The Cars You Don't Brag About

[Xfader]

Thought VW saying 'We know you guys are making an unpopular minivan, we want to do that too.' to Chrysler. was bad check out the Das Trabi Sport, or in German Das Trabi Sportart. Trabant got in touch with LADA and got to work on the Das Trabi Sport. If you didn't like that you got the Trabi HyperSport kit car.
As always I will compare 2 similarly priced cars of the period of 1983, an Alfa Spider, and a Porsche 924.And the price 3x what it cost to make $26,592 in 2014 dollars.

HP Trabi 40, Alfa, 110, Porsche 110.
0-60 Trabi 53.7, Alfa 9.8, Porsche 8.8
1/4 mile Trabi 30.7, Alfa 17.8, Porsche 17.0
MPG Trabi 15, Alfa 21, Porsche 20
Top Gear Trabi 2:20:17, Alfa 1:43.9, Porsche 1:44:0

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[Astraman]

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Eurrhmm, yeah....

[np1993]

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Eurrhmm, yeah....

This car deserves a special place in hell :-p

[VicVictory]

Does it come with a lifetime supply of toothbrushes to scrub the bugs from all those grilles?

[np1993]

On a positive note, with all of that air flow the engine likely runs at 12 degrees below zero :-p

[willempjuh2000]

Well, the CrapCar company has gone into advertising!

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[Astraman]

On a positive note, with all of that air flow the engine likely runs at 12 degrees below zero :-p

It was a luxury build 5 litre v8 small coupe so it needed a little cooling capacity, technically nice but ugly as f*ck

[Chipskate]

I thought it'd be my turn to embarrass myself with one of my not-so-great cars: the Higashi-Toyoko Spirit. Originally commissioned by motorcycle maker Higashi, it uses their revvy 1000cc all-aluminium inline 4 which is good for 60 horsepower and with the redline bumped up to 7700 rpm. Sounds like something the average teenager would love, right? WRONG! Toyoko mated it to a heavy fwd hatchback and thus spoiled what potential the engine had. 0-60? Almost 13 seconds. Top speed? Just about 90. Gas mileage? Barely breaking 31 MPG. Even the turbocharged model couldn't get out of its own way if it tried to. Needless to say, the model never hit showroom floors and was instead scrapped in favor of an RWD sports coupé. Aside from the obvious improvements in performance and fun-factor, the Sprint, as it was named, also had the advantage of not looking like this:

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Heh, that's pretty nice; it reminds me of those old kit cars that were sold in the 80's, except that most of them had even more anemic engines. Say, would you mind selling me one of those beauties (i.e. posting the .lua)? I'd really like to see how it would go with something like a turbocharged Rover V8 behind the seats

[Xfader]

Well, the CrapCar company has gone into advertising!

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Their luxury brand- "The Pursuit of Imperfection" "The Worst Or Nothing" "The Ultimate Crap Machine"

[VicVictory]

Do you reminisce about the 80's? No? Well, what's wrong with you? Oh. You were born in the 90's. Pansy. You must like air bags and cd players and all that other useless junk.

Let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we? Maybe to something your parents drove.

How about the 1983 Kiriminas?

Yeah, this epitomizes everything about cheap 80's cars. Look at that boxy styling. Just look at it. Sitting on those sleek 155mm tires. Go head. Pop the hood. Yeah, you like that wheezy 2-barrel carburetor? I bet you love those sexy pushrods, too. They were all the rage in the 80's. Just sitting there, pushing valves all day long. Now for the bitchin' stereo. What do you mean how do you tune it? That's what the knob is for. Just fiddle with it till the static is gone. What do you mean you don't know what static is?

*sigh* kids these days.

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You know, it's all about the horsepower for you kids these days, isn't it? Even on a cheap car. 130 isn't enough. Well let me show you what people used to have to get by on. Check out this dyno pull here. 62 horses. Yeah, we got around. You just had to be patient. I know that's a concept for you. Hey, where are you going? Get back here. I'm not done... ah, screw it.

Performance stats:
Top speed 97 mph
0-100kph 13.0 seconds
41.9m braking distance
18.78 second quarter mile @ 72 mph

[Kubboz]

62 horses might be a bit insufficient. 68 is completely fine though.

[Xfader]

That is begging for a GTi version! A crappy GTi version would be cool.

[np1993]

What happens when you cross a 800cc street bike engine, pop-up-headlights, a plastic body, oxcart suspension and wheels no thicker then those seen on a lawn tractor? You get a 2001 Yakushi-Hiro Tanto!

With an all aluminum 800cc capable of revving to 10,000 rpm, producing 66hp you can go 0-100km in 10.6 seconds. The 6 speed (that's right, 6 speed) you can manage a loft 47 miles per gallon AND have a top speed of roughly 150kmph.

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Its the sad, not fast car you never wanted as a kid but it was all you could afford at the used car lot.

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With the subtle grace of a pack of angry badgers it is nearly impossible to sneak out at night and go for a joy ride, your deaf great aunt who lives 30km away will hear you start this thing up!

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[strop]

That's the kind of car that made the headlines coz some kid thought pinching it for a joyride sounded like a great idea, only to be promptly rounded up by the cops

It might make a hilarious bait car if riced up enough.

I've yet to submit here, but now I know what I'm going to do!

[np1993]

That's the kind of car that made the headlines coz some kid thought pinching it for a joyride sounded like a great idea, only to be promptly rounded up by the cops

It might make a hilarious bait car if riced up enough.

I've yet to submit here, but now I know what I'm going to do!

There is a warning from the surgeon general in regard to the sound generated between 6 and 10,000 rpm printed in the owners manual and with the performance stats it would not do much good in a "high speed pursuit"