RE: Mitsubishi Carisma | Shed of the Week
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Really rare for me to post but thanks to all who do. Picked one of these hideous creatures up as an airport hire car back in the day. Drove it two miles turned round and took it back and told rental company it was fairly nippy but unsafe the torque steer was so bad (1.6 petrol!!). Guy at the desk shrugged and said I was not the first to bring it back and gave me a Mondeo thank goodness. Just take it to the crusher.
An old work colleague used to have one of these - 03 plate as I recall. I don’t remember the gap between the seat base and backrest, but I do remember they were leather, yet somehow managed to look, feel and smell like vinyl and the owner rather comically wore driving gloves seemingly made out of the same material. To give it its due it was very reliable, at least until he stacked it - cue a gazillion “lost your carisma” punchlines.
Great write up of the most ironically named car ever.
When I saw the pic on the front page of the website I assumed it was one of those sheds which, whilst dull, made up for this by being in timewarp condition (like the MK3 Golf CL a few weeks back).
After reading, of course, it seems it not only has a short MOT, it has failed on corrosion recently, the bodywork is a total mess and it's has an insurance write-off certificate. It is also an 'unfasionable' older, soot-belcher-spec diesel.
The only way to make anyone look twice at this car would be to park it badly and put a 'Police Aware' sticker on it.
When I saw the pic on the front page of the website I assumed it was one of those sheds which, whilst dull, made up for this by being in timewarp condition (like the MK3 Golf CL a few weeks back).
After reading, of course, it seems it not only has a short MOT, it has failed on corrosion recently, the bodywork is a total mess and it's has an insurance write-off certificate. It is also an 'unfasionable' older, soot-belcher-spec diesel.
The only way to make anyone look twice at this car would be to park it badly and put a 'Police Aware' sticker on it.
I had one of these for a while back in the mid-2000's. It was a hand-me-down but was fine for what it was - a boring characterless car. I would say 'at least it got us from A to B' but one evening it started to smell of burning, smoke started coming out the air vents and as I pulled over to the side of the road the car filled with an acrid cloud and the central locking activated. Not difficult to get out but the best thing I can say about the car is that it gave me this story. Fire brigade had to come and squirt some water on it.
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