Worst riding car you've had/been in?

[Rob 131 Sport]

Frankthered said:

Nickbrapp said:

I think stiff suspension is a bit of a Honda trait but agree, there isn't really a reason for this on a family car. Which is why I find the popularity of the M-Sport, AMG-line, S & R-Line variants so difficult to understand, although I do have to acknowledge that I made the same mistake by buying a Civic "Sport"!

The sporty model variants as stated all look great, so personally I wouldn’t choose anything else. My current M Sport 530 has an acceptable ride as did its predecessor a Mercedes E250AMG.

When choosing the current car, I also test drive an ‘S’ Spec Jaguar XF and an Audi A6 3.0 Quattro S Line. Both had acceptable ride quality and especially in the case of the Audi looked great.

[FiF]

Mini Cooper Convertible on run flats that had been taken in by the garage to settle a bad debt and turned into a customer loan car.

[dvshannow]

FiF said:

Mini Cooper Convertible on run flats that had been taken in by the garage to settle a bad debt and turned into a customer loan car.

The is the worst car you have ever driver ?

[FiF]

dvshannow said:

FiF said:

Mini Cooper Convertible on run flats that had been taken in by the garage to settle a bad debt and turned into a customer loan car.

The is the worst car you have ever driver ?

Read the thread title again, worst riding car, and yes it was also a heap.

Another thing, your nine word sentence containing two mistakes plus the failure to read the thread title properly. Is that the most illiterate sentence ever written on PH? Could be a contender, possibly.

HTH

[Jonstar]

iMZee said:

Mégane rs250 with the cup pack. Never been in a car with springs so stiff, the dampening was actually pretty good and it could round off like 2mm of the bump before it breaks yours back.

This! The fn2 is an s class in comparison.

[flatso]

A 2010 Audi A5 Sportline, even on ultra smooth Autobahn surface this was an absolutely horrendous riding car. The suspension was probably made of concrete by some sadistic engineers. An embarassing display of lack of any sense of finesse.

[yellowbentines]

Anonymous-poster said:

It’s a pity they don’t do something along the lines of you being able to test drive the car before you buy or am I being unrealistic!

Is that you Dad?

The CLS I got sucked in by it's good looks and the salesman. I was trading in my 3rd E-Class estate, and the CLS was boxed in behind many other cars. The salesman convinced me that the CLS sat between my E-Class and an S-Class and would ride even better than the E. The engine and gearbox were the same as my E, the interior similar but nicer, and the exterior stunning IMO, so I stupidly signed up before test driving. I believe on air suspension they are lovely.

The MINI Cooper was a new model, the convertible, so I ordered before launch therefore couldn't test drive. I was young and it was my first new car, I ticked the large wheels and sports suspension of course, and MINI threw in some runflat tyres and a shaky convertible body to ensure a rattly boneshaking ride. Could corner flat at silly speeds though, and got most of my money back after 1yr.

[Niffty951]

Kawasicki said:

Niffty951 said:

993kimbo said:

Most cars on 18” + wheels.
997 Porsche C4s and Boxsters were both horrible.
Audi TT undriveable.
Depends on the roads of course. Mine are pretty bad.

Never buy M030 cars. Thw sports option suspension P'cars are awful for road use. The non-M030 suspension is among the best of any car, any brand.

I had a 944 Turbo with M030, it had a super controlled ride on very bad roads, great grip consistency, but not comfortable. But it was a Porsche, so comfort wasn’t what I bought it for.

944 M030 was definitely no where near as bad as the later >2000 era M030 cars but still rattled over the bumps, less stable under braking on a lumpy surface and understeered far more than the Non M030 cars that used to 'dig in' a bit more on corner entry and find grip. Pre ABS, early offset 944 was the best handling in my opinion, it definitely had the ability to bite

[Kawasicki]

Niffty951 said:

Kawasicki said:

Niffty951 said:

993kimbo said:

Most cars on 18” + wheels.
997 Porsche C4s and Boxsters were both horrible.
Audi TT undriveable.
Depends on the roads of course. Mine are pretty bad.

Never buy M030 cars. Thw sports option suspension P'cars are awful for road use. The non-M030 suspension is among the best of any car, any brand.

