It's already November 1st, and the votes I received on whether Wasafa's car will be a post 1995 or pre 1995 has been settled. Of the votes I got, the pre 1995 won over.

Because I got Wasafa's car being the standard model with the 50 horsepower engine, I modified a part to a story involving the car's performance, which made it more interesting. The setting is around the Salem, India area.

http://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=591766 Page 100.

The following excerpt is from the story, Bad Karma is Not Kind:

As the boys were riding with Wasafa at 70 kph (45 mph), down a stretch of straight, open highway that ran side by side with railroad tracks, a long, fast moving, "Indian Railways" passenger train came along in the same direction the boys were traveling.
Less than a minute before the 130 kph (80 mph) passenger train would pass them, Geulo mentioned, "I wonder how fast that train coming up from behind us is going".
"We soon find out", Wasafa said as he downshifted and floored it, giving the car's 50 horse power, four cylinder engine everything it's got, attempting to match the train's speed by the time it got even with them.
The train was still some distance back down the tracks when Wasafa began accelerating the car, anticipating that the train would already be passing them while the car was still trying to get up speed. It's a 50 horsepower car that takes over 25 seconds to go from 0 to 99 kph (60 mph), and would take even more time to go from their original speed to how ever fast the train was going.
And Wasafa anticipated right. As the car was still laboring it's way to achieving top speed, the WAP-5 locomotive cruised on by, with a generator / brake car buzzing along behind, and the first of the passenger coaches passing by with their wheels making that rapid >clickity clackety< sound. But as the rest of the train passed on by, Wasafa's car eventually began to approach the speed the train was traveling.
By the time Wasafa shifted the car back up into 4th gear, the train was still outrunning them, but by now, not outrunning them by much.

"We're just about even with it", Haja said moments later, after Wasafa had finally gotten the car going fast enough to where the train was now only barely passing them.
A moment before the tail end generator / brake car would have caught up even with them, Wasafa finally got that Hindustan Contessa of his running even pace with the 130 kph passenger train...almost as fast as Wasafa's car can go, especially with the weight of five others riding with him.
"We're there", Cheesah said as Wasafa'a car was keeping pace with the last passenger coach just ahead of the tail end generator / brake car.
As the boys could see other animals sitting in their seats and a raccoon walking the isle to his seat aboard the passenger coach, they could hear the constant buzzing of the tail end generator / brake car just behind as they heard the rapid >clickety clackety< sound of the steel wheels on steel rails. The boys noticed few of the passengers aboard the train would watch from their windows at Wasafa's car speeding along beside.
"One hundred thirty kilometers each hour", Wasafa said as he glanced at the speedometer (about 80 mph).
After running pace with the train for about a minute, Wasafa finally said, "Me slow down now, so we no crash", as he backed off of the accelerator allowing the train to leave them behind.
"There they go", Cheesah said as the tail end generator / brake car buzzed on past them with it's blinking, red, taillight flashing in the night.
As the boys continued down the highway at 70 kph (45 mph), they watched the train's taillight eventually disappear down the tracks into the darkness down the long railroad straight away, as the train left them behind going nearly twice their speed.

Here is an earlier excerpt from that same story:

Once Zander got to the main street, he turned right and punched a bit, chirping the tires as he took off down the street, but kept it within the speed limit. Wasafa had to give his four cylinder Hindustan just about all it had to catch up to Zander's ten cylinder Dodge Viper.
“Remember, Wasafa. Give him some distance”, Cheesah reminded him.
There was one traffic light both Zander and Wasafa caught red before the main street led out of town and became an open highway. At the light, Cheesah croutched down behind the dash board so there was not the risk of Zander spotting him. Habbar was on the back seat with Janeeza, and it was hard to see into Wasafa's car that far back with the dark tinted windows.
“Sim. I see you no want rato to see you”, said Wasafa.
“You got it”, Cheesah replied.
When the light turned green, Zander chirped the tires on a quick take off, with Wasafa trying to keep up the best he could with the 50 horsepower his car has.
Now that the street began to become highway, Zander Rat thought he'd open it up a bit. Suddenly, Zander Rat floored it, shifting it through the gears. VAROOOMP – VAROOOOOOOOOOOOM – VAROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM – VAROOOOOOO.....”, The Viper rapidly sped away with tires screaming, smoking and laying black stripes onto the pavement.
“FILHO DA PUTA! (Son of a bitch) LOOK AT THAT CAR MOVE OUT!”, Cheesah Meerkat exclaimed as they rode through a cloud of tire smoke left behind by Zander's car.
Within only seconds, Zander Rat's 450 horsepower, Dodge Viper was far down the highway at extremely high speeds, while Wasafa Mongoose's 50 horsepower, Hindustan Contessa labored along it's way, still getting above normal highway speed.

“ME NEVER SEE CAR GO FAST LIKE THAT IN ME LIFE!”, Wasafa Mongoose exclaimed as he floored it, giving that Hindustan of his everything he can get out of it, trying to catch up. But it was to no avail. The more Wasafa Mongoose got his car gradually going faster and faster, the quicker Zander Rat's Viper left them far behind, as it approached 300 kph.
“That's a Viper, Wasafa. You'll never catch him with this”, Habbar told Wasafa as his car barely got to 140 kph (85 mph) and couldn't go any faster.
“Is so fast. Eu nao acredito isso” (I don't believe it), Wasafa said as he began slowing his car back down to normal highway speed.
“We can STILL find that creepy cretin”, Janeeza said as she held up the business card Zander had given to Wasafa.
As the Viper sped out of sight, the four of them decided to turn the car around and head back home.