Top 7 Slow Cars that (only) Look Fast 

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​@@it-a-me well then 7 *more* sleepers

@@Lucek_RS look up the toyota lineup and be done with it

@@DSG-farts-connoisseur bruh

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Lol! What was your friend's reaction afterwards?

He should be thankful that the Iron Duke 4 was not as woeful as Ford's 250 straight 6 of the late 70's that was only good for 70 HP. Another great achievement of the Malaise Era !

Damn, a four banger...smh In the early 80s I was in the market for a vehicle but being a youngin' the salesman figured his Camero was what I wanted...(NOT!) It had an anemic 6 cyl tied to a crappy automatic trans. He grew ever more annoyed as I kept talking about the power to weight ratio (he didn't know the weight). I ended up with a Scirocco Wolfsburg edition. As long as you kept up the rpm by stirring it with the 5 spd she moved briskly...fun to drive, and more practical for me.

@@Evom777 I'd be impressed on how abysmal the performance is.

yes getting beat by a school bus in a Camaro is really lame, but in 1985 I worked for Oldsmobile the new Calais was picked for the Indy 500 pace car because of the new Quad 4 engine, it had to go 0 to 120 in 20 seconds, we could not get there, they kept breaking, so the 1985 Indy 500 pace car had an Iron duke, bored stroked milled and ported head custom header it got the job done, GM did not want anyone to know but a lot of time has passed, so the truth will be known LOL!!

Actually, you're closer than you think to the truth. The X1/9 was designed by Marcello Gandini, the brain behind the Countach and other razor-wedge Lambos. In addition to the body styling, he did the powertrain layout and suspension, being somewhat limited by Fiat's parts bin, which meant the first gen used the 1300 cc engine mated to a 4-speed transaxle from the 128. That's not a bad thing since it (the 128) was one sporty family sedan with a SOHC aluminum engine and full independent suspension. In fact, the entire drivetrain and suspension was moved to the middle of the X1/9, even keeping the steering knuckles, just held in place with rigid struts.

Just to let you know I had a VW rabbit that made 50HP. Granted it was diesel.

LOL yes one of my best pals in HS in the 1970s had a Fiat X-19 and it did look cool and girls loved it but it basically had the same horsepower as a Singer sowing machine. Good one should have been in the video for sure.

I have a 78, I wanna make it fast, but I just tell people it is, lol, I don't race my buddies cars, and one has a Geo Metro and another has an Integra

I had a golf. Diesel that had 55 hp. ​@@timothyprice9064

I worked for the US Post Office. Our LLVs were powered by the Iron Duke. They turned gasoline into noise, vibration, and harshness...with some HP as a side effect. They were pretty reliable, too, in a "my engine runs like crap longer than yours runs, period" kinda way.

I had a 83 Camaro with the 2.5 or 151 cubic inch 4 cylinder Iron Duke with automatic transmission , I replaced it with a small block V-8 350 and 4 speed standard trans , I have a 92 RS Camaro that I'm doing the same thing too except this one is getting a 5 speed trans .

Why can't you just drive at the speed limit.

I had a '75 VW Sirocco , I used to love challenge late '70's Corvettes. They were faster but they weren't as quick.

Delorean goes over 88 lol about 110 mph

The Deloreon does NOT have a top speed of 88 mph. 88 mph is a reference to the Back to the Future movie where you had to reach that speed in order for the flux capacitor to work.

DeLoreans have a max of about 130mph manual/110mph slushmatic I believe

@@Sailed_away thats a turbo tho. na enigines normally dont get more than 100hp per litre except for very expensive or racing ones.

@@Sailed_away this is NA, and a very small V8 at that. Look at a 190hp 8.2l malaise spec Cadillac Eldorado if you want to laugh

Brilliant

You're not wrong, but I always figured that if I were to become extremely wealthy, I'd buy something like a Ferrari 488 Pista, drive within the speed limit, and wave politely to the Honda Civic driver as he dashed by at 15 mph over the posited limit on his way to the daily grind.

