Sometimes it isn’t all about the go
Least powerful classic cars? Yes, you’ve read that right. And when compiling a list of this nature, it makes sense to choose an upper power limit as a first step.We’ve gone for 20bhp, and while that might seem very restrictive, it really isn’t. Many cars have had engines which produced far less than that.
There are many reasons for this. The car may have been intended to be very cheap and economical, or it may have had to meet certain regulations, or it may simply have been created at or before the turn of the last century, when 20bhp was really quite a lot.
We’ve chosen examples from all those categories in this retrospective selection of 30 of the least powerful classic cars, which runs in descending order of power output from the feeble to the almost non-existent.