Slowest car you ever had?

[Darkenergy]

OK since everyone on here always brags about the fastest car they ever had, why not have a post on what the slowest car you ever owned. These cars must meet the following:

1) powered by a motor (No pushing)
2) somewhat worked
3) heavier/Lower HP the better

To start it off, I myself had a 83 Tercel that pushed about 50HP or something like that at bout 2000.

[-relk-]

My civic only has 117 hp...

[beyond_ban]

Once upon a time i had 88 Mazda 323 Sedan. The thing was to sick. Painted the hood black and graffitied the shit out of it. 1.6L FI engine with a 5 speed pushing around 60HP i would dare to say.

[dimi]

1995 Geo Metro 1.3L 3 cylinder. I couldn't really get it over 150.

[GQBalla]

slowest car i ever drove was a geo firefly when i was getting my civic fixed.

slowest car i have is the 04 civic i still drive :D

[stealth1313]

Ha talked about the geo, I had a chevy sprint when I was 14 with the 1 litre 3 cylinder engine. Made like 55hp . So slow...

[Axe]

1979 Malibu 4 door sedan. 3.3L v6 (i think). Top End when I got it was 105 kph - blew black smoke out the exhaust - worth every bit the $100 I paid for it :)

[Jlude]

1986 Honda Prelude, It was the 2.0 Special Edition - Slowest car I've ever owned.

[JRSC00LUDE]

A 1979 Dodge Omni. But the roof-rack, wood grain side panels and mag wheels more than made up for it.

[bjstare]

1991 Accord EX-R. Not that bad in comparison to the cars above haha.

[masoncgy]

Originally posted by stealth1313
Ha talked about the geo, I had a chevy sprint when I was 14 with the 1 litre 3 cylinder engine. Made like 55hp . So slow...

hahaha yeah me too. I used to have a 1991 Firefly... slow as molasses, but great on fuel.

My old 1980 Mustang 2.3L/auto coupe was pretty damn sluggish too... in fact, I would say it was probably the slowest car I ever owned.

The Firefly had a manual, so it could at least *sort of* get moving... the Mustang, no. It was like 0-60 in 20+ seconds...

The Mustang ended up with a 351W & C4 transplant... so I suppose it was the slowest car I ever owned for a brief period of time... ;)

[Redlyne_mr2]

I had a 1986 Honda Civic Sedan with the Hondamatic tranmission, that was damn slow. I think my 1984 toyota 2wd carburated truck was slower though. My current Land Rover is also pretty damn slow lol.

[AndyL]

Define slowest? :)

My old 60s austin mini was absolutely anemic with it's worn out motor - but cornered like a mofo. Was pretty competitive in autox - but merging onto deerfoot, the onramp was never long enough :)

80s lada niva was a dog; but offroad - near unstoppable.

70s Mach1 Fast on the 1/4 but you start needing to turn (ie going through kickinghorse) and you were slower than the mini... Big block drank up so much fuel you couldn't pass a gas station without stopping - so long distance trips took forever...

[j.garner]

91 GMC tracker 5spd 1.8L of fury. It would top out at about 140

[syeve]

I had a 1983 prelude - slow...real slow.

[shutterbug_art8]

1987 Nissan Micra, auto. Hard time getting up the Center ST lion bridge.

[adam c]

1990 integra gs

[drtoohotty1]

89 corolla SR5 1.6l carb 95 hp stock 20 years ago and i drive it today thank god its a 5spd and i can redline every gear to keep up with traffic

[MGCM]

I dunno what the HP is(and i'm too lazy to look it up) but i had a 1986 Corolla 4dr, manual at least but lol no power in that thing at all.

[StreetRacerX]

Going to go with my 95 Dodge Avenger i4 5spd rated at 140bhp.

[4lti]

89 Honda CRX Si
Hills were a bitch...

[Aleks]

1.4L 55hp. I drove this one summer. Learned manual on it.

http://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/427901/R5_LeCar_Canada.jpg

[Deetz]

Ha ha

1980 Toyota Tercel

1.5L carb making 60hp, it was an auto to boot :P

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/deetzcrx/1980-toyota-corolla-tercel-hatchbac.jpg

[dj_rice]

1988 Nissan Multi

[r3ccOs]

63hp 1.3L Suzuki Samuai

later upgraded to a whopping 90hp 1.6L EFI, man what a difference

[B20EF]

1984 Nissan kingcab Diesel - 4 banger. Probably low 30's in the quarter mile but extremely good on gas.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Either my 1998 Ford Escort ZX2 (130HP, 127LB Ft) or the Jeep (190HP Some Torque)

[max_boost]

First car. 1988 Camry. Drove it for a year :D

[DeeK]

1990 Acura Integra GS. Slowest piece of crap ever.

I can't believe it was slower than my '96 VW Golf CL, pushing a massive 87hp at the flywheel.

