The worst car you've ever driven...

[matrignano]

Alfa 147 or Fiat 500L.
Jeep renegade a recent close 1st

[miroku1]

Jaguar e pace Ford capri , both hideous

[lowdrag]

Renault 17, a loan car. Also another loan car, Renault 5 diesel. Maximum of 50 mph uphill.

[helix402]

I have a couple of nominees:

Vauxhall Carlton 2.0l, all the power of a wet lettuce

Brand new Toyota Corolla estate hybrid. Allegedly 140hp. Similar performance and handling to an 1983 1.3 auto Corolla I used to drive.

[cirian75]

Old man's Skoda Kamiq 1.5t DCT

Its a good car, a very good car, very comfy, brilliant cruiser, quite fast too.

Drove it for the 1st time last Saturday.

It is completely and totally soulless, boring, devoid of any character at all and also suffers from very bad turbo lag.

Edited by cirian75 on Friday 29th December 09:04

[Debrooker]

When I was 17 and learning to drive, I would jump at any opportunity to have ago in any car.

My elderly neighbour at the time let me take out his Morris Marina - scared the beejeebers our of me, was the shortest drive I ever took in someone else's car.

Horrid thing

[DickyC]

I may have mentioned it already, but delivering a poorly constructed Robin Hood allowed me to conclude it was the worst car I had ever driven.

How it had passed any roadworthiness tests remains a mystery to me. The delivery was about five miles between two garages, and included a stretch of NSL. But to the irritation of my fellow road users, I went as slowly as I could. I think I managed a shade over 30 in one place.

[ChevronB19]

My sister’s old Lada Samara in the mid 80’s - utterly, utterly terrible.

West Cumbria had a reputation for Eastern European cars as they were cheap and the area was very very left wing.

[biggbn]

helix402 said:

I have a couple of nominees:

Vauxhall Carlton 2.0l, all the power of a wet lettuce

Brand new Toyota Corolla estate hybrid. Allegedly 140hp. Similar performance and handling to an 1983 1.3 auto Corolla I used to drive.

I remember the Carltons punching well above their weight, even the 1800 went well. Such comfy big cars.

[Patio]

Qashqai
Awful thing, gearbox like a witches cauldron, random auto braking, least grunt of any car I've had before

I started calling it the qashwhy as I couldn't understand why there are so many about and why anyone would want one

Driven a new style one and that was miles better

[greenarrow]

Threads like this are always hilarious because some of the cars nominated really aren't that bad at all, people used to modern era cars are plainly spoilt!!

For me it is a cross between the Fiat mirafiori I briefly owned in 1990 and a Lancia Delta garage loan car I had about 23 years ago which was borderline dangerous. Both cars a reminder that once upon a time cars really were bad!!

[fido]

helix402 said:

Brand new Toyota Corolla estate hybrid. Allegedly 140hp.

Get a 2.0 with 194bhp then!

[Baldchap]

Chrysler Paedo Cruiser cabriolet.

I've never driven a car with literally zero redeeming features until I drove this.

Engine: 2.4 IL4 @ 160BHP should be pretty quick but so heavy it felt sluggish...

Handling: ...Which is probably good given the boat-like roll and unimaginably bad scuttle shake.

To get in the back you got decapitated by the seatbelt that blocks the way and also I remember some stupid rollover bar being in the way.

I bought this for a banger rally and actually planned on bringing it back as it was comfortably over budget. By the time we got to the scrap yard at the end it was thoroughly disposed of!

Just atrocious in every regard. Unacceptable.

ETA: Turning circle so large you have to put a shunt in on most European switchbacks.

[Rob 131 Sport]

greenarrow said:

Threads like this are always hilarious because some of the cars nominated really aren't that bad at all, people used to modern era cars are plainly spoilt!!

For me it is a cross between the Fiat mirafiori I briefly owned in 1990 and a Lancia Delta garage loan car I had about 23 years ago which was borderline dangerous. Both cars a reminder that once upon a time cars really were bad!!

You must of had a bad example of a Mirafiori, because minor rust issues aside they were a great car and the best in their class at the time.

The Sport version was a real piece and the Super was so luxurious and well appointed. They both had the legendary Twin Cam Engine.

[Stu0221]

Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV thing.

Automotive equivalent of purgatory.

[biggbn]

Rob 131 Sport said:

greenarrow said:

Threads like this are always hilarious because some of the cars nominated really aren't that bad at all, people used to modern era cars are plainly spoilt!!

For me it is a cross between the Fiat mirafiori I briefly owned in 1990 and a Lancia Delta garage loan car I had about 23 years ago which was borderline dangerous. Both cars a reminder that once upon a time cars really were bad!!

You must of had a bad example of a Mirafiori, because minor rust issues aside they were a great car and the best in their class at the time.

The Sport version was a real piece and the Super was so luxurious and well appointed. They both had the legendary Twin Cam Engine.

Had a 132 with the twin can two litre. Best manual box I've ever had. Incredible action.

[tim0409]

cirian75 said:

Old man's Skoda Kamiq 1.5t DCT

Its a good car, a very good car, very comfy, brilliant cruiser, quite fast too.

Drove it for the 1st time last Saturday.

It is completely and totally soulless, boring, devoid of any character at all and also suffers from very bad turbo lag.

Edited by cirian75 on Friday 29th December 09:04

I’m pretty sure there is a well documented issue with the 1.5 combined with the auto; I have the Scala with the 1.0 manual, which is the same platform and it’s a surprisingly good car.

[garypotter]

BMW i3 closely followed by the E Golf, both crap cars

[lowdrag]

greenarrow said:

Threads like this are always hilarious because some of the cars nominated really aren't that bad at all, people used to modern era cars are plainly spoilt!!

For me it is a cross between the Fiat mirafiori I briefly owned in 1990 and a Lancia Delta garage loan car I had about 23 years ago which was borderline dangerous. Both cars a reminder that once upon a time cars really were bad!!

Well, in contrast my rental car was not a Golf as requested but a new Qashqai. I was given a brief explanation and spent three days trying to find out how to programme it, or actually to deprogramme it. It is rather large but understanding all the modes was, for me, a complete disaster. Never again.

[Magnum 475]

biggbn said:

helix402 said:

I have a couple of nominees:

Vauxhall Carlton 2.0l, all the power of a wet lettuce

Brand new Toyota Corolla estate hybrid. Allegedly 140hp. Similar performance and handling to an 1983 1.3 auto Corolla I used to drive.

I remember the Carltons punching well above their weight, even the 1800 went well. Such comfy big cars.

I had the misfortune to own a 1.8 for a while.

The only Vauxhall I’ve ever owned, and a true turd of a car.

Gutless at best. It would frequently lose all power for no good reason; I overhauled the carb, replaced the entire ignition system, but it still used to just randomly die, including one memorable occasion as I changed into 2nd trying to accelerate onto a busy roundabout. It also used oil to the point where I didn’t bother changing it - topping up a litre every few hundred miles meant it was doomed anyway. I got rid when it was 7 years old and had <80k miles on it - to a scrap yard. Then spent a while cleaning oil stains off the drive.