The Volkswagen XL1: 147 mpg car.

[muriel_volestrangler]

44. flvegan said it, and that was what I replied to; you replied to me

Again, you calling something a 'joke' doesn't change reality.

"That would mean that there are just as many cars with UNDER 90 hp"

Not 'are'; 'were'. You brought horsepower (as opposed to acceleration) for late 70s and early 80s cars into this; we've seen some figures for the 1980s, and they back me up. "200+ hp sedans, 400+ hp super sedans and 500+ hp sports cars" were not sold in large numbers in the 1980s. There were plenty of cars with power well below 90hp; the Renault 5 (another very popular car) had engines ranging from 36hp to 108hp - the last being a sports version; all the rest were 62hp or less. Its competitors would have been similarly powered. In the next class up - the 3rd generation Ford Escort - we have 1.4L and 1.6L engines producing 75hp and 90hp (or a 1.3L engine, presumably producing less than 75hp).

Is the problem that you're having difficulty remembering the early 80s?