Well, yeah, because those have an appropriate amount of horsepower under the hood. My mum’s car at that point must’ve been a first-generation Opel Meriva: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Meriva#First_generatio… In the back of my head, I did also have this tidbit: The first generation, named “Meriva A”, was based on the third generation Opel Corsa C. So, take a car frame with the weight and height of a family van and put it onto the powertrain of a small car. Like, genuinely, I’m finding Meriva’s being sold online with 75 horsepower, which is as much as the Opel Corsa had back then. The Corsa wasn’t exactly known as a sports car either, so I’m really not surprised that its family van edition can’t accelerate. 😐