Worst car ever made

[BDR529]

eldar said:

Is the one in front the one used on TG?

These "cars" have loads of character!

Edited by BDR529 on Wednesday 10th November 18:20

[Old Gregg]

hotmelt said:

MSTRBKR said:

It has to be the Lancia Musa 1.3 Diesel. No idea if the engine has a turbo but it definitely felt like it didn't. It was so completely useless on the hills around Tuscany. Utter st.

Looks awfull, drives bad.

Looks like a Fiat Idea sucking a lemon

NLB said:

And no, I am not an American-car-phobe – the contemporary (-ish, again) Cadillac Seville STS:

[pic]

is actually rather good, as big soft cruisers go.

Aren't these FWD?

[dwspirit]

Lada Samara has to be as bad as the FSO

[NLB]

Old Gregg said:

hotmelt said:

MSTRBKR said:

It has to be the Lancia Musa 1.3 Diesel. No idea if the engine has a turbo but it definitely felt like it didn't. It was so completely useless on the hills around Tuscany. Utter st.

Looks awfull, drives bad.

Looks like a Fiat Idea sucking a lemon

NLB said:

And no, I am not an American-car-phobe – the contemporary (-ish, again) Cadillac Seville STS:

[pic]

is actually rather good, as big soft cruisers go.

Aren't these FWD?

Not sure, I am afraid. I have driven quite a number of miles in quite a variety of American cars, over the last 20-something years, but my interaction with them is usually limited to giving the Hertz person a credit card, and driving away (I did put some oil in an Infiniti of some sort once...).

If they are, it just goes to show that there is much more to a car than which wheels are driven, because the execrable Lincoln Town Car is, I am fairly sure, RWD, and is horrid, and the Seville is really quite ok (even doing the long, twisty over-the-mountains back route from Santa Barbara to Palmdale, with my three colleagues snoring their heads off...).

[Eggman]

Squabbler said:

Eggman said:

ZAZ-966

It's actually quite charming and fun to drive. Also rear-mounted V4 aircooled engine. WHat's not to like?

Actually, I would love to have a go in one

Crudely made small cars are great fun. I recently had the opportunity to examine a Berkeley T60 similar to the one below. They're tremendous!

[DaveL485]

Trackpug said:

Custard Test said:

I owned one of these :



Biggest pile of st I ever owned. Spent more time off road than one. It seemed to have a continuous radiator, water pump/temperature gauge/ fk know what/ heat problem twice a week. £400 to get it through it's last MOT before I scrapped it 10 months later. Money Pit

Ha, I had one of those before it had major HGF. It always leaked coolant and oil. It broke down in spectacular fashion on the M25 in roadworks with no hard shoulder! It was scrapped shortly after but only lost £50 on it and I liked it for some reason

Ive has 2 19TD's in six years. Totally reliable, cheap to run, brilliant smokers. Sixty K between em and only one breakdown, which was the stop solenoid failing at 135K.

Worst car- without question- Prius. God damn that thing was horrific.

Edited by DaveL485 on Wednesday 10th November 21:06

[Squabbler]

Eggman said:

Squabbler said:

Eggman said:

ZAZ-966

It's actually quite charming and fun to drive. Also rear-mounted V4 aircooled engine. WHat's not to like?

Actually, I would love to have a go in one

You know what i mean. And it's basically an NSU TT in Soviet disguise. Which makes it even more appealing

[Eggman]

Squabbler said:

Eggman said:

Actually, I would love to have a go in one

You know what i mean. And it's basically an NSU TT in Soviet disguise. Which makes it even more appealing

...and even if it wasn't, I could pretend I was in a story by Zoshchenko. If you know what I mean

[kiteless]

I've driven some stboxes (Megane CC / Mk II Mondeo / Mk III Mondeo / original Beetle) that all possess elements of direness.

But, from what I've read over the years, the worst car ever must come from the company that - paradoxically - made this lovely beast:



Yup, Sidney Allard, purveyor of the mighty J2, sanctioned this - the Allard Clipper:



The Clipper is the worst car in the world, for being an ugly, underpowered stter from a company that also produced butch speedsters with Cadillac V8's.

[Negative Creep]

kiteless said:

I've driven some stboxes (Megane CC / Mk II Mondeo / Mk III Mondeo / original Beetle) that all possess elements of direness.

But, from what I've read over the years, the worst car ever must come from the company that - paradoxically - made this lovely beast:



Yup, Sidney Allard, purveyor of the mighty J2, sanctioned this - the Allard Clipper:



The Clipper is the worst car in the world, for being an ugly, underpowered stter from a company that also produced butch speedsters with Cadillac V8's.

Suddenly the Cygnet doesn't look as bad.........Seriously though, that must be a candidate as it had no redeeming features whatsoever

[paulshears]

Ben Hughes said:

paulshears said:

Rover 400 / 45

200 & 45 are no better ... but at least they had an excuse .. they were a Rover

The 400 & 45 were 5 door Civic's that Rover somehow managed to build badly

Really though? Or is that just the sheep-following Rover bashing that we get here every day?

Manager at work has had 2

Both had engine failure, one was HGF at 52k .... the other needed new engine at 55k, oilway in the engine not drilled right

Neither car got to 3 years old before needing replacement .... because the gearboxes went before then

I know 2 other people that have had to have major engine work on them before 3 year old

My manager now has a Chevy Lacetti ... its over 3 years old now, has 77k on it & only had a couple of simple to fix things go wrong

.....

No doubt there are some "good" Rovers out there but I wouldn't buy one & I would not recommend one to ANYONE

Paul

[Eggman]

...but is it worse than a Mini Comtesse?



These things were:

• made in the 1970s, so they're not a post-war austerity thing
• fitted with industrial castors (visible in the picture) to reduce their tendency to tip over!

[Steamer]

Eggman said:

...
These things were:

some kids A Level CDT project that got out of hand?!

[Lucas North]

NLB said:

If they are, it just goes to show that there is much more to a car than which wheels are driven, because the execrable Lincoln Town Car is, I am fairly sure, RWD, and is horrid

I'd hide if I were you, can't say stuff like that on this forum.

[lordlee]

Yugo Zastava



Chrysler Neon

[gog440]

[quote=Snoop Bagg]In my opinion and in no particular order!



NO NO NO NO NO

I will admit the looks are a bit "challenging" but it would seat 6 adults and get all their luggage in as well (unlike a zafira/scenic et al) and was a surprising amount of fun to chuck around. At the time they came out I needed a people carrier and this was by a very long way the best to drive and the most practical. Also with the 1.9jtd engine it was nippy off the line (a multipla is approx half a tonne lighter than a zafira) and did at least 40mpg everywhere

edited to add
and it was relable too, I did 55k miles in it, had to have a new terminal put on the battery lead (cos it broke) and a £20 crank sensor (this was the only time it actually refused to go, sensor said the engine isnt turning so it turned the fuel pump off.. at 80 mph whilst overtaking a truck on the m62. My good diesels slow down very quickly on the compression)

Edited by gog440 on Thursday 11th November 19:19

[maniac0796]

The Mk6 Escort 1.8 diesel.

At least in van guise, it is possibly the slowest, worse car i've ever driver.

[Deranged Granny]

gog440 said:

it was nippy off the line (a multipla is approx half a tonne lighter than a zafira)

You mean 78kg lighter?

[PJ74]

Dracoro said:

Ferrari F40

You are joking?!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... in black - F40

[Tyre Smoke]

Surely has to rank up there somewhere?

Thing is, I like the car - to look at. In a retro sort of way. Just a shame nothing electrical did what it was supposed to.