Least Powerful/Slowest Rallycar

[JAG]

Everyone talks about the quickest/most powerful rallycar but what was the least powerful/Slowest rallycar ever to compete.

Apparantly the Trabant may return to rallying as its going to be produced in another country? as a low cost car.

[Lee Janotta]

Volkswagen?

[ss_collins]

I rally a Volkswagen and its not slow.

Trabant I'd say

[imull]

850 Mini or the 875 Imps.

[Alpina]

the slowest and probably least powerful rally car ever was my 1300 Mk1 Escort. I dropped a valve which broke and wore a hole through the piston. Had to do 12 miles of fast tarmac on the Jim Clark with a max speed of 25mph on 3 cylinders.

[glyn parham]

The Steyr Puch and Wartburg's seen in the late sixties early seventies probably rank as the slowest rally cars ever seen, they were (if I remember correctly) two stroke engines of approximately 600cc.
Another contender would be the Citreon BX 4x4 Turbo group B car, although it should really rank as the biggest turkey of a rally car.

[429CJ]

That Citroen had about 1 meter front overhang...

[imull]

Yeah, and that was the only thing going for it lol

[KA]

Originally posted by glyn parham
The Steyr Puch and Wartburg's seen in the late sixties early seventies probably rank as the slowest rally cars ever seen, they were (if I remember correctly) two stroke engines of approximately 600cc.

You could probably add the Citroen 2CV- a number of those have been rallied over the years. Back in the 50's a guy named Michel Bernier drove a 2CV 17500km across Africa- on returning to France they then took the same car on the Monte- starting from Oslo, naturally....

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/9896/2cv-exp1.htm

[SJ Spode]

You'll probably find out that there were a few good candidates in the first RAC Rally (1932) when rallies were more reliability tests than the closed stage events we've come to know over the past 40 years.