Originally Posted by Mike-in-Orange
Perhaps, but nobody expects an 11 second PT Cruiser and that is, after all, the point of this thread, isn't it?
No the point was a car manufacturer producing an off the show room sleeper. It is a much more rare thing when a major car manufacturer does it. Like the Omni or the Regal T-Type. You just don't expect they would approve, fund and engineer such a thing at the top executive level all the way to the showroom.
Modded sleeper cars are not all that special. I had one I should know. I had a 300hp Mazda MX-5. It was fun and it was a blast upsetting guys in Vett's and Porsches but it was not a "factory sleeper" and therfore not the same.