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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    I’ve driven some real shit in my time but id have to say the one that sticks in my mind would be a Fiat Chicochenca (or what ever the F#ck it’s called) which i got as a courtesy car to replace a BMW! And the pedals were so close together that every time i braked i hit the throttle and when i pushed the clutch in i hit the break. Yet another pile of shit brought to you by Fiat.

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    rry gotta add another to this...........the works van.........sherpa couldnt pull the dick off a chocolate mouse, all the shit cars ive driven pale to insignificance compared to that

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    old VW passat was the worst i drove - my dads car, brown, seat runners were broken as were the electric windows so the car was always steamed up, throttle pedal got stuck to the floor one day, seat fly back as far as it could go (im a short ass) - had to dip the clutch and reach down and pull it up with my hand....brilliant....that or the alegro 1500gt he had....or the sherpa....in fact if you get a copy of the worlds worst cars my old man had everyone in there i think

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    ive got some a 320d bmw tourer on a 03 which i brought for 8500 pounds it drove really nice but 9 days later drop a vavle and sent it back and they repaired it with a new vavle 8 days later does the same but this time some how a bolt appeared in with the vavle so backed it again but this time asked for my money back as it was a pile of s-it another bad car was a rover 220 coupe only drove that a week a park up and left

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    [quote=Todd;1391639]old VW passat was the worst i drove - my dads car, brown, seat runners were broken as were the stuck to the floor one day, seat fly back as far as it could go (im a short ass) - had to dip the clutch and reach down and pull it up with my hand....brilliant.

    i once drove a diesel vw passat and i reckon a snail could pull away faster than that pile of crap
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    I once drove a mk2 escort
    Terrable.

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    my mum had a b reg fiat panda that was the worst i drove ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, UNTIL SHE BOUGHT A FEKIN NEW ONE

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    In my many years as a mechanic i have driven loads of crap. Really I would have to say that the old montego estates are probably the worst cars that have thankfully died a death. That 2.0ltr injection thing was super quick, too, but bloody aweful ride. my mate spun one on a dual carriage way and all he did was change from 3rd to 4th gear .. the fucking thing swopped ends doing about 60mph on a very slight bend
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    The Anglia 1200 Super I used to have was crap to drive. It looked ace but just didn't cut it for a young and happening guy like me ... I got rid of it and bought a C plate XR3i

    ... ahhh, much nicer
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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    Got to be my old 2.2 starlet had plenty of fun on strip and on road but deep down it drove like a pig
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    Has to be my first car the Maestro a pile of percy:
    Constantly either had ignition failure and broke engine tie rods.

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    bloody hell that was a bit scary reading the thread from the begining I was under 40 then

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    I reiterate my last statement, we just got an 03 plate 'courtesy' van from the mechanics at work whilst ours is off getting repaired (again) and its another bloody sherpa, o dear lord this thing is shit, no guts at all, the steering is frighteningly vauge or should that be terrifyingly vauge, the clutch is shite, it handles like a barge without the turning response of a barge, the gearbox is a random selection one and im still waiting for the turbo to kick in since about 12pm today, why didnt they buy a transit. sorry about the rant i just bloody hate these sherpa's

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    A few of the worst (for various reasons) i've had the displeasure of drivin are:

    -Fiat uno.... oh dear. it had rust holes everywhere and going through a flood once the footwells filled up with water

    -2x renault scenics we were sellin in work, a 2000 and a 2002, i honestly feared they'd fall over at any corner

    -A fiat marea that cost 100 euro and had 248,580 miles when i bought it. Put up over 4,000 miles in the month that i had it.. and fair play to it, but it was awful, nothing apart from the engine, lights and gearbox worked... it stopped using the gears and handbrake mostly to back up the shite brakes... if you started it more than 3 times in an hour it would run outta battery, the driver's side wing was held on with rivets put in with one of those nail gun things, it had a passenger seat that said toyota on it, most of the exhaust was flexi tubing stuff and it eventually blew up in major style at 85mph as i tried to keep up with my old man in his bmw 530.

    -a maestro van... never again

    -lada jeep

    -a 5 year old alfa romeo 156 estate with 270k miles that we got as a trade in... sounded like a tracto, drove WORSE than a tractor and should have been squashed by a tractor

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    Some of worst cars are reliant three wheeler I drove many years ago. I used to take hotel guests cars round to the car park at chester grosvenor when I worked there many yaers ago. To think that someone actually stayed at that hotel, ultra expensive, and arrived in a reliant regal! Truly awful car.
    2CV was pretty crap as well. Umbrella handle for a gearstick. silly idea.
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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    Haven't seen this thread in years, I still stand by my selections back in the first page.
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    Since I have been here in Oz I have found a whole new continent full of mediocre motoring Sh1te I could add to the list.

    There are a few notable execeptions, but on the whole they have some bloody awful cars down here
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    I cant believe we've had 4 pages of thread, with only 1 SHORT mention of the beast that is the 1.1 Metro...

    In our family we've had two! I had an earlier Carbed one, whereas my kid brother was ripped off on a mate that charged him £400 for an injection version.

    The carbed one did have a BIT of go...til about 30, and at least it would pull up hill in 2nd (sometimes), but i ditched it when the door locks would consistently lock me out, and the brakes lost all their fluid as i was fast approaching a HARD corner.

    My bros on the other hand, couldnt pull the skin off a rice pudding! Wouldnt pull up even mild hills in 2nd (and thats with one 10 stone person inside), the steering was AWFUL, with no feeling to it at all, practically no brakes, and electrical faults to high heaven...

