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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Honda del sol. With some more power it would be an amazing machine
3rd gen Pontiac Firebird : slow, slower, the slowest
Not if you slapped a 400 in it like I did. My other one with a 305 TPI isn’t too bad but yeah, for a 5.0 it’s slow. The torque makes up for a lot
Mini Roadster base Cooper model
Mitsubishi Eclipse GS
My 260hp 2.5 tonne pickup truck can keep up with a Mondial… Good god.
Gen5/6 Celica GTI
Somewhat didn’t expect fast from STi but…. well
My V GTI Would lap it Lol…0-100kmh in about 6 secs
every muscle car ever
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(JUST KIDDING, muscle cars an be prety rapid and are awesome in general)
Every Honda civic SI up until about 2007.
Opel Callibra