[HHURICANE1]

74 Ford Pinto. I used it when I was motocrossing. The worst was coming back from Lethbridge. With the bike and trailer on behind flat to the floor was 50 mph and no more. I liked that car though.

[3drian]

89 crx. it was pretty slow

however the 98 civic I drive as my winter car is super slow I always get scare when tryin to pass someone on the highway, no power at all

[Sentry]

This was my first car, a geo metro... And it had bad compression. So probably about 40 horsepower at the crank.

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[bulaian]

Originally posted by beyond_ban
Once upon a time i had 88 Mazda 323 Sedan. The thing was to sick. Painted the hood black and graffitied the shit out of it. 1.6L FI engine with a 5 speed pushing around 60HP i would dare to say.

i had a 1993 mazda 323 as my first car, same crappy engine too

[gretz]

1984 crx... 78hp, carburated (with choke knob), 3500ft elevation>

I took this thing to lake louise - it took over 10 seconds in 4th, down a hill - to go from 100 - 110 lol

[core_upt]

Originally posted by 4lti
89 Honda CRX Si
Hills were a bitch...

really? they weighed nothing, I had mine over 200km/h and doing 160 was no issue. I'm not saying it was fast, but I wouldn't consider it tough to get up a hill!

[Genjuro]

1992 Integra gs... honda. :poosie:

[nj2Type-S]

1988 nissan sentra xe

i actually had 2 of these cars and both of them crapped out on me after around 280,000 km. lol!

[2ndgenlude]

86 prelude special edition. had 400k on it. took it to the dyno for shits and giggles and it put down 86whp and 101wtq. guys were astonished a honda put down more tq then hp lol.

[03ozwhip]

my first car 1986 mercury topaz. awesome.

[tehwegz]

my current... 1994 Accord LX 4dr

4 cyl 2.2L 130hp / 139tq, 4spd auto.

I love the handling on it. I drive a 08 Civic 4dr sometimes and the handling is horrible in comparison. New Honda's </3

I hope it'll last me to 400k, currently at 199k. Friend has a 95 EX one @ nearly half a million km's.

[sillysod]

100% worst performing vehicle ever

I had a 1981 Chev with the 6.2L normally aspirated diesel in it.

Wow was it a dog. Would fight to hold 110km/h on a slight hill.

I had a friend that has a Pontiac Paresianne (sp?) that had the 5.7L diesel in it..... even worse.

[Jeremiah]

85 Honda CRX, 5Spd, slow as shit lol

[jsn]

86 mr2. ~ 112 horsepower stock.

[AndyL]

Originally posted by sillysod
100% worst performing vehicle ever

I had a 1981 Chev with the 6.2L normally aspirated diesel in it.

Wow was it a dog. Would fight to hold 110km/h on a slight hill.

I had a friend that has a Pontiac Paresianne (sp?) that had the 5.7L diesel in it..... even worse.
82 was the first year for the 6.2diesel ;)

[moka989]

97 tercel hatchback, shit brown with rust marks everywhere.

[Zewind]

Originally posted by cjblair
1991 Accord EX-R. Not that bad in comparison to the cars above haha.


Lol, my first car was the 91 Accord LX


But the 99 Toyta Rav4 had problems driving up the hill on 14st NW near SAIT. I was so scared one winter I thought it was going to start slipping backwards

[403Gemini]

89 integra with a bunk distributor and poorly tuned timing belt... had to rev to about 4-5k just to move the damn thing, riding the clutch till i got to about 30 km/h.

[civiclvr]

Lol.. First car! 1978 Mazda GLC! slower than the neighborhood dogs!
sold it within 2 months
never really got a fast car
"graduated" to a '84 hyundai pony
then 2 Chevy Sprints.. they at least felt a bit quicker

So yes.. my honda feels fast now in comparison.

