LIGHTS OUT
Sleeper, noun:
A vehicle that is typically not built for performance and has no discernible performance features, despite housing a power train that is ready to party; built with the intention of surprising unsuspecting victims who believe that the vehicle is less than it truly is: “Damn that thing is a sleeper, it hauls arse for a grandad-mobile!”
nce reserved as a badge of honour for only the most unassuming examples of street-patrolling feelings-hurters, the term ‘sleeper’ can now be heard thrown around pretty loosely. It’s morphed into an umbrella term used to describe anything that makes mild amounts of power without shouting it to the world, so much so that true sleepers have become near-on extinct in the wild — they’re that good at hiding what they’re about that you never even had the chance to know that they were there in the first place. So, as clichéd as it would be to use the term heavily in an article, there really is no more fitting way to describe what Auckland’s Richard
