Worst car I have ever driven....

[Paul v8]

Worst 4 cars I driven tough call between them saxo ,last 2 shapes of fiesta and old micra all horrible

[Derp]

I have the displeasure of driving these every day at work. Whenever i can, i leave it and take the transit.

It's horrible. The seats are like sitting on a roman road (to the extent they give me backache), the diesel engine has some poke but the turbo gets tired after one spin and there's no real go in it. It looks horrible, the shape is horrible, i hate the shape of the windows, the angle of the dashboard, the arm rest is too high, the size of the steering wheel, and the fact that despit being a 2007 zetec model, it still doesnt have an aux slot and wont play mp3 cd's. 1992 anyone?

Absolute pile of bks.

[anonymous-user]

i had a corsa d 1.2 2007 design and not as bad as you make out. car isn't a bad handling quite mainly due to large tyres and stiff chassis.

it is a city car and pretty spacious. There are faults but it isn't as bad as a prospect for cheap motoring.

[Paul v8]

The focus ok to rag around if hired or leant .would never pay money for one though

[ShayneJ]

carreauchompeur said:

Due to the unique way the Police is funded these hateful little Corsas of which you speak are gradually replacing the decent Foci in our CID fleet.

Truly hateful car designed for idiots. Grumbly, st diesel engine and patented MongProof switchgear. Arse.

Perfect for woodentops then







sorry

[carreauchompeur]

I think they're installing GPS trackers/data recorders in the fleet soon so having no chance of hoonage might actually be a boon

[greggy50]

Corsa B 1.0 with 130,000 miles on the clock and lack of service history you cannot possibly believe how truly awful it was...

[JREwing]

Maybe the basic models have the annoying 'hold-the-button' windows and poor seats, but better models certainly don't.
And the Corsa C feels far livelier (although admittedly not quick) with the same engine. I find the Corsa C to be far preferable to the Corsa D, although I do need to sort out some rattly interior trim in mine, which isn't unexpected.

[Hoygo]

If you think a car is bad to drive you should try a Fiat Argenta,first calling that car unreliable is a compliment,driving wise is a streaming pile of st,my dad owned one in the past for a year or so and for that time it raped his wallet worse than anything imaginable,he preferred driving a John Deere tractor when it worked.

[rumple]

Owned, Mk3 Astra, just fking awful.
Driven, Mk4 Golf, just fking awful.
I found both these cars very similar, dull heavy bag's of st, words cant described how much contempt i have for these.

[ant leigh]

Worse car as a hire car, Ford Taurus when I was in the USA
Total and utter

My favourite comment on the car was on Saturday night live after it had been discontinued

'This week the last Taurus rolled off Ford assembly lines, 30 somethings everywhere will now need to find a new vehicle that tells the world, "I've given up on my dreams."'


Worst car I owned, my first car, a Talbot Horizon. All I could afford, ran it into the ground ,it once managed 95leptons downhill on the motorway

Strangely now most of the memories of it are either good or funny. Must mean I'm getting old

[ant leigh]

Ozzie Osmond said:

Corsa 1.2 is definitely one of the worst cars I have ever driven - shockingly bad for a modern car - and I have no grudge against Vauxhall. One can only wonder as to what the "target market" may be.

Bought a 1.2 Corsa as a first car for my eldest son.
Interestingly months later he left home and we didn't speak for over a year
Then he changed his car. We are talking again now.

Not saying its connected mind

[Futuramic]

missdiane said:

Not changed since the 1993's then, even sitting in a Fiesta from a Corsa was a great improvement

I'm inclined to agree. My first car was an M reg Corsa 1.2; whilst my mum had an S reg Fiesta 1.25 at the same time. I never really got to drive the Fiesta as I was never insured on it but I punted it about occasionally for various reasons. Every single thing about it was better, the steering, seats, gearchange, ergonomics, the whole lot. And the engine, despite being only 50cc bigger was a revelation, revvy - powerful even for its size.

Funnily enough the only area the Corsa prevailed in was durability. At the time it was older than the Fiesta and the bodywork was OK. Not perfect but no structural rot. The Fiesta, despite being garaged and cared for, began to resemble the hull of the Titanic after a few years. Ironically the Corsa is still going locally, or it was until a year or so ago, whereas I imagine the Fiesta breathed its last sometime in the previous decade.

Years later I drove a Fiesta of the same era for work, although this had the venerable 1.3 pushrod engine. Even that was an improvement.

