The worst car you've ever driven...

[Pooh]

GetCarter said:

sparks_E39 said:

spyker138 said:

612 Scaglietti. Too big, too heavy, horrid horrid F1 gear change and ugly.

The worst car you have driven is a modern Ferrari!

Not as good as the Fiat Multipla 1.9 TDi he's owned obviously

Oi, no need to slag off the Multipla, I had one and it was brilliant, in terms of doing the job it was designed to do, I have driven very few cars that are better.
With regard to the Ferrari, I suspect he is talking about most disappointing rather than worst.
The worst car I have aver driven was probably a Morris Marina.

[J4CKO]

burritoNinja said:

J4CKO said:

Lads Riva, worked at a dealers and took it to the banger auction in Altrincham, utter heap.

Corsa mk1 auto, had a sport button on the gear knob, it just made even more noise

Old fiat 500s, mildly amusing but terrible in most ways.

E30 BMW 116i touring auto, what were they thinking teaming that engine and box in that car, way too slow

Various purgatorial vag non turbo diesels, horrid things that would shake your fillings out at idle, gutless as well.

Micro 1 litre, my aunties car, apparently she thinks it is "nippy", ear, no it is not, it is st, no wonder she walks a lot.

You're saying about the BMW 116i being slow. I still can't understand why Rover made the M47 BMW engine in the MG ZT and Rover 75 at a pitiful 114bhp. That car was so sl]

ow pulling away that it was scary. Such a heavy car with 114bhp! You would think there would be safety measures in place to prevent engines being to weak for heavy cars.

The Rover is a diesel though, 200 lb/ft of torue, my mum had one for a while, not fast but better than the BMW with its 98 bhp and 110 lb/ft, twinned with a pretty dopey automatic, was my MIL's car, traded in a 320i manual, got this, all sporty looking, bit of a kit, looked good in white with BBS type alloys, got it for a song brand new as a cancelled order, it got sent back for an E36 320i, even non car folk have certain standards and expectations, the BMW didnt have enough "oomph" as she put it, and she isnt a fast driver, she was happy with a 100 bhp diesel auto Golf though, no more powerful but for the range she drove it in, the torque came in low enough to give an impression of performance, its just that was it, no more, you had it all in that first 3000 rpm, non car people dont like revving the tits off stuff, why they took to diesels so readily.

[Steve93]

Baryonyx said:

PaulG40 said:

Conversely, in our Nismo RS Juke, you're the one probably holding us up!

Funnily enough I was just thinking the other day that the Nismo Juke had become the 'angry dad road rage wker' vehicle of choice!

I was wondering this as I accelerated effortlessly away from a Juke Nismo thing that had adopted the usual MPV tailgating practice.

[Baryonyx]

Steve93 said:

I was wondering this as I accelerated effortlessly away from a Juke Nismo thing that had adopted the usual MPV tailgating practice.

It's probably the first 'quick' car many leasers have had. There are loads round where I work due to the Nissan plant in Sunderland. Mostly, though not exclusively, being driven badly by total idiots. My impressions of them might have been slightly coloured by the fact that the first one I saw on the road was trying to evade a police cordon on a road closure so it could drive through the scene of a car crash that hsd closed both lanes.

[Trabi601]

burritoNinja said:

You're saying about the BMW 116i being slow. I still can't understand why Rover made the M47 BMW engine in the MG ZT and Rover 75 at a pitiful 114bhp. That car was so slow pulling away that it was scary. Such a heavy car with 114bhp! You would think there would be safety measures in place to prevent engines being to weak for heavy cars.

To compensate for people who can't adjust their driving to the car and conditions?

114bhp in a Rover 75 or ZT is perfectly adequate.

[kambites]

KM666 said:

Its the reliablity that gets me. Following a mian dealer cambelt change the engine actually fell out of the car, the dealer put it right but it shouldnt happen in the first place.

If it's the same as the mk2, that's a (depressingly common) problem with the dealer rather than with the car. The engine mount bolts which have to be removed to change the belt are one-time use stretch-bolts but many dealers just shove the old ones back in and torque them up... and then they snap under load.

Having said that, our mk2 VRS has been pretty unreliable, but to be fair every part that's failed is generic VAG stuff; nothing Skoda specific has gone wrong. At least the Octavia is relatively cheap and unreliable as opposed to VWs and Audis which are expensive and unreliable.

Edited by kambites on Sunday 5th June 17:45

[SlimJim16v]

If some people think drab interiors and black door mirrors and handles make a car bad, they haven't a clue.

[Vitorio]

Objectively speaking a lot of people would say my Alfa 33 was probably the worst car in my history, id vehemently disagree though. Unreliable and rusty and ill maintained as it was, it was a joy to drive when it actually wasnt breaking down

Id have to go with either the corolla 1.4 diesel i learned to drive in, or the polo bluemotion i had for four mounths, the polo in particular was uncomfortable, noisy and just crap to drive

[DickyC]

After years of driving an enormous variety of cars and saying publically that every car has to have something to commend it, I recently drove an elderly Jeep Wrangler.

