Worst riding car you've had/been in?
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993kimbo said:
cerb4.5lee said:
I remember having a E92 330d SE(on 17" wheels) years ago as a loan car, and the ride was lovely(soft and compliant) in comparison to the E90 330d M sport(on 18" wheels) I had at the time.
Well there you go.Golf R Mk7 pre-facelift, specifically with non-DCC suspension and 18" wheels.
I got one on loan for 3 weeks when my Mk3 Leon Cupra ate its engine, which had DCC and while it rode "sporty" it was nothing particularly harsh unless you put it in Cupra mode. The Golf by comparison was comically stiff, when going over a small dip in the road that the Cupra would glide over the Golf let out such a colossal thud I thought something must have broken or buckled.
Just to buck the current trend for this thread the best riding car I have had is an Audi RS6 (4G generation), but it is on the standard RS air suspension not the dynamic coil overs.
I got one on loan for 3 weeks when my Mk3 Leon Cupra ate its engine, which had DCC and while it rode "sporty" it was nothing particularly harsh unless you put it in Cupra mode. The Golf by comparison was comically stiff, when going over a small dip in the road that the Cupra would glide over the Golf let out such a colossal thud I thought something must have broken or buckled.
Just to buck the current trend for this thread the best riding car I have had is an Audi RS6 (4G generation), but it is on the standard RS air suspension not the dynamic coil overs.
Paul671 said:
mybrainhurts said:
My Celica GT4 WRC...she's a bit lot crashy....
Modified? Haven't owned a GT4 in about 15 years, but I remember my old ST205 riding like a magic carpet on OEM wheels/suspension/bushes. After fitting coilovers and various other bits it rode like a shopping trolly down a flight of concrete stairs though.
My F30 330D M Sport rides pretty badly, I expected it to be stiff but it's really quite poor over badly rutted roads. This would be fine if there wasn't so much body roll in the corners.
I think if you have to put up with a crap ride but you have a car that corners nice and flat then that's ok, but mine seems to have the draw backs of both with none of the benefits.
Yes it is on run-flats and I have heard the ride improves on non run-flats but the fronts needed doing and I wasn't going to shell out for a full set of 4 non run-flats and be left with 2 run-flats to flog.
I think if you have to put up with a crap ride but you have a car that corners nice and flat then that's ok, but mine seems to have the draw backs of both with none of the benefits.
Yes it is on run-flats and I have heard the ride improves on non run-flats but the fronts needed doing and I wasn't going to shell out for a full set of 4 non run-flats and be left with 2 run-flats to flog.
Firmest ride- Mini Scamp kit car. It had standard Mini suspension, wheels and tyres, but was