[corsvette]

Its a toss up for me
1991 Volkwagen Golf with the natural Diesel engine,had 400,000kms and lots of blow-by,car would top out at 130kph.

Also had a early 80's Cadillac De Ville with the 4.1l V8,i remember driving it home to Spokane from BC and getting passed by big rigs and motorhomes going up hills.

[Gibson]

99 1.0L 3 cylinder Metro.

Sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

[silviak91]

Toyota hilux surf turbo diesel 36 hp but miss that truck.

[Masked Bandit]

1985 Dodge D50 truck. 2.4L Mitsubishi motor in that thing.

The worst vehicle I've been in was an early '80s Ford Ranger with a diesel motor. Did you even know those things came with a small diesel? A close second was an mid-80s Renault Fuego (sp?). It had a hell of a moonroof though.

[jake1er]

1991 integra with a B18A1

[Ukyo8]

2005 chrysler 300 lol

I think they advertised them at 250 horsepower? and it was heavy as shit

[95teetee]

oddly enough, it would have to be the yellow one in my sig (although people seem to be afraid to line up beside it at a light because it looks kinda mean).

the lumina with a bad head gasket that I bought for a winter beater last year would walk away from it:rofl:

[Kloubek]

97 4-cylinder jeep TJ. I couldn't even go the speed limit when travelling through the pass when going to BC.

Still, a surprisingly fun vehicle to drive.

[92s13SR20]

my 1992 pontaic LeMans....i think it was a 1.9L Daewoo engine that couldnt have over 50hp

[YamahaV8]

Let's see...

1983 Ford ranger with the 2.9L V6. It had poor compression on all 6 cylinders and would smokes and puke oil out the breather from all the blow by.

1991 Buick Regal. Had the 3.8L V6 which made good torque but the car must have weighed well over 4000lbs and had 380,000kms on it.

[snmguy]

porsche 997

[barmanjay]

hmmmm

1985 chevette,.... automatic,... takes the cake for me.

[.jl-]

1995 Toyota Corolla - automatic

[theken]

90 ford probe non turbo was like a 18 19 second car. My jimmy used to have 2.8l v6 and was slow as hell. 87 sundance was slow as hell. 85 civic hatch. Yet again slow as hell. Slowest. Probably the civic

[speedog]

Geez, after reading all these posts I don 't feel to bad about the 1980 El Camino (still sitting in my garage - 2nd car I owned) that only had a 165HP 5.0 liter V8 pushing around it's 3400 pounds or the 1977 Datsun 200SX that was my first car that had a 2.0 liter 105hp I4 pushing it's 2200 pounds.

[D. Dub]

Stock 1972 Datsun 620 Pick Up

[pf0sh0]

1996 pontiac grand prix

[gpomp]

08 civic

[Kloubek]

Originally posted by barmanjay
hmmmm

1985 chevette,.... automatic,... takes the cake for me.

Doesn't get much slower than that Jay! :)

[Alak]

58 Land Rover. I once got it to 80kmph on the flat. That was near top RPM in 4th Gear. They say if you go over 90, it blows the headgasket because the motor turns too fast. I think it had about 45HP at the crank.

I had to drive on the shoulder for awhile before I could merge on the highway. I've never drove the Deerfoot 500 with it.

[wintonyk]

i had an 88 325e I think it was pushing 120 hp. Of course this was the economic version with a redline at like 4500 rpm

according to the specs the 0-60 was almost 10 seconds

[D911]

Originally posted by DeeK
1990 Acura Integra GS. Slowest piece of crap ever.

I can't believe it was slower than my '96 VW Golf CL, pushing a massive 87hp at the flywheel.

really?! i had a 94 integra rs, and i thought those were about inline with the Older GS/GSRs?

i was gonna say my slowest car was my 94 golf CL, fucking useless 1.8L, fucking slow as balls, what didnt help the situation were my two giant 12" subs/box that weighed a ton.

really loved the basss back then i suppose :P

oddly my D17 civic is only a hair quicker i think.

[962 kid]

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2cv.jpg

game, set, match. 1982 Citroen 2CV. 600cc 29hp 2 cylinder. Redlyne can attest first-hand to the colossal acceleration

[psycoticclown]

^^LOL. Can't even imagine that thing going faster than 60kmph with a full car haha.

