer and gets similar hp

03/30/2016 - 15:22 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

American 5 liter v8s most notably in the mustangs make 435 hp and 400 lb ft torque these days…

03/30/2016 - 15:48 |
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maserati skyline

Ford capri, ‘european mustang’. Yeah right

03/30/2016 - 15:23 |
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Ducktail 2.7

This, when I was 8 years old.

03/30/2016 - 15:25 |
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Antonio (Boost Nation)

Sorry Alex :)

03/30/2016 - 15:26 |
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The answer’s ALWAYS Miata ;)

03/31/2016 - 04:08 |
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