What "slow" cars would you love to own?
Discussion
A lot of PHers are obsessed with RWD, performance and handling but what about cars that don't have much performance or don't handle particularly well? Some cars still appeal to me to potter around in on a nice sunny day when I'm in no hurry to get where I'm going, holding up powerfully-built directors in their TVRs and I can still take pleasure in wringing out every ounce of performance from a "slow" car, especially if it handles tidily.
Before it gets silly and people start saying that 200+ bhp cars are slow, let's define "slow" as 100bhp or less.
To just potter around in, I would love to own any of these:
For thrashing to within an inch of its life:
I wish they did a Cooper S version but this is probably my favourite vehicle in the MINI franchise and the diesel would probably be reasonably fun to thrash about in!
These also. Technically not less than 100bhp but certainly not fast by todays standards.
What "slow" cars would you really like to own?
Before it gets silly and people start saying that 200+ bhp cars are slow, let's define "slow" as 100bhp or less.
To just potter around in, I would love to own any of these:
For thrashing to within an inch of its life:
I wish they did a Cooper S version but this is probably my favourite vehicle in the MINI franchise and the diesel would probably be reasonably fun to thrash about in!
These also. Technically not less than 100bhp but certainly not fast by todays standards.
What "slow" cars would you really like to own?
We used to use Suzuki jimnys as work cars. They (at least our work ones) are so dangerous on the road they are funny, but once you get in tune with them it takes serious skill and balls to hustle them along. 
I currently have a Focus st170 and a Shed of a Citroen ZXtd. I haven't used the focus in months it will be going up for sale soon as i just always find myself taking the shed. Slow, noisy, crap steering, bad body-roll and terrible brakes. But you really have to be "on it" to keep it at NSL speeds on the local roads and i don't think i have gone above 65mph in the last month. Looking at a 1.6 Eunos later on this summer if the shed fails it's MOT.
ETA Jimnys offroad are amazingly capable, they are just terrifying on tarmac.
I currently have a Focus st170 and a Shed of a Citroen ZXtd. I haven't used the focus in months it will be going up for sale soon as i just always find myself taking the shed. Slow, noisy, crap steering, bad body-roll and terrible brakes. But you really have to be "on it" to keep it at NSL speeds on the local roads and i don't think i have gone above 65mph in the last month. Looking at a 1.6 Eunos later on this summer if the shed fails it's MOT.
ETA Jimnys offroad are amazingly capable, they are just terrifying on tarmac.
100hp slow!
Most fun I have had in cars were properly slow and low-powered cars. You have to drive them flat out all the time to get anywhere. It also means you learn teh value of inertia, and techniques to get around corners without ever touching the brakes.
Ones I had:
Mini 850 (29hp)
DAF 33 (don't know, but a 700cc air-cooled twin was never going to be lairy)
Most fun I have had in cars were properly slow and low-powered cars. You have to drive them flat out all the time to get anywhere. It also means you learn teh value of inertia, and techniques to get around corners without ever touching the brakes.
Ones I had:
Mini 850 (29hp)
DAF 33 (don't know, but a 700cc air-cooled twin was never going to be lairy)
k off slow!
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