I've changed my mind. The Jeep Wrangler is 100% horrid.

[SlimJim16v]

DickyC said:

I've changed my mind. The Jeep Wrangler is 100% horrid.

Yep, test drove a CJ5 once, horrible. Still tempted to get a TJ though.

[98elise]

1.4 Non turbo diesel Ford Escort.

Gutless POS. I live on a hill and it couldn't go up it in anything over second. It would be red line in second, then I'd change up and the car would start to slow down.

The bloke that set company car policy mandated that we should all have small diesels, just after he took delivery of a Granada with the cosworth V6 engine.

It was so bad it was a key reason I left the company. HR said I wasn't the only person to list that as a reason for leaving! New comapny gave me a 2ltr Mondeo

[Tango13]

I briefly drove an original split screen Morris Minor, by modern standards it was horrible in every possible way but I'd imagine pretty much everything back then was equally awful so I'll give that one the benefit of the doubt.

The worst was probably a Citroen Saxo, horrible driving position, tinny, harsh, gutless and with all the structural integrity of a Kinder egg.

[Trabi601]

98elise said:

1.4 Non turbo diesel Ford Escort.

No such thing.

[Pothole]

Never driven an Eastern Bloc vehicle, except a Hungarian bus once when I was very very drunk and that seemed OK but I have nothing to compare it to.

My worst 2 are both Korean. A 900 triple Daewoo Matiz hire car in Spain and my long term hire car in Malta, a Kia Avela. I really tried to kill it, but it just wouldn't die...it was very loose by the time I gave it back, though.

[Warmfuzzies]

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This, had a Turbo badge, but I think they forgot to fit it, hateful vehicle

[KM666]

kambites said:

KM666 said:

Its the reliablity that gets me. Following a mian dealer cambelt change the engine actually fell out of the car, the dealer put it right but it shouldnt happen in the first place.

If it's the same as the mk2, that's a (depressingly common) problem with the dealer rather than with the car. The engine mount bolts which have to be removed to change the belt are one-time use stretch-bolts but many dealers just shove the old ones back in and torque them up... and then they snap under load.

Having said that, our mk2 VRS has been pretty unreliable, but to be fair every part that's failed is generic VAG stuff; nothing Skoda specific has gone wrong. At least the Octavia is relatively cheap and unreliable as opposed to VWs and Audis which are expensive and unreliable.

Edited by kambites on Sunday 5th June 17:45

It was exactly that. They initially tried denying it. I sent Skoda UK a photograph of a green paint marked bolt I recovered when it happened, they ordered the garage to have an engineer look at it after which they decided to replace the block, mounts, cambelt etc FOC.

I had heard reports of the MK5 golf having the same issue. VAG seem to like to carry faults over from one generation to another. Nothing specifically Skoda has gone on mine either. Must just be the VAG bits that are crap.

[kambites]

I don't think you can consider an incompetent mechanic buggering up a service to be a fault with the car. I think every car has loads of ways a garage can break it if they do something stupid.

I'm not sure why particularly they use stretch bolts for the engine mounts, but most manufacturers seem to use them somewhere.

[burritoNinja]

J4CKO said:

The Rover is a diesel though, 200 lb/ft of torue, my mum had one for a while, not fast but better than the BMW with its 98 bhp and 110 lb/ft, twinned with a pretty dopey automatic, was my MIL's car, traded in a 320i manual, got this, all sporty looking, bit of a kit, looked good in white with BBS type alloys, got it for a song brand new as a cancelled order, it got sent back for an E36 320i, even non car folk have certain standards and expectations, the BMW didnt have enough "oomph" as she put it, and she isnt a fast driver, she was happy with a 100 bhp diesel auto Golf though, no more powerful but for the range she drove it in, the torque came in low enough to give an impression of performance, its just that was it, no more, you had it all in that first 3000 rpm, non car people dont like revving the tits off stuff, why they took to diesels so readily.

I owned the diesel MG ZT and it was remapped to 160bhp and was pathetic in 1st and 2nd gear. Was the M47 engine in the 320D not around 180bhp stock?
98bhp must have been awful.

[MarshPhantom]

Escort 55 Van. Slow as fk. Struggled to get to 70 often.

[DegsyE39]

Jimmy Recard said:

DegsyE39 said:

X reg 1.0 corsa with the 3 pot lump, Hateful misery inducing turd heap. Crap handling slothlike performance, Just terrible... Also any other vauxhall, Worst seats of any car manufacturer imho, All like church pews.. Dogst

You drive a BMW and think that Vauxhall seats are bad!?

I can only speak from experience of two vauxhalls a corsa b and a mk4 astra, Corsa gave me back pain the astra was like sitting on old bits of wood hateful hateful hateful... ste handling understeering dross.

Only beemers i can make comparisons with are the e38 and e39 both with sports leather seats, And both exceedingly comfortable even when doing 300 odd miles or more.. Saab 9-5 seats piss on these and anything else for that matter though.

Regards.