Old cars that just depress you.

[twazzock]

Corsa B. Because in most cases they are either chavved to buggery or ready to be scrapped. They're probably disgusting to drive and it shows in the way they're treated. Not appealing in the slightest.

[texaxile]

I recall - with total distaste, the car belonging to the bloke who lived 3 doors down in our nice, suburban close where all the 3 bed Semis had net curtains in all the windows, well manicured lawns, perhaps a small water feature in the front garden and a streetwide competition of keeping up with the joneses. We're talking mid 80's.

This bloke purchased a Montego Vanden Plas in the Jewish gold colour, then proceeded to spray the wheels gold, put gold reflective film over the windows, add two "static strips" and several reflectors to the rear bumper, add also a 3ft high level brake light / indicator setup in the rear window which incorporated 6m of wiring direct to the cigarette lighter, and lastly, almost unbelieveably, a black sticker in italics on the rear panel saying "high society".

At the time my brother had a 3 year old Colt Lancer Turbo (one of which I own today - a bit of nostalgia I don't mind admitting to) - This bloke often looked upon him with disdain.......I think my brother just shook his head.

[Ninjaboy]

rohrl said:

The Austin Maestro.

A hateful slug of a car which reeks of C&A and giving up.

An MG Turbo would destroy most modern hot hatches, they aint bad cars but they did have there faults as did all the competitors at the time.

[DeepFriedLlama]

My friend had 1 of these as her 1st car,i hated looking at it, i hated every second being in it. Why would u design a car 2 look like a hippo?

[wiliferus]

Wigeon Incognito said:

These disgusting pieces of automotive dross:



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Your post of that beaut reminded me of these..



Good god alive, a moving identity crisis. And don't get me started on the type of fktard that drives them...

[DrTre]

wiliferus said:

I match your almost practical 4 door saloon Nova, and raise you the stupid, nonsensical, turd-tastic two door saloon!

Think you'll find that's actually a coupe (according to someone on here)

[Prof Beard]

Ninjaboy said:

rohrl said:

The Austin Maestro.

A hateful slug of a car which reeks of C&A and giving up.

An MG Turbo would destroy most modern hot hatches, they aint bad cars but they did have there faults as did all the competitors at the time.

I had an MG 2.0i (Maestro) - was a quick car for its time (and taught me a lot about torque steer)

[JohnBender]

DeepFriedLlama said:

I learnt to drive in one of these.........


















Explains a lot.

[rohrl]

Ninjaboy said:

An MG Turbo would destroy most modern hot hatches, they aint bad cars but they did have there faults as did all the competitors at the time.

I've heard that the Turbo was quick and my godfather had one with a talking dashboard which was quirky but the Maestro I spent most time in was a mate's 1.3 Clubman and that was unforgivably crap. It was noisy, slow and no fun at all to drive.

I think though that it's mainly the dumpy styling that I always disliked most about the Maestro. To me it harked back to the Allegro in that respect which says it all really.

[v8will]

wiliferus said:

Your post of that beaut reminded me of these..



Good god alive, a moving identity crisis. And don't get me started on the type of fktard that drives them...

Elaborate? (I don't have one BTW)

[otolith]

Ninjaboy said:

An MG Turbo would destroy most modern hot hatches, they aint bad cars but they did have there faults as did all the competitors at the time.

150bhp/1087kg - it was quick for its time, but things have moved on:

http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/...

The last generation of hot hatches (Civic Type-R, Focus ST, mk-5 Golf GTi) would hit 60 in about the same time and 100 a couple of seconds quicker. The new generation of 250+ bhp cars would be much quicker.

[bad company]

Shame so many of the horrors were British.

[Jobless]

Need I say more?

[Kays vRS]

Red Vectras. Although more to the point there don't appear to be any red ones left, they've all turned pink. Makes me sad. And I don't even like Vectras.

[Negative Creep]

JohnBender said:

DeepFriedLlama said:

I learnt to drive in one of these.........

Explains a lot.

Image aside, they're actually pretty good cars.

[davemac250]

Ferg said:

Thinking the others are, though, is always a giveaway.

As is thinking an M5 Touring is a sports car.
Or involving.
Or interesting.
It's just fast.
And, yes, I have driven one, albeit a saloon. Whilst the initial speed was entertaining, and it was very accomplished, it was just a mode of transport.

[CraigyMc]

davemac250 said:

Ferg said:

Thinking the others are, though, is always a giveaway.

As is thinking an M5 Touring is a sports car.
Or involving.
Or interesting.
It's just fast.
And, yes, I have driven one, albeit a saloon. Whilst the initial speed was entertaining, and it was very accomplished, it was just a mode of transport.

I had one of my most "interesting" moments as a passenger in an old M5 saloon many years ago. 140mph is not a good speed to overtake someone at, especially on a sliproad.

C

[Chicane-UK]

Mini's...

I fricking HATE them.

[B'stard Child]

DrTre said:

vixen1700 said:

Most old Vauxhalls really. A marque that probably has the least appeal of anything to me.

A dislike that probably stems back to childhood when my father went to order a Viva and they couldn't deliver it on time, so he bought a Citroen GS instead.

Yeah, Vauxhalls. For some reason I just don't get them and never have (though their more recent efforts seem to be OK)

This thread depresses me and sumarises all that is wrong with PH

Nowt wrong with old cars (even Vauxhalls and I'm not just defending them although I've quoted a post I disagree strongly with)

My 21 year old Vauxhall



My 26 year old Opel

[davemac250]

CraigyMc said:

I had one of my most "interesting" moments as a passenger in an old M5 saloon many years ago. 140mph is not a good speed to overtake someone at, especially on a sliproad.

C

That is not the car though is it?