The Worst

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[Handsome Devil]

A bit Derek and Clive this one.

What's the worst car you've ever driven, and why?

[Susiebabe]

I've only driven two the last one being a Vauxhall Corsa automatic and now the 107.  The car I learnt to drive in was a manual Ford Escort, quite an old one and it was as unpredictable and I hated it!!!!Every time I had finished a lesson I used to make sure the driving instructor wasn't looking and I used to kick it violently, I hated and detested it.  Things got a whole lot better when I decided manual gears wernt for me and I refreshed in an automatic Clio, which good and obeyed me!!!!

So Ford Escort gets my vote.......vile thing!!!
 

[soffit]

An early Suzuki Swift as a hire car in Greece. It drove horribly and had no redeeming features whatsoever other than not breaking down.

[timcrasher]

I've had some crap motors over the years, but the ones that stand out were a couple from my college years.
I had a Citroen Dyane. I bought if from a scrap yard for £20 as I wanted the engine so I could tune it and put it in my pimped out 2cv. I ended up running it around for a while as it was still taxed and tested. The floormats were bonded to the floorpans to keep some rigidity in the floor, and the pedal box was cabletied to the bulkhead. It was quite exciting when applying the brakes
The other beast was a 1989 VW T35 van. I wanted a van for my trackday bikes and all the gear. I bought it from a mate who used it as a surf bus. It was a huge high roof, twin wheel rear axle thing. I remember driving home from work one day, in an enthusiastic manner, when the airfilter box lid, engine cover( which was between the driver and passenger seats) and the turbo pipe, all fell off at the same time filling the cab with black smoke so bad that I instantly lost all forward vision. This happened while driving down a single track road through the woods near my home at the time.
I thought I had died .
I took it off the road to do the repairs, but my work college offered to buy it. He bought it and took it for a MOT a few days later. It had 3 pages of failure sheets, and 2 pages of advisory notes Classic
Then there was the Skoda Estele with the works group N rally engine that broke it's front suspension beam on the way home from college, the Morris Minor van with a Marina engine( drift machine),various rusty minis, the Renault 21 Turbo with the large turbo convertion and chipped up ecu , and various other cars and bikes......

[soffit]

I've had some crap motors over the years, but the ones that stand out were a couple from my college years.
I had a Citroen Dyane. I bought if from a scrap yard for £20 as I wanted the engine so I could tune it and put it in my pimped out 2cv. I ended up running it around for a while as it was still taxed and tested. The floormats were bonded to the floorpans to keep some rigidity in the floor, and the pedal box was cabletied to the bulkhead. It was quite exciting when applying the brakes
The other beast was a 1989 VW T35 van. I wanted a van for my trackday bikes and all the gear. I bought it from a mate who used it as a surf bus. It was a huge high roof, twin wheel rear axle thing. I remember driving home from work one day, in an enthusiastic manner, when the airfilter box lid, engine cover( which was between the driver and passenger seats) and the turbo pipe, all fell off at the same time filling the cab with black smoke so bad that I instantly lost all forward vision. This happened while driving down a single track road through the woods near my home at the time.
I thought I had died .
I took it off the road to do the repairs, but my work college offered to buy it. He bought it and took it for a MOT a few days later. It had 3 pages of failure sheets, and 2 pages of advisory notes Classic
Then there was the Skoda Estele with the works group N rally engine that broke it's front suspension beam on the way home from college, the Morris Minor van with a Marina engine( drift machine),various rusty minis, the Renault 21 Turbo with the large turbo convertion and chipped up ecu , and various other cars and bikes......

You must be quite good at walking home by now.  Buying a Dyane for £20 is just asking for trouble. We bought a 2cv for £80 and it did 15k faultless miles on top of it's initial 80k only when I took it to bits did it stop working 

[timcrasher]

You must be quite good at walking home by now. 

I always gave a lift to my mate to college. He came in handy when I needed a hand to get the car off the road. He absolutely crapped himself when the suspension broke on the Skoda. I drove it home though. It just had quite a bit of negative camber on the front wheels I sold it for twice what I paid for it too.

I would love another 2cv. They are great cars and go better than many people think. All the seats come out for picnics, the roof rolls back, they sip petrol, and they look great. I might have to go and check Ebay to see what's about Or a corrogated 4cv van. That would make an amazing camper for weekends away

[Handsome Devil]

I think the scariest car I've ever driven was a mkII MR2.  It handled on the limit like it had a hinge in the middle.

But that pales into insignificance compared to the Suzuki Vitara - slow, thisty, noisy, uncomfortable, crap on road, worse off road, and as ghey as a night out with Liberace. Why, why, why did Suzuki ever concieve it?  Even more mystifying, why did any sucker buy it?

[Chazza]

Best and worst car in the same post for me. My first car a renault 5 gt turbo running high boost. when it was going well it was lovely, nice performance smooth, quiet enough good handling. electric windows.

When there problems it was very slow unreliable leaky windows would not go up or down. and was costing me a fortune in fuel and insurance.

[Handsome Devil]

Best bit about the French Chav Show each year is the trail of steaming, or occasionally ablaze, 5GTT's that litter the roadside within 5 miles of Rockingham.  I counted 6 last year.

[Scrogz]

Worst car ive driven is a 7 speed 1 litre yaris, sooooo slow!!!

[qed]

An Aygo

[soffit]

An Aygo

That should get Stig posting again...

[Spank My Car]

If I'd of posted on this thread last Friday I would have said the worse I'd driven would have been a Auto Merc Vito Van - but now I'm becoming a tad fond of it tbh Sits three, pulls well (when the auto box bloomin' actually engages!!), & Its soo handy having all the space in the back

Worse is Fiesta (the one with the sad front headlamps, think it was a R reg? Maybe P? )

Best - Lotus Exige! 

[qed]

That should get Stig posting again...

Where is she?