ultimate sleeper car

[otispunkmeyer]

http://www.channel4.com/4car/media/100-...3-large/116-vauxhall-lotus-carlton.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Lotus_Carlton

this was vauxhalls effort at a 4 door family saloon, released in 1986. 4 years later lotus get their mits on it.

3.6litre twin turbo I6 engine (garret T25 turbos), 377bhp, 419fl-lbf torque, 6 speed tranny from the corvette at the time, rear drive, 4 doors and a boot. and still looked like a boring beater of a vauxhall

0-60 in 5.2
177mph top speed.

they only built 950 between 1990 and 1992

 

[nakedfrog]

Would be better if it was an estate.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Not bad.

But I think the ultimate sleeper would be a Ford Taurus Wagon with a tweaked SHO engine and converted to RWD/AWD 😛

Or maybe those Miata's with GM V8's in em?

 

[NutBucket]

GNX FTW.

 

[ScoobMaster]

Nah,

my vote for ultimate sleeper has to go to..........

TURBO MINIVANS!

("Dude, you just got smoked by a Dodge Caravan!")

😉

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
GNX FTW.

The Buick T-Types were sleepers. The GNX was much more in your face. The T-types had the same underpinnings as the GNX w/ the standard Regal trim.

The ultimate sleeper would be a 1995 Buick Roadmaster wagon w/ Impala SS suspension parts and a Lingenfelter 383. Not even the cops would see you coming.

 

[vi edit]

The old Dodge Spirit R/T was quite the sleeper in it's day.

http://www.allpar.com/model/spiritrt.html

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: ScoobMaster
Nah,

my vote for ultimate sleeper has to go to..........

TURBO MINIVANS!

("Dude, you just got smoked by a Dodge Caravan!")

😉

Yeah, but I think we're limiting this to showroom stock cars?

 

[nakedfrog]

Just tone down the body a bit...

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Not bad.

But I think the ultimate sleeper would be a Ford Taurus Wagon with a tweaked SHO engine and converted to RWD/AWD 😛

Or maybe those Miata's with GM V8's in em?

Monster Miata with a Ford 5.0 with Vortech supercharger..
they used to build these alot...

remeber boys and girls Ford controls alot of Mazda interests.. the 5.0 fit perfectly in there =)

 

[ScoobMaster]

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: ScoobMaster
Nah,

my vote for ultimate sleeper has to go to..........

TURBO MINIVANS!

("Dude, you just got smoked by a Dodge Caravan!")

😉

Yeah, but I think we're limiting this to showroom stock cars?

Believe it or not - Chrysler actually *DID* produce some factory turbo minvans in the 80s!

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: ScoobMaster

Originally posted by: NutBucket

Originally posted by: ScoobMaster
Nah,

my vote for ultimate sleeper has to go to..........

TURBO MINIVANS!

("Dude, you just got smoked by a Dodge Caravan!")

😉

Yeah, but I think we're limiting this to showroom stock cars?

Believe it or not - Chrysler actually *DID* produce some factory turbo minvans in the 80s!

But they weren't rockets out of the dealer😉

 

[JulesMaximus]

This is up there on the list of ultimate sleepers.

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
This is up there on the list of ultimate sleepers.

I swear the more I see it the more I want to trade mine in for one!

 

[MisterJackson]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
This is up there on the list of ultimate sleepers.

Definition of a sleeper is something most people, car guys included, will not know as being a fast car. Most know a Subaru WRX STI to be fast, thus it can hardly be called a "sleeper"

 

[vi edit]

Take the "STI" badge off and looks like a normal WRX. It just happens to have 300 ponies instead of 225(or whatever the standard WRX has).

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Of course the original sleeper car, which inspired the beach song "Little old lady from Pasadena" was the 64 fury which came with a monster big block and 3x2 barrel carb, known as the six pack. I've got a buddy that has fully restored one, and it is sweet, from outward appearance it looks like a grannymobile. But fire it up and its a dead giveaway, sounds like the drag strip car that it is.

I just bought an 06 impala ss a couple of months ago, and this thing is quite the sleeper also. With the relatively bland styling, and overall lack of bling (except for a couple of small SS badges) it looks like any other 4 door sedan impala/camry/avalon/etc... on the road, but the beast that lies under the hood is amazing🙂 With 303hp of V8 goodness this thing performs almost on par with GT mustangs and the mopar hemi beasts (charger r/t, and 300C srt)

 

[b0mbrman]

Ultimate sleeper would have to be any normal car with a sweet ass driver behind the wheel. 😉

 

[thirdeye]

Haha, cool car, though I can't say I'd be proud own an car called a Carlton. For some reason that sounds less than appealing to me.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Originally posted by: thirdeye
Haha, cool car, though I can't say I'd be proud own an car called a Carlton. For some reason that sounds less than appealing to me.

Yeah I think "Fresh Prince of Belaire" ruined the name Calrton🙂

 

[Chrono]

Legacy GT FTW!!!!

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: thirdeye
Haha, cool car, though I can't say I'd be proud own an car called a Carlton. For some reason that sounds less than appealing to me.

A little too "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" for you? 😛
Heh, GuitarDaddy beat me to it.

 

[thirdeye]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy

Originally posted by: thirdeye
Haha, cool car, though I can't say I'd be proud own an car called a Carlton. For some reason that sounds less than appealing to me.

Yeah I think "Fresh Prince of Belaire" ruined the name Calrton🙂

Yes, I'm quite sure that's where the negative feelings from the name Carlton were spawned.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Not bad.

But I think the ultimate sleeper would be a Ford Taurus Wagon with a tweaked SHO engine and converted to RWD/AWD 😛

Or maybe those Miata's with GM V8's in em?

What is a sleeper car?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
What is a sleeper car?

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Definition of a sleeper is something most people, car guys included, will not know as being a fast car.