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Originally Posted by AJI

The problem isn't inherently the power figure, so much as the power figure in context of other traffic. With this car's 54bhp (and weight somewhere in the high 700kg range, or call it 1700lbs) I'm far from a road block for other vehicles but the performance is pretty marginal sometimes, and even in the UK, a lot of other road users treat small cars like dirt, so it's nice to be able to put some distance between other cars sometimes - my Peugeot, at just over 100bhp and weight of 890kg/1960lbs, plus a manual gearbox and much better handling, feels way more comfortable in modern traffic.

I might be more used to "underpowered" cars than you, even though there are some maniacs around driving powerful rides who eventually may seem like a threat to someone driving a more austere econobox.