I had a 944 Turbo with M030, it had a super controlled ride on very bad roads, great grip consistency, but not comfortable. But it was a Porsche, so comfort wasn’t what I bought it for.

944 M030 was definitely no where near as bad as the later >2000 era M030 cars but still rattled over the bumps, less stable under braking on a lumpy surface and understeered far more than the Non M030 cars that used to 'dig in' a bit more on corner entry and find grip. Pre ABS, early offset 944 was the best handling in my opinion, it definitely had the ability to bite

Cheers for answering. My colleague recently described the handling on his Dad's early 944 to me. It sounded like a completely different car from what I experienced in one of the last 944. He said it demanded respect, where I thought my 944 was extremely stable and forgiving (except for the rare instances when the back would lose grip on corner exit).

[Deranged Rover]

Brother in laws’s old Mini Countryman.

I’m not convinced it actually had any suspension.

[Diderot]

My old Z4 M Coupe. Brutally harsh ride.

[Gareth1974]

My FN2 Civic Type R.
I commuted by train when I first had it, and only used the car for leisure purposes, so could tolerate the ride, but as soon as my job changed and I had to do a 15,000 miles per year commute, it had to go.

[KTMsm]

For 4 hours travelling from the airport to our camp in Kenya in a very tired Land Rover 110

I'm used to rough cars and I'm used to rough roads but combined, this trip was torture, with heat and exhaust gasses thrown in for good measure

Great start to our honeymoon

[Riff Raff]

Gad-Westy said:

Smart FourTwo. 451 if it matters. Had it for 2 years and learnt every undulation on my regular 10 mile commute. Speed bumps were horrendous.

But still not as bad as many of the modified horror shows some of my pals and I had back in yesteryear. Sporty innit!

I think it does matter. We had a 451 for a couple of years and the ride was awful, not helped by the jerky and jolty msd transmission. The Mrs now has a 453 with a proper dct box, and the difference is night and day.

[gizlaroc]

2005 Audi S4 avant.

Just because it should be a very comfy car that happens to also be quite quick.

But it was just horrible, so crashy and not sporty because of it. It lasted around 12 weeks.

I said I would never own another Audi again. I forgot that and bought a 2.0T S-Line avant a few years later, that lasted around 3 weeks.



The Z4 Coupe on run flats comes a close second, but once off run flats, more relaxed geo set up, it turns pretty damned comfy and compliant.

[E63eeeeee...]

Been in - basically any taxi in Malta.

Had - the E63 is pretty close to the line of acceptable. I sometimes think that if you're going to have adjustable suspension with a "comfort" mode it should actually be comfortable, but presumably that's the price you pay for being able to do sickening cornering speeds on motorway slip roads without pressing any buttons. There's a handful of roads that Sport mode is ok on, and I think I've been in Dentist+ mode about twice in over a year. I've seen 18in wheels for £1500 which I'm thinking quite seriously about. The seats are good enough that it's never actually physically uncomfortable but it definitely gets me in the mechanical sympathy.

[TheInternet]

Kawasicki said:

Car tuning goes wrong sometimes? The wrong compromise?

That or perhaps cost cutting? The subsequent Civic, which is mechanically very similar, is a pretty normal ride.

[Sticks.]

ddom said:

BMW M Sport suspension on various models, it’s just garbage. Too much rebound, not enough compression, nothing is in harmony.

'Too much rebound' nails the problem with the post 2006 BMWs I've driven. Audi ride is harsh, but the BMWs seem to accentuate the bumps.

I'm surprised people find the Z4 too harsh once the RFTs are changed. The seat padding's a a bit thin, if anything - may be different on later models.

[Fonzo]

Any car with run-flats. My C Class was horrid with the factory tyres, and they wore out within less than 8,000 miles.

[Kawasicki]

TheInternet said:

Kawasicki said:

Car tuning goes wrong sometimes? The wrong compromise?

That or perhaps cost cutting? The subsequent Civic, which is mechanically very similar, is a pretty normal ride.

Absolutely...Hey we can save £2 per vehicle if we used this cheap fuel tank design, but rear axle bump travel is reduced from 75 to 50mm.