1988 Ford Tempo... 92hp I think.

[HondaKid]

1962 VW Bug, 41,000 original miles, no radio, no heater and mint. See if I can find a pic somewhere. Slow was fast for this car, eh too cute to care. Never left me stranded, what more could I ask for? Sold it two years after buying it, replaced spark plugs, windshield ($50) and two tires. Made $1,200 on the sale, never done that since and I have blazed through eight cars post VW.

I also had a 1964 Corvair, bought fan belts by the six pack. It was slow but seemed fast when a city cop t-boned me in an intersection. He had no lights on, was going to a serious accident on the edge of town. His fault, but screwed me for a hockey game that night. Us goalies are a fragile lot, made me get the pull for the first time.

I have a thing for 60's cars.

Had a 1982 VW Westfalia diesel, ever been passed going uphill by a Pinto? I have. One had to not so much drive the Westie as anticipate and aim, I stopped for nothing if there was a hill to be had.

[HondaKid]

Originally posted by 962 kid
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2cv.jpg

game, set, match. 1982 Citroen 2CV. 600cc 29hp 2 cylinder. Redlyne can attest first-hand to the colossal acceleration

Is there a cooler car? Advanced for the times.

[Eken9]

1988 plymouth voyager with bad compression and bad tires. Holy, that thing was a sack of shit.

[HondaKid]

Originally posted by D. Dub
Stock 1972 Datsun 620 Pick Up

I had a 510, would it have been faster? The off gassing of the vinyl interior had a certain scent.

[Goodfella]

s95 mustang 3.8L 150hp, tweeked the throttle
response at the time and felt like I was God over
entry level rices haha especially civics.

[Darkenergy]

everyone is grilling the civic, when my first car was the civic 98 auto hatch. I thought that was pretty decent and fun. But then again my Tercel was fun in a dangerous way too...

+ I never had a car that I could leave the keys in the ignition and it would still be there after. :dunno:

[Luang]

My first car a 87 Ford Escort -40 km/h uphill lol no joke :facepalm: such a bad day :facepalm:

[cycosis]

1968 Chevy Impala. It had a 327 small block V8. I think stock it was around 300 HP, but I switched the 2 barrel to a 4 barrel carb, new intake manifold, New Air filter, and dual exhaust. Then again the blocka nd internals are freakin old so I have no idea what it was putting out but the car was ridiculously heavy so it was slow. It beat a certain beyond member`s firefly though back in the day.... :D

[derran.m]

none of my cars have really been that slow .... not sure of the exact hp but IMO slowest car i HAD was the 1973 Dodge Dart 318 cid V8 2-bbl carb ... 4 door lime green beastly piece o crap!!!
Slowest car i HAVE is my 1989 Dodge Ram D250 3/4 ton long box pickup ... 360 cid v8 but only 3-speed tranny ... so 80-100 is about the limit, without running the poor thing at real high rpm

[ekguy]

I've had plenty of slow cars...And all my slow cars have been honda's. I had an 86 accord, slow as balls...Then my EK...Slow as balls...Now my Integra...Slow as balls hahaha.

I had a 2nd gen integra but it had a brand new engine with some mods and seemed pretty quick.

Only fast cars I've had we're my fc rx7 and my Legend. Both of which are not even that fast.

Also had a pretty damned slow Explorer...

[Mitsu3000gt]

Mitsubishi 3000GT was my first & slowest car.

[scary_perry]

Pontiac 6000 LE or 1986 VW Golf Wolfsburg Edition

[Gary@UrbanX]

1997 Jetta 2.0....until I dropped a turbo in it and blew the motor.:rofl:

[98brg2d]

Slowest top speed - my truck (Dakota 4.7 V8)

Slowest acceleration - Saturn Astra, this is a momentum car, it handles pretty well so I have to keep the speed up around corners or I am stuck. I once got stuck behind an old Park Avenue going through Crowsnest pass, I caught the old bastard every corner but couldn't keep up to him on the straights. My co-workers always ask why I drive slow and I have to tell them my foot is already on the floor
:banghead:

[zieg]

Probably my 87 v6 firebird. I think the stock spec was 140hp and the thing weighed at least 3000 lb. I know it had under 100 whp, but I was in highschool so naturally I thought (and drove it like) it was a rocket. :(

It had a pretty lame attempt at a DIY cold air intake, cat delete, flowmaster 80 series muffler (I think??) and that was about it. Didnt have money to do anything else to it, thank god.

