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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

Secondly is a small car a POS if it has a small engine? Not necessarily. It is an economy car. So if you put a large engine in a small car does that make it better?
In terms of speed/acceleration yes but fuel economy no.
Garbage cars cannot exist for long.

I've had plenty of low performance economy cars over the years, a bunch of them had <100hp. I have no problem with low performance cars and/or small engines, assuming they fit the car and perform reasonably. I have driven a few cars that just could not get out of their own way. Cars that were so slow that it felt dangerous pulling out into traffic in them. There certainly have been cars that were just bad. Are there any now, I suspect there probably are. Some people just don't care, and will drive anything that gets them from A to B

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I've had a lot of fun driving underpowered cars with OK brakes. (my first car was a 36 hp 1960 VW) The right pedal is just on-off. The bad brakes the OP describes are a different story. If an underpowered car still overpowers the brakes, that's a serious problem.

Absolutely, I've had lots of fun in cars with <100hp, but that doesn't mean that every low powered car is fun.

Originally Posted by Chas White

As someone —and I forget who—said, it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow.

Absolutely, I've had a great time driving like a nut at legal speeds in slow cars.