The worst car you've ever driven...
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t (without googling obviously)Nissan Almera Tino.
Big on the outside, not on the inside. Heavy. Gutless. Suspension that wallowed all over the place in corners but also transmitted every imperfection in the road surface directly to your coccyx. An insanely low steering wheel, so it felt like it was between your knees. Bewildering heating and stereo controls. It was a nasty green colour.
It made the normal Almera look good, and I always considered them to be awful cars.
Honorable mentions for an automatic 1.2 Corsa from c. 2001, and an automatic Hyundai Accent c. 2004 which I think (hope) had tracking issues, because it wandered around the road in a most exciting fashion.
Big on the outside, not on the inside. Heavy. Gutless. Suspension that wallowed all over the place in corners but also transmitted every imperfection in the road surface directly to your coccyx. An insanely low steering wheel, so it felt like it was between your knees. Bewildering heating and stereo controls. It was a nasty green colour.
It made the normal Almera look good, and I always considered them to be awful cars.
Honorable mentions for an automatic 1.2 Corsa from c. 2001, and an automatic Hyundai Accent c. 2004 which I think (hope) had tracking issues, because it wandered around the road in a most exciting fashion.
A then brand new Golf GTI mk IV back in 1999. Hopeless in every single way. We went there in my 120k mile 1.1 litre 205. The Peugeot slaughtered it. It was a potential car on the list for my mum but crossed it off within 50 metres.
Course I never drove the Polo GTI which no doubt would have been a different story.
Course I never drove the Polo GTI which no doubt would have been a different story.
1. Some awful early 70's Viva estate in girly sky blue with the gear lever that seemed to come out of the passenger side of the gearbox tunnel.
2. About a year ago some big Mercedes saloon as a courtesy car. It was more like driving a Tablet 'cos there was one sticking out of the dashboard. It looked ugly in dreary varicose vein blue, was filthy dirty & the ride was rock hard. So much ostentatious excessive switches it was bewildering & obviously designed to impress the egotistic.
3. Ditto 2 except it was neither a saloon or SUV but more like a lumpen HGV with as naff an interior as before. Gutless diesel that was actually quiet.
I felt as if I had joined those who Travel a lot & tow caravans.
2. About a year ago some big Mercedes saloon as a courtesy car. It was more like driving a Tablet 'cos there was one sticking out of the dashboard. It looked ugly in dreary varicose vein blue, was filthy dirty & the ride was rock hard. So much ostentatious excessive switches it was bewildering & obviously designed to impress the egotistic.
3. Ditto 2 except it was neither a saloon or SUV but more like a lumpen HGV with as naff an interior as before. Gutless diesel that was actually quiet.
I felt as if I had joined those who Travel a lot & tow caravans.
SidewaysSi said:
A then brand new Golf GTI mk IV back in 1999. Hopeless in every single way. We went there in my 120k mile 1.1 litre 205. The Peugeot slaughtered it. It was a potential car on the list for my mum but crossed it off within 50 metres.
Course I never drove the Polo GTI which no doubt would have been a different story.
There were 2 very distinct versions of the MkIV GTI - the 2.0 non-turbo with 115bhp and the 1.8 Turbo, with 150bhp.Course I never drove the Polo GTI which no doubt would have been a different story.
The latter was a perfectly good car. The former only had a GTI badge in the UK - it was a Highline elsewhere.
Trabi601 said:
SidewaysSi said:
A then brand new Golf GTI mk IV back in 1999. Hopeless in every single way. We went there in my 120k mile 1.1 litre 205. The Peugeot slaughtered it. It was a potential car on the list for my mum but crossed it off within 50 metres.
Course I never drove the Polo GTI which no doubt would have been a different story.
There were 2 very distinct versions of the MkIV GTI - the 2.0 non-turbo with 115bhp and the 1.8 Turbo, with 150bhp.Course I never drove the Polo GTI which no doubt would have been a different story.
The latter was a perfectly good car. The former only had a GTI badge in the UK - it was a Highline elsewhere.
The Spruce goose said:
BMW 120d
Cheap interior, crap auto box 40mpg no matter how you drove, and didn't feel premium or special=, didn't drive very well. Nice leather but expected more really.
The leather is quite possibly the worst part about a modern BMW. I'm still to be convinced 'Dakota' has ever been anywhere near an animal.Cheap interior, crap auto box 40mpg no matter how you drove, and didn't feel premium or special=, didn't drive very well. Nice leather but expected more really.
(Of course, you may have driven one with upgraded leather)
Also assume you mean the 'old' (original) 1-series, as the current car has the 8 speed ZF box, which is the best auto on the market.
BrownBottle said:
Land Rover Defender.
Absolutely terrible as a road car, I'm a bit reluctant to call it a car but I guess that's what it was sold as, as opposed to a road legal agricultural vehicle which is what I would call it.
You obviously have never been in or driven a proper agricultural vehicle. And if you think a Defender isn't any good on road, then it was either broken, you can't drive or you are being hysterically unrealistic. Absolutely terrible as a road car, I'm a bit reluctant to call it a car but I guess that's what it was sold as, as opposed to a road legal agricultural vehicle which is what I would call it.
2015 Mitsubishi Mirage courtesy car
Appalling that an industrial conglomerate can sign off something that is:
(1) so badly styled
(2) gutless
(3) has high nvh
(4) handles poorly
Sure it's a shopping trolley, but you have to question why someone would buy something so below par in every field. The only thing going for it is the good Mitsubishi dealers and customer service.
Appalling that an industrial conglomerate can sign off something that is:
(1) so badly styled
(2) gutless
(3) has high nvh
(4) handles poorly
Sure it's a shopping trolley, but you have to question why someone would buy something so below par in every field. The only thing going for it is the good Mitsubishi dealers and customer service.
Mansilla said:
It made the normal Almera look good, and I always considered them to be awful cars.
Oi! Her indoors has one, and for a shopping trolley, it's pretty good.
Runs chains for the cams, so no bother about cam belt changes
and she's had 120K miles and 11 years out of it, without
much trouble.
Mind you, she stays in lane 1 on the motorway and tries to keep up with the lorries ;->
My worst were
1. A Citroen AX.
Ok, it had been used as a greenhouse for a couple of summers, but
it had Airfix build quality and smelly seats.
2. Lada Riva.
90 mph in one of those, with the worm drive steering, was startling.
Like piloting a Russian tank.
3. Lotus Excel.
All the mechanical robustness and durability of a used yogurt carton.
Electrical gremlins in abundance, 17 mpg and intergalactically
expensive servicing.
In comparison, a Yugo 45 rented car I had a week in once was brilliant,
up over 5,000 feet on the wet cobbled roads of South Austria. It would
still pull 110 mph, chasing Mercedes downto Greece, with some assistance
from Mr Newton's invention of gravity.
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