The Cars You Don't Brag About

[QuantoSolo]

Impressive the Gumbo engineers managed to improve the 50-75mph by a hundredth of second or two before releasing the data sheet of the Stumpy. Even more so since the top speed was still stuck at 74.8 mph.

Well, over the years the car was somewhat run down but the time for the quarter mile is still more or less the same. Isn't that all that counts? If not, it pulls even more g in corners, if the currently owning Jethro manages to stay in his seat doing so. The car is now rolling.. slightly more, but that just shows to how breathtaking cornering speeds the downforce producing rear wing enables this car. In fact, it's actually cornering at faster speeds than it manages on a straight!

On a more serious note, while these figures probably should mean that it's impossible to accelerate this car to a speed to let it fail on the 250m circle track I hope these cars really can't go faster through the corners of a test track than its straights.

[willempjuh2000]

Well, this is my car.... The CrapCar GTi

Ehm...., The chassis is based on a MK3 Toyota MR2, the fiberglass body is handmade , and it has a 2.5L engine with 131 HP.... Aaand for extra sportiness: 4-speed automatic w/ overdrive...

This is just awful....

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Slow.....

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Again slow....

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Buy it now, and enjoy it not, because it's crap!

[np1993]

^ I like it, its looks fancy enough to fool ladies at the club that you make a six digit income, until you start the car up

[rileybanks]

Oh boy. This is a perfect opportunity to showcase the first car I ever made in Automation. Of course, since it was in an earlier build, I'll have to remake it, but in essence it was my first attempt at a fast sports car and it ended up being slower around the track than a city runabout with 1/4 the power because I tuned it horribly badly xD

I'll probably do the same. 1:18 with max quality and downforce...

[willempjuh2000]

^ I like it, its looks fancy enough to fool ladies at the club that you make a six digit income, until you start the car up

It has a pretty decent sound (well, because there aren't any mufflers or cat's...), but it is very very slow...

[VicVictory]

^ I like it, its looks fancy enough to fool ladies at the club that you make a six digit income, until you start the car up

It has a pretty decent sound (well, because there aren't any mufflers or cat's...), but it is very very slow...

It still beats the Subby around that track by about a minute.

Unfortunately, based on how it looks, one would expect it to be about a minute thirty faster.

[TheColoredCow]

Warning! this is a bloody awful car!

ze shitu is good 2 siter car wit lods off funn to bi hadd
wit a gret 40 hp 400cc I4 that will mek your ers bleed becos it haz no mufflorz and you will have ze power to not even overtake in a parking lot
it is ze car you need to bai yo teen age child when dei get ze driving licence it haz everting yo wil nedd
like an enginn and wiils and fabric front siet BUY NAO OLNI 1000$ FO DIZ SHITU!

[np1993]

^ Much performance, very power. With such JDM street rep it will be in great demand from the aged 18 and under

[VicVictory]

Man, you need to post a screen cap of the performance of that beast there.

I smell a natural rivalry with the Gumbo Stubby!

[Xfader]

In 1981 Xfader Motors was in trouble. Lada bought a 35% stake in Xfader Motors, took the Riva sedan made an in 1982 made a sports car.
The Sportivnyy by LADA [sports in Russian]
'Chassis made by Italy's #1 car maker!' Yes if a 1960's FIAT 124 platform sounds like an exciting sports car for the 80's, your lying.
It got a Fun to Drive rating of 0.1.

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It had a high reliability rating but the Soviet steel was more like tissue paper, so these are very rare. And a $20,000 [twice as much a it cost to make] in 2014 dollars sounds good, check the performance.
Lets see it compared to a rival FIAT Spider at the same price.

HP 40, FIAT 80
MPG 18, FIAT 22
0-60 31.5, FIAT 9.0
All with a 2:7:70 time around the Top Gear track.
Made the car for this post.

[Jakgoe]

31+ seconds? An F1 car could go from 0-100-0 SEVEN times before yours reached 60!

[np1993]

31+ seconds? An F1 car could go from 0-100-0 SEVEN times before yours reached 60!

That is why the car made it on the list :-p

The 'Stubby' had a 80 second 0-100 time at one point

[VicVictory]

And I am proud of that fact.

Great work, Xfader! Truly the finest in socialist garbage. hehe

[Xfader]

31+ seconds? An F1 car could go from 0-100-0 SEVEN times before yours reached 60!

AND the F1 car could go 3x faster around the top gear track the the Sportinvyy by LADA

[Xfader]

And I am proud of that fact.

Great work, Xfader! Truly the finest in socialist garbage. hehe

Thanks!The Trabant sport coupe may or may not come soon.