Rolling on: in the same job we had a contract with a local car hire firm who had a sense of humour. They would supply us with an automatic Astra twin-top when asked for a saloon, that kind of thing. Once they provided a 10 reg Corsa that I drove. Probably the 1.2. Firstly I was in awe of its gargantuan bulk. Then I was patronised by its silly cartoon space-ship interior; many flashing lights and spurious buttons. After that I was underwhelmed by the asthmatic engine and poor gearchange. Nothing about it was redeeming, except for the handling. I only found this out after being required to perform a journey of some five miles in a single day. Not normally a problem but in this conservation of momentum was the key. The zero to thirty sprint took longer than reading Tolstoy, anything beyond that and I'd still be there. As a result everything was taken flat out. Fair enough it went round corners, but with an ethereal detachment.

[Silverbullet767]

I know of someone who has just bought this grade A piece of st.



Yours for £14,650

But he did get a years three insuranse innit?

wker.

[Justin S]

Sorry but the Kia mpv thing I was given as a rental from my insurance company 'must' be worse than the vile Corsa. I actually took it back the next day and said if they had nothing to hire, I would rather walk. Bloke looked at me and understood how hateful it was. Luckily he had an unwashed and dirty Mondeo come in, I snatched the keys from his hand, quicker than he could hide them.
http://www.whatcar.com/car-reviews/kia/carens-mpv/...
Hateful, hateful , vile piece of junk

[MarkRSi]

Ved said:

You clearly haven't been handed the keys to a 1.5 automatic Impreza hatchback then.

Had one as a hire car when my STI was getting it's 30k and it was without doubt the most hateful, underpowered pile of automatic cack my arse has ever had the displeasure to come into contact with. I would rather walk barefoot through a field of nettles and wasps than ever go near one again.

I once had a test drive of a 2.0l Impreza, non-turbo. It felt slow.

Bearing in mind my car at the time was a 45bhp Peugeot 205, and previous was a Morris 1000. With 48bhp.




Although... for the worst car I've ever driven is the mk1 Renault Megane my instructor had.

Zero feel through any of the controls - steering, clutch, accelerator, brake. All far too light and as lifeless as a corpse. Que lots of stalling, revving, random steering inputs, jerky throttle/brake/nose to windscreen interfacing as I try to guesstimate what the fk the car is about to do.

It had a bit more power than the Morris (around 100bhp from it's 1400cc) but for some reasons didn't like cruising in any gear higher than 3rd at 30mph on the level - 4th would cause the engine to start groaning away, every car I've driven since is happy to sit in 4th/5th at 30. It also had zero torque between 1000-2000rpm - hence lots of revving = clutch smell = annoyed instructor etc.

Then after the lesson I'd get into the Morris and drive my mum/dad with the smoothness of a chauffeur.

I don't want to blame the car, but fk it I reckon I failed my driving test twice simply because I was trying to drive the fking thing rather than focus on my roadcraft!!

KILL IT WITH FIRE!



Strange, because one of the best cars I've even driven is also a Megane - it might have 265bhp and a LSD at the front though.

Edited by MarkRSi on Monday 10th September 23:14

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Worst thing I've ever driven would have to one of these:

[nagsheadwarrior]

Must admit the latest shape Corsa is pretty near the top of my list too, stty in petrol guise and agreed the seats are awful,took in an 08 diesel one and that was even worse,fked with under 40k on the clock and no power at all or indeed movement until the turbo kicked in!

Fiat Seicento comes pretty high up too, not a car but a medieval instrument of torture and impossible to use the pedals if you are a bloke!

I've driven some proper horrid cars but the most hated for me was a Smart Roadster, very disappointing, stty engine,awful horrible semi auto gearbox and impossible to enter and exit,wanted to like it but id rather walk!

[m555]

Hired a nissan tiida back in 2007, in South Africa, before they reached Europe.
handled just like a boat...in choppy waters

[ant leigh]

I have just remembered the last USA trip.
Booked a 'coupe' so I was expecting something at least reasonable (had a 328i XDrive previous time).

Get the keys, walk through the car lot, and its a Kia Sorento
Go back, ask 'does that really look like a coupe to you' to which the response is 'thats all we got, take it or leave it'

And I took it
Boy was it total and utter cp
Met up with a colleague in Detroit, his 'what the fk is that' when he realised he was getting a 500mile drive in it was priceless