That might not be good for Buick sales, but for people trying to avoid attention, it's perfect. To everyone else, it looks like your run of the mill Grand Cherokee, but to people who truly know, it's a 5,000 pound rocket with a sledgehammer of an engine under the hood. Fast forward to 2017. There are no fins, wings, or rally-inspired stickers to hint at the power that lurks beneath the hood. By Arun Singh Pundir Oct 14, 2019. And when no one was looking, Ford slapped a “Sport” badge on and gave the Fusion AWD and a 3.6-liter V6. And in 2008, Subaru did a full redesign on the Impreza line, which dialed back the massive hood scoop — making it much more restrained and even better looking. This Audi may look like a station wagon, but it’s actually a Porsche in disguise — kind of. No, at first glance it’s unassuming, hidden high performance — until it’s needed. The result is 330 hp, which is more than most V8 Mustangs made a decade ago. No SHO marketing or “race proven” associations — just a next-level trim you’d miss if you didn’t know it existed. Here, in no particular order, are 12 of the best sleepers built in the last 25 years. The Chevrolet Cavalier was not a good car, and while its followup, the Cobalt, was a significant improvement, it still wasn't a great car. During the World Wars, Allied navies equipped seemingly harmless merchant ships with guns and torpedoes to ward off prowling German U-Boats. Time to wake up and smell the exhaust fumes. At first glance the GTI may look like a sensible family hatchback, but this VW is one of the founding fathers of the hot-hatch segment. It's a comfortable cruiser and apparently a decent police car, but it's nothing special. Plus, the old models are starting to look tired after so many years. The car looks like any other boring American economy car, but packs a 259-horspower turbo-four under the hood. Sleepers are the “quiet ones” you have to look out for. It’s seriously quick, too, but it doesn’t look the part. It looks fast — it certainly doesn’t look like an off-roader — but it doesn’t look 707-hp fast. This is a list of sleeper cars from the last 25 years, but honestly, the Chevrolet SS might even deserve to be included on a list of the best sleepers of all time. Horsepower: 2000-60 mph: 5.6 secondsExpect to Pay: $6,400-$15,000. What makes the current Taurus SHO even more of a sleeper is that the automotive press largely wrote it off after its introduction. While most Rams of the 2000s were powered by a 5.7-liter Hemi V8, the SRT-10 has the same 8.3-liter V10 from a Viper. Horsepower: 2630-60 mph: 5.2 secondsExpect to Pay: $12,000-$18,000. With 605 horsepower from a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 hiding under an extremely understated sedan bodystyle, no one will give you a second look as you fly by in the left lane. Horsepower: 3000-60 mph: 4.8 secondsExpect to Pay: $9,000-$15,000. After all, it's still a midsize sedan, and midsize sedans are built to be practical cars for sensible people. More importantly, Porsche also did some work on the RS 2’s engine. The Subaru WRX is an awesome performance car, but it's also the exact opposite of a sleeper. These are the cars that look staid, placid even, but tend to zoom like rockets when the … Not this one. It's the kind of car that you need to look anonymous because if it looked as awesome as it actually is, you'd be getting speeding tickets left and right. Horsepower: 2150-60 mph: 6.7 secondsExpect to Pay: $19,000-$22,000. The first generation SRT-8 could hit 60 MPH in under five seconds, but the second generation received 50 more horsepower, making it the fastest Jeep ever produced. A sleeper car is fast without making scene about it. Beginning with the 1996 850, Volvo built a series of hot rod station wagons (and a few sedans), bestowing them with the R badge. We’re eager to see if VW can maintain that balance of performance and practicality with a new R based on the new eight-generation Golf. What a lot of motorists haven’t realized yet is that Jeep stuffs the exact same supercharged 6.2-liter V8 between the Grand Cherokee’s fenders. It's a rear-wheel drive muscle sedan that packs a 415 horsepower V8 sourced from the Corvette, a six speed manual transmission, and a magnetic suspension.