RE: Mitsubishi Carisma | Shed of the Week

[ScoopyDoo]

waynecyclist said:

That is a complete shed, worse named car ever

Totally agree. I’d want to wear a bag on my head driving that. Clearly, one for people for no self-respect. I think the dealer’s missing some syntax in his pricing ... which should read £6.75!

[Notanotherturbo]

The least aptly named car ever. My Dad was the least interested person in cars ever and even he said it was the dullest car he ever owned!

[cylinderfin]

Just trying to think of something worthwhile to say about the Charisma..................... uuuuurrrhh no, another wasted Friday evening...

[Alan3303]

Most reliable shed ever?

[usualdog1]

Proper LOL! well done shed

[Porker2004]

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.

[AMGSee55]

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.

[Gad-Westy]

I had a quick look through the classifieds on Thursday night to see if I could guess what SOTW would be. I'd narrowed it down to two contenders. I must admit, this was not one of them!

[edwheels]

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.

[blue_haddock]

I used to work in car leasing and man these things were cheap! Punted loads of them out as they had a decent spec for like 179 a month!

For about 20quid more a month they could have had a pug 406 hdi rapier which was so much better but some tight wads still ordered the mitsi!

[CDP]

Sion111R said:

CDP, steady on. It’s not that bad.

Which one would you rather slide round a wet roundabout?

[RobEB]

There's a Carisma 1.6 for sale in Torquay for £800, on Autotrader. With leather seats too.

[paulyv]

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.

[AlexiusG55]

At one point the fastest I had ever travelled on a public road was in a diesel Carisma.

Specifically an Athens airport taxi.

[miconone]

This is the best view of the one I owned:



Unfortunately it wasn’t written off!

[Gad-Westy]

miconone said:

This is the best view of the one I owned:



Unfortunately it wasn’t written off!

Sorry to hear that. Can't have been easy.

[993kimbo]

Nicely written article - very witty.

[Mr Tidy]

That looks about as exciting as the Mazda 323f 1.5i I bought in April 2014!

Gutless pudding POS, so no wonder I sold it in December 2014.

Photo of my 323f here so you know what to avoid!

[DomRoePhotography]

I followed the ad, wanting to see how little they wanted for such a crapsterpiece... They're asking a steep amount for something with that bodywork and that short an MOT. I'd want to knock half off that to even vaguely consider it!