    Add to that a fuel gauge that was empty when reading "quarter tank", and a "respray" which you got ALL over you when it rained... It was a happy day when i drove that to the scrapyard...

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    worst car for me was the Toyota T100 no comfort what so ever technically it isnt a car tho its a Pickup Truck


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    worst car for me was the Toyota T100 no comfort what so ever technically it isnt a car tho its a Pickup Truck


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    rover 45

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    Rover 416 si.

    It had 17" alloys with the lowest profile tyres you've ever seen. The ride comfort was fooking awful, it was very unstable above 60, especially in the wet, and obviously the head gasket kept going

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    Lada samara,or i think thats what it`s called

    we service one in our garage that belongs to an older bloke who bought it new and its still feckin mint!!only got 59K on it but by god,what a POS


    another has to be a shittychenqo (aint even goin to bother tryin to spell it) that an ex had.
    it was quite new at the time too but it was another god awful car!

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    i'd have to say mk1 capri. i brought it cus though it looked cool, spent a year or so welding up and rebuilding the thing, only to find out once i drove it, it was a pile of crap was a 1.6 crossflow gtxlr totally standard apart form a kent camshaft. luckly it couldn't go fast enough to get me in real trouble.
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    mk6 escort........untill i unplugged the MAF, since then its been fine


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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    B reg Maestro 1.3 HLE. The "E" in HLE stood for economy. That meant the boffs at British leyland rather than fit a 5 speed box fitted an overdriven 4th gear to a 4 speeder and lengthened the ratios on gears 1-3. Fuck it was slow. Got it given to me after my grandad passed away, it was 7 years old, only had about 17k on the clock. 18 months later it had 98K on the clock . All done at snails pace. Never let me down (once i junked the SU carb with shitty stepper motors on), cost naff all to run and earned me a fortune as i was self employed and got 35p a mile at the time. So in a way it was good. But i dreaded every one of those miles. Brown plastic dash, beige seats and 80mph flat out. It was BL's version of chinese water torture on 4 wheels.

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    Where I work we used to have a fleet of astra diesels as pool cars, which basically meant that every one and their dog caned the living shit out of them.
    They would have been M reg I reckon, 1.7 diesel non-turbo so 0-60 took about a minute. You had to press the accelerator halfway to the floor before it did anything! I don't know why they bothered TBH, the only way to get it to go anywhere was foot to the floor, they should have just fitted and on/off switch!
    Handling was none existent, they were base models so the interior options stretched to a driver's seat and not much further, and they were constantly blowing up due to the fantastic Vauxhall build quality and the beating they took. One I had once lost all of its oil on the M6 near Birmingham, which seized the engine, locking the front wheels at 80MPH nearly causing a monumental accident
    I had a MK1 vectra Diesel as a hire car once, that was almost as bad as the Astra but had more kit as it was an LS i think
    The next worst car was a new-ish Corsa, 3 cylinder petrol, horrid interior and wouldn't go up hills in anything higher than 1st gear.
    There is a bit of a Vauxhall theme there isn't there?
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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    Worst in my limited experience was a 1.0 Litre 12 valve corsa.

    3 cyclinders and about 50bhp of pure muscle!



    Worst I have been in was either a Rover 114 (fuck me that was a bad car) or a shitty old Clio 1.4 Automatic that did 5000rpm at 70. I think the gearbox was totalled.

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    I'm old enough to have driven a few and the Datsun 120Y stands out as being the worst,really,really bad.

    For some reason I can no longer remember we had to hire a car to follow the Scottish Rally way back in the Seventies,the car we were supposed to get went on fire and the only other car available was the Datsun, so either that or not see the rally.

    It would not look at a corner at any speed, every bend was an adventure,at one point we had to turn back because it could not go up a hill.

    Very very bad.
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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    Funnily enough, the worst car I've ever driven, was today.

    A Smart Car - wrong on every level. Handled like a tractor, and was about as quick. Made my race car feel positively refined.

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    Have to agree...The Metro....

    Cannot recall what year it was launched but West Mids Police had a fleet of the for the Motor Show at the NEC as the launch.....

    Four hairy arsed bobbies in the car (3 door) put it over its MGW ....



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    Fiat Ritmo
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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    Its a choice for me between a honda jazz or a renault megane.

    Got the Jazz when my bmw was being repaired after a crash. Slow and so heavy on fuel I coundn't believe it!!! It was an ugly peice of shit too!!

    The megane was it think in hindsight worse. Company Rental car, Drove from Cornwall to London with my mate, we both hated so much, when we had to drive up the next week we insisted the hire company swapped it, they did and we got an Ford C max!!!!!
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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    Dads old Mazda. I haven't had much experience driving but that car was awful.

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    Toyota Carina II. Wasnt particularly bad it was just as boring as hell

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    has to be a toyota yaris it was a curtesey car suspension was made out of sponge n didnt have the power to pull the skin off a rice pudding had a horrid centre spedo console thing that kept makin me feel sea sick lol the best bit was i crashed it into my mates curtesey car wouldent drive one again if u paid me

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    Peugeot 205 ...... Dear god!
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    an e30 320i with a 325i engine, pedals where too far over to the right & was just a shit box ion my oppinion

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    Worst car I have drive has to be a Renault Kangoo. I was given it as a courtesy car and my god it was a pile of S**t. lol

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    Re: Worst car you've driven ?

    We had a Fiat Panda as a courtesy car this week and even though the Fiat 500 is based on it they are worlds apart. The Panda felt like it was made of cardboard, it was noisy, the brakes were shite and it had the worst understeer I have ever seen (comedy bad!).

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