A few years ago I had a 2000 model V6 Camry with a 5-speed manual. I would surprise many other drivers with its responsiveness because I had no hesitation driving it around well up into the rev range where it made all its power. Most people with their off-the-shelf V8 autos etc would short shift all the time anyway, so they never brought their cars full potential to the table.

My personal amusement when driving is how people corner. I drive nothing special, an old Ford with a somewhat beefy suspension and good tires. Find it amusing how folks zip by in cars with significantly more potential on the straights like they are on their way to something important, only to get to a curve and slow drastically, losing the "lead" they built up 30 seconds earlier. That and folks not knowing the traffic pattern. Bomb it buddy, the light is going to change before you get there. I'll pull up ahead of you in the shorter lane because you didn't have time to react. Trivial, no harm done, but funny. 😊

@@jeffreybaker4399 Haha yep. Those people are often the same ones who don't look any further ahead than the rear bumper of the car in front.

Land Rover's Chinese knockoff actually names Land Wind 😆

If I owned a "Rand Lover," I'd be SO tempted to add a "y" to "Rand."

I guess it is the number one choice for all Ayn Rand fans.

Rots of ruck buddy.

The shit winds are blowin Rand.

I bet it was not slow back then in early 70s, according to European standards.

@@laszlobalogh7112it tops at around 102 mph

Kind of the same story with the Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia, which was essentially a WV beetle with a sporty body.

Except it was a 60's design so it wasn't. First generation Manta was a similar 70's design but without the party trick headlights.

It´s beautiful, but like @drakakaka wrote it was designed in the sixties. Video is bit misleading, since almost all Opel GT´s very 1,9 litre. They were moderately fast for the time.

Take off the solex carb witch was a one barrel carb the car came alive. Had 2 in high school. They were detuned for the states down to 110 hp. Over seas 190 hp Had fun racing mine Once you opened them up they would Rev to 8000 rpm you could shift into 4 gear at 100 mph. Fun little car. That was back in the 80s with today's tech that car would be scary fast .

Yup. I had a '70 GT in the late 80s, guy I bought it from had done a little work to it. Top speed listed at 110, while I never tried to find top speed in mine I can tell you I still had pedal left at 130. Weighing in at about 2,000 pounds that little 1.9 could move it along. It handled so well. Best twenty five hundred dollars I could have spent at the time. I've had much faster cars but still count it as one of the most fun cars I've owned.

I had that same engine in my 92 Thunderbird and it was anything but thunder, as it weight close to 4000 lbs with 0-60 in 12 seconds, while the Mustang with this engine was about 10 seconds if I remember correctly.

They also put the 2.5L iron duke in the firebird.

I bought a 1983 Camaro with the Iron Duke back in the early 2000's for $800. It was a rust free Las Vegas car fully loaded with power everything and cold A/C. I put the "dual" exhaust from the V6 on it to make it look and sound faster. The car was slow but adequate and the girls had no clue what was under the hood. 😅 I am sure if this car survived it has been LS swapped by now but it is probably gone forever.

That's not actually why they stuck the Iron Duke in the F-bodies. CAFE averages aren't vehicle specific. They're _corporate_ average fuel economies, meaning it didn't matter what car the engine ended up in, as long as they offered X amount of cars with that fuel economy. They could've easily just built more Cavaliers and Chevettes. The reason they offered the Iron Duke in the Camaro/Firebirds was because Ford offered the Mustang with a 4 cylinder. Both cars made the same amount of horsepower, but the Mustang had a 700 pound weight advantage over the GMs, so the weak performance was less noticeable on the Mustang. Further misunderstanding the appeal of the base Mustang, GM didn't even bother offering a turbo option on the F-body 4 cylinders. The Turbo SVO Mustang 4 cylinders actually outperformed the 5.0 HO GT Mustangs of the era, so people had a genuine reason to buy 4 cylinder Mustangs. There was zero reason for anyone to buy an Iron Duke Camaro, unless they just cared only about looks and had no concern whatsoever for performance, and decided to save $800 over the V6 or $1000 over the V8.

That is why Chevy has 2.7 L fours in a full size truck.

@@lrich8181 At least that four has 310 HP and 420 lbs of torque with a turbo.

