This VW Is The Fastest Looking Slow Car Ever

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Brazil has always been an alternate reality for VWs, with their long-closed borders forcing all kinds of interesting mutations and developments of the old air-cooled VW line. Without foreign sports cars to import, VW Brasil made their own: the SP2. Parked, it was the fastest car you've ever seen. Driven, well, not so much.

The SP2 was built on the Type III platform, and used the same flat-four, 1700cc "pancake" engine. Which made all of 75HP. Which gave the SP2 the Portuguese nickname "Sem Potência," which in English means "without power."

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But who cares? Going slow in this thing is a public service, so all the people can enjoy how 70s-sexy this thing is. These great pictures are from VW's vintage enthusiast site, and make for some lovely car porn.

Enjoy.