Funnest Slow-Car-Fast in The World?

Hungary Bill wrote: The answer is "Trabant"

Can we please make this the new official motto of the forum?

It's more like slow-car-slow but you can drive a Samurai flat out on the street and feel like you're blasting around in a BJ Baldwin video without breaking the speed limit. There's a bump near my office I used to catch air off of.

I was thinking about how fun my Samurai can be to drive on the street just before an SUV pulled out too close in front of me and wrecked it

Robbie wrote: I think the answer is whatever you drove in high school. For me, it was a 1992 volkswagen fox wolfsburg edition coupe. And yes, it did jump well.

I don't know. My highschool car was a second gen T/A. You bet I had all the fun you can think of driving that thing. But I really had to abuse it and I've got all the tickets to prove it. Later in life my E21s provided all the same fun but to the outside world I wasn't being a menace to society.

Im with mndsm, the cars that i have had the most fun with are the ones ive bought for less than one weeks pay.

Never driven it but this looks like more fun than my Miata: Honda N600 powered by VFR800 motorcycle engine https://youtu.be/LU4bIsdnbkM

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I've got to admit, my 81 Scirocco was a ton of fun....and it was a 10 second 0-60 car at best. Not the slowest thing I've driven, but one of the more fun cars I've owned.

I've also driven 500hp cars that weren't much fun at all. (BMW M6 SMG I'm looking at you)

For slow-car-slow, I also think a Samurai is up there. Also, literally anything Japanese from the '80s on gravel.

I'm going to go modern and say a Mazda2. I test drove an auto-tragic equipped one awhile back and it was a HOOT! Drop throttle oversteer with a slight flick of the wheel, really quick feeling steering, and 100hp of 1.5 liter fury under the hood.

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71 Datsun 510 - The E36 M3 Box from hell! Ten years newer, the Mazda GLC 3 door. Four wheel drifting around neighborhood corners at 25 was so much fun... 78 Rabbit - simple, willing, and nimble.

1st Gen CRX DX tops my list. I'd like to own another.

Seems like most people are going vintage, so I thought I'd throw in a modern alternative.

By vintage standards that's definitely fast-car-fast.

I've said it before and i'll say it again: My 1987 Montero!

I guess my 1990 Tbi/5spd Caravan back when it was 100hp qualified. I found places to use ALL the suspension travel, at speed, in the Texas Hill Country. It's been turbo'd so long i'm starting to forget about all the fun i had back when it was slow.

Keith Tanner wrote: Original Mini. I don't think any car makes me laugh out loud in quite the same way. You'll feel you're running a stage in the Monte Carlo rally even if you're getting groceries.

When a guy that makes his living selling Miata parts says original Mini is the best "slow car fast", that pretty much ends the thread.

Frogeye/Midget gets my vote.

Bugeye sprite for sure. Total go cart. MG Midget is same thing and can still be bought for pocket lint money.

Less obvious and more useful would be a Mazda Protege of the 2002 era. I had one as the only non 2-seater car I have owned. Ran it on the Azenis 615s and I drove it like I stole it from an ex Mother in law; that car just sucked it up and flew under every radar.

Saturn SL1 is slow and disposable. Every stoplight is a race, and you're the only one who knows. When it breaks, throw it in the gutter, go buy another

jere wrote: Early 70s beetle with the semi auto trans. Rolled it once, knocked roof up+junkyard windshield drove it some more. Max speed was 55 or so. Dry rotted 20 year old tires plus had to keep the gas pegged at all times to keep momentum... it slid everywhere.

My brother had one of these in high school, mid-70's. He put the Baja kit on it and some F70-14 tires on with some magnesium wheels with 1" spacers. The magnesium wheels were the type you had to put tubes in the tires because the metal was too porous to hold air. Car was as slow as molassas in the winter time but that thing was like a go-cart to drive.
With the over size rubber you could not lock up the brakes and it was really hard to slide. The Baja kit came without bumpers. The local deputies harrassed him so much about that he finally made some bumpers out of 2" x 6", varnished them and bolted them on. No law required bumpers BTW, just typical cop stuff.

In reply to jharry3:

I took an emergency 90 degree turn at about 35-40 mph (couldn't see the road ended at a T to another road until a car flashed in front of us) and to this day I can't believe how fast and controlled that maneuver was.

Will agree with those that said whatever car you had in high school...

My 1989 Volvo 745GL had 114 hp + RWD. In other words, pretty much perfect.

Vigo wrote: By vintage standards that's definitely fast-car-fast.

Not compared to what I'm driving now.

Other than the Mitsubishi Mirage and older Smart Fortwo, I can't think of a slower/lower horsepower MODERN car than what I currently own; a 2012 Scion iQ.

Reliant Robin....

In reply to jstein77:

1990 Miata: 0 - 60: 9.1 seconds 1/4 Mile: 17.1 Seconds

2014 Fiesta ST: 0 - 60: 6.1 seconds. 1/4 mile: 14.9.

The Fiesta ST really isn't a slow car.

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