Opel GT was also available with 90hp (which also sold much better) With 90hp and only 900kg, the GT was a fast car at the time that had good handling. People often forget that back in 1968 in Europe it wasn't normal to have a car with over 100 horsepower. Normal People drove an 30HP Beetle or something

Everyone, who drives it, says it's very fast 90hp.

Thank you for this. Totally agree. Never owned a sporty car, neither my father, but three different family Opels and they just grow on you. When I bought a Fiat Tipo instead of an Astra (same profile, price, but the Fiat offers more space) I did regret it. And enjoyed the better ergonomics in dad's Astra caravan the few times I got to drive it years later. Moreover, the nice GT doesn't even look really fast, so what's the problem? If anything it looks nimble, which it is (so I gather) and I guess so is the Porsche. I mean look at it, looks like a toy, why would you go over 100-110 mph in a toy??

IT WAS SLOW, BUT LOOKED FAST... there is no raging around that fact mate.

@@ripvanwinkle2002 It was a very fast car in Europe in that point of time. Keep in mind that many people owned VW Beetles in Europe during the 60’s and 70’s.

Slower that Trump walking down a slope

@Insectoid_ Is this the part where I'm supposed laugh? At something that isn't even funny?!? At least be clever

Slower than trump farting and sleeping in court.

@markholtz5538 Huh? You drunk? What does that even mean?!? You make absolutely no sense whatsoever

​@@billyclub9733it's officially recorded that he not only fell asleep in court nearly daily but when he was asleep, he began farting. Don't want to believe it? Fine, but you can look it up for yourself Oh yeah and he was convicted on every single count in that very same case. So yeah, first US president to ever be convicted of a felony, 34 of them to be exact. Sorry bud, it's now recorded history

You have almost 50 comments on this channel

This is your 48th comment

@@srihariandcodoes that matter??

@@whoisit8978 no? How did I offend you by saying someone has 48 comments on a RU-vid channel?

@@srihariandco oh yeah

Yeah, they're reliable engines. Just not feasible power these days for driving in heavy city traffic when jerks are trying to cut in front of you all the time. You have to be able to keep up or the people behind you will get upset.

Had a friend with a 912 in high school. It turned heads, and we all thought it was fast, because he would take you on the highway and mash the throttle to the floor for about a minute. My whole generation was mostly ignorant about real speed, just because nothing was fast. I had an Iron duke Fiero. Slow. A V6 Firebird, super slow. Everything on the road was slow back then, so if you could atleast shift the gears, you felt fast.

The Pope had a Mondial tho. Good bit of celebrity endorsement

I thought of ferrari 258

@@DittoGTIprincess Diana had an Audi Cabriolet.

@@briankissel7661And a custom MK1 Rangey

​@@DittoGTIthat old school hottie had taste.

Which still was not quick.

better grab the steering wheel and hold on

​@rich7447 well it goes nearly a 115 mph, which is faster than most Americans will ever drive 😅

@@Kilb-ill Quick is nothing to do with top speed. Quick is all about acceleration. Exactly how many countries have roads with a speed limit close to 115 mph/185 kph?

@@rich7447 You know Opel is a German company? Ever heard of the Autobahn?

1.4tdi?if u have that motor, its extra good and reliable

prowler might have sold if it had a v8 and a manual

At the time 5.5 sec 0-60 was really good for new cars of that era..Cars since 2015 went insane!

@@erics8192 ..True,but the Prowler was done more as a experiment,all aluminum body and chassis...Lots of the engineers who worked on the Prowler were hired by Ford to make the aluminum F series trucks... I dont think they expected high sales from that car anyways,but I wish it had a V8 and a stick.

Depending on which motor was in the trans am. Some of them were fast.

don't forget the toyota gt86

1990 version was so odd looking

Also cursed with a transverse front wheel drive powertrain.

Was it a 5.0L or a 5.7L? The 5.0L was an abomination of an engine. 5.7L was a good engine tied to a shitty auto transmission.

@@Admiral_Bongo Not sure. But it was slow.

