The ten slowest sports cars of all time

By Raphael Orlove | Jalopnik – Tue, May 22, 2012 1:23 PM EDT

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Take one look at these purpose-built sports cars and you'd expect them to be fast. You would be wrong. Even before we got used to powerful V6 Camrys, these ten rides chosen by Jalopnik readers were the slowest sports cars the world had ever seen.

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10) 1980 Ferrari Mondial

Suggested By: unhcampus

0-60: 9.4

1/4 Mile: 16.9

Why we want one anyway: The Mondial had the V8 from the sporty 308, but in a bigger, heavier, floppier body. In its first two years in the US, the Mondial had 180 horsepower and was over two seconds slower to 60 than even the crappy Corvettes of the time. Even though the back seats are for people without legs, it's a real Ferrari, with all the poise and panache you'd expect from the brand. And it's about a thousand times cooler than a chintzy 360 Modena.

Photo Credit: storem

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