[FivE.SeveN]

88 Cavalier, it was my grandma's old car..

She never took it above 50 :rofl: That engine was hurting!

[CSMRX7]

Mine is a tie.

A 1972 Land Cruiser, and a 1967 MGB.

[Neil4Speed]

1985 Audi Coupe Gt. I didn't really drive it though.

[Mr_ET]

1998 Toyota Tercel 93HP of goodness

[bituerbo]

2000 chrysler neon w/ 3speed auto, my current commuter car.
132 hp when new, I'd guess about half that remains since the bitch up to 305,000km.

I had a couple of 110hp cars (a civic and a sidekick) but those both had 5spd manuals and MUCH better acceleration.

[n1zm0]

Originally posted by Darkenergy
To start it off, I myself had a 83 Tercel that pushed about 50HP or something like that at bout 2000.

LOL my parents bought a brand new 1983 Toyota Tercel Wagon 4wd a year before i was born, i remember going on trips all the way to vancouver and i understand now why it took us 2 fken days, looking at the specs now it was 1.5L 62 HP with dual-barrel carburetor... lugging around a family of 4 with a 4wd drivetrain underneath it all on the mountain roads haha

anyways this was the slowest car i've ever had, by the time i got to drive it there was probably only 45 HP left i bet , as soon as i turned 14 i was driving this thing everywhere with the rents, i learnt how to drive in this thing during the winter as well as learnt manual tranny in it, no power steering, bald as fk tires, shot to crap steering rack, but i fken loved driving it, taught you how to get the most out of a bare bones piston engine. the only reason we got rid of it was we had too many cars, it was bulletproof, reliable as hell and super rugged, i called it 'The turtle'. it was at about 445k kms when we gave it to the kidney foundation iirc,

looking more into it i found these awesome JDM 80's ads all filmed in the rockies here, probably near banff or jasper haha

and i did pull doriftus with the 4wd on in the snow every chance i got when i was 16 lol there are also surprisingly alot of off-road vids of these things on youtube

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[Tomaz]

I have had 4 that all share the same 1/4 mile times:

1996 Ford Taurus - 17.4 (First Car)
1997 Crown Vic - 17.4 (Second Car)
1995 Volvo 850 NA - 17.4 (Third Car)
2009 Mazda 3 - 17.4 (Current Car)

I want something faster dammit!!!!!!!! I'm sick of seeing 17.4!!!!!!!!
:banghead:

[Kloubek]

They sure tried to make that Tercel look fun!

[ArjayAquino]

Mine was a 2008 Pontiac Wave.. 103 HP baby. :poosie:

[barmanjay]

Originally posted by Kloubek


Doesn't get much slower than that Jay! :)

It even had dead struts,.. in high school I used to play with the gas and brake and get the front end bouncing,.. LOL

soooooo bad,.. every corner during lunch my buddies had to tilt their drinks to keep them from spilling,.. so surprised it never rolled over with amount of body roll it had.

LOL


so bad!

[btimbit]

The '99 Chevy Cavalier Z24 that I bought a few years ago. On paper, my '02 VW Golf should be the slowest, but this Cav is fairly painful. I still drive it as a winter and errands car

[911fever]

definitely my 1998 Infiniti QX4 - put out a paltry 180hp for its weight

[Vanner]

LOL... Of all cars I've drove, the one I remember being the slowest was my mom's 1981 black Mustang coupe with 4 cyl with auto shift. That damn car had barely any power in there! When my mom brought it the day - to my shock when she told me what engine it had. I told her "you didn't! - serious?" and I then tried to explain her that it's not worth the money to keep the engine in running shape since there were already enough reviews and reports to show the 4 cyl engines of the first 3 years (1979-82) weren't that good.

Of course - she didn't believe me ... I was 17-ish at that time, lol. I said to mom," Fine, it's your car, mom - wait and you'll see why"

Like I knew... after a couple of years later and some few hundred bucks spent on engine, mom come to me and admit that I was right. She sold it away to one of her friends.

I had took that car for a few trips and man, it was so SLOW! I've had the pedal to floor and the best I had got up to 90 kmH tops!

The second slowest car was the '88 Nissian Micra 4-door - darn slow but it sure was a great winter car!