The grocery getter was probably like many others.. A sleeper with a big block, lol. The kids knew it, that's why they were laughing 😂😂

the monte had the same motor and was heavier than the camaro

@@frankmartines3595 The Monte was also the fastest production car of it's year I believe, and he ended doing a bunch of performance upgrades to boot.

"Bitchin" Is that American for shit?

But these with V8s are enjoyable to ride. ❤

Seriously, they were slugs on wheels

@@glenw-xm5zfThey are hellish enthusiast cars, though. Very mod-friendly. While Fox body Mustangs had an issue of blocks cracking past a certain HP threshold, IROCs could be pushed real hard with mods.

I understood that reference!

thank you was shocked it took this many comments to find the Pontiac Fiero

@@jayg1438 The GT was actually a great runner. I had a GT-R with 170 STOCk (!) hp. Don't ask me why it was called the GT-R or how come it was tuned to 170 hp.

Right, they corner like a bastard.

remember those big ass 5 litre V8 and only produces like 140hp? lol

The Celica GT Manual is a completely different car than the auto. While still not fast by any means, the auto box in those cars was hot trash. A manual GT would outrun an auto GTS every day of the week

@@kevinwinkler2694 How is that relevant to what i said? 🤔

Agree with the posts above. I owned a 2000 Toyota GT. Was not fast per se, but was quick as hell. Someone else mentioned it, it cornered like a bastard, so light and nimble. I can liken it to driving a real life Super Mario Cart. 140HP and 120-130 ft lbs of torque got a VERY light car moving pretty quickly. It only weighed @2400 pounds - or less than 1.1 tons metric. 0-60 (100kmph) was about 7 to 8 seconds, and can get to 90-05 mph in a quarter mile. Not terrible for the base GT. I had a lot of fun in that little zippy. The Celica/ Miata/ MR2 Spyder or S2000 were all peers and were a blast to drive.

VW SP2

The Porsche 912 was an entry level 911 from 1965 to 1969 or so. Was a budget minded option but not a bad car per se.

True. I had a 96 with I think 220'ish hp, and that thing wasn't too fast either. Damn beautiful though.

Isn't the Stealth literally a rebadged 3000GT?

@@needfoolthings Yes.

I used to drive my friend's old Mini in the late 90s. You're absolutely correct.

Easily the Mustang Cobra II. Great styling, looked potent sitting still. The problem was that its top end was "sitting still."

Except V6 Plymouth/Chrysler Prowler was faster than new 4000 lb. 2 seater T-Bird w/ V8...

The heads on most 351Ws limited power to 250 HP or less... even with added go fast goodies...

88mph is all you needed from the DeLorean 😎

Saab, Volvo, BMW with their small (2.0,2.3)turbo engines....... So, i think europeans did.

You must have forgotten about the Porsche 930 Turbo.

@@YernBelfus400 💪

yes they were. 150 hp from a 5.7 litre v8 is pathetic. the same power from a 2 litre inline 4 is alright (for a car designed for economy). also its pot, not stove. pot calling the kettle black.

​@@hjalleson309 shit man, I'm driving a 1995 GMC Sierra with a 5.7 and I'm only making around 200hp. Sure, I like the torque it makes, cause it only revs to 4500rpm, but still. Only 200hp for a 350 cubic inch V8? Pathetic. Just like my old 1989 Ford E250. It had a 5.8/351windsor. It made the same horsepower as my current truck, but around 40 less torque. Every single V8 powered American vehicle from 1975 all the way to 1998 all made TERRIBLE horsepower, TERRIBLE torque, and got TERRIBLE gas mileage. T NONE OF THEM made enough power to justify getting such horrendous MPGs

The absolute intelligence in this video is too high for a mere mortal like me to comprehend...

I think a better comparison may be a miata?

​@@Sailed_awaymiata isn't a kei car, Suzuki Coopen is more similar

@@IrfanArio95 yeah not a kei car but it's appeal is more or less similar i guess ?

You'd probably like my custom MUGEN '09 TSX (in chrysler subLime custom paint w/ blacked out trim and wheels and MUGEN body kit and engine mods). Had it since brand new... slowly modded along the way ... ~110k miles on it.

Oh Canada...

...and cheaply built. I mean like tin can cheap.

The back woods Canadian farmers that Bricklin hired knew nothing about building cars... the cars couldn't be brought in under a practical cost... and the workmanship was horrible...

Had a 1984 Buick, Skyhawk T type and the car was slower than my buddies 1979 Chevette wtf.

Haha I also subscribed as soon as I heard that

You do realize that in America, anyone that anyone that wants to, can take their car to a track and go as fast as they want? Or that we have highways that aren't speed limited, just like the Autobahn? And I'm not sure what you mean by no American cars being capable of driving as fast as an Opel GT? The Opel GT had a top theoretical speed of 96 mph back when all American cars were capable of doing a minimum of 120mph. It's almost like you know nothing about America, yet are speaking as though you are an expert on all things Americana. Germany über alles, amirite?

@@RockandrollNegro You're so funny...! 🥱 🥱🥱 But it seems that your knowledge is not the yellow from the egg, funny boy...You're the proof, that Trump made America "great" again. 😂

@@RockandrollNegro "The Opel GT had a top theoretical speed of 96 mph back when all American cars were capable of doing a minimum of 120mph" Yea they could go to 120 but guzzled fuel like a tank, it`s mind boggling how the hell they managed to extract 120-130Hp from damn 5-6L engine, ridiculous.

The Corvette C3 was based on the 1962 XP755 concept car. Design began on the C3 in 1964 and went into production in 1967, which was a few months before the Opel GT. The design of the first Opel GT began in 1965. Just about any production vehicle has a top speed higher than is advisable on public roads and almost every production vehicle can take corners at the posted legal speed limit.

@@rich7447 Thank you this guy has no idea what he's talking about even the XP-833 Pontiac Banshee was made before the Opel GT

they're not that bad dude

@@blackxfiied_ no I mean slow car but looks very fast car

They do 6 second 0-60 tho

They're not too bad in 0-100 as it does it in 6 seconds. Thats not the worst and there are modern cars that are still slower than that. You won't get better handling than that though

GR86 is pretty fast for its power and being N/A. The GT86 on the other hand... nah

The 2.8 is quite lively, and to be honest even the 1.3 smallest engined one would beat most American barges of the time round a track!

First thing I did 25 years ago was RIP out the 5.0 for a 4 volt 350 then blow the tranny

They introduced the 350 IROC-Z later, though. And while it wasn't the fastest muscle car around stock, the L98 350 was simply a very choked engine with high potential. Exhaust mods, chip tuning, supercharger and a T56 transmission swap turn it into a monster.

I had an 87 IROC with the 350 TPI. It was a fun car. Period. Really nice throttle response, very punchy. I could give a sh*t less about 1/4 mile or 0-60. And the TPI was a beautiful setup to see when you opened the hood. Unlike the ugly LS that followed in 4th gens.

Same with my 09 Genesis 4.6. I'm hoping people keep overlooking Hyundai/Genesis so I can eventually get a 5.0 R-Spec for cheap in the future.

It's dope that you modified it. I had one that I traded because I didn't want to put any crazy money into it... should've just kept it and done the same thing.

Well tbf, they aren't rockets either. 4.8 sec stock in my Elantra isn't fast compared to most performance cars.

Man of culture

Tata owning Land Rover makes this more sus 💀

😂😂

I know what Rand Lover actually means.

Worth at least $15k now. Up to $100k for mint, original examples

Why? For lying about things? No 3rd gen Z28 like the ones he pictured EVER came with the iron Duke 4 cylinder. I know. I've owned around a dozen 3rd gens. That was the base model economy camaro which was NEVER a muscle car.

That video was about slow sports cars.

He just denied proclaiming Easter "transgender day of visibility" fvcking 24 hours later. He ain't in control of anything. Barry Soetoro holdovers were reinstalled when The Potatoe was implemented.

Ah, my mistake.

The Testarossa wasn't slow. It did 0-60 in 5.2 seconds, which is still quick even for today.

@@Kryptic1046 just looked like one lol

It's a Ferrari Mondial, 80s. A friend has one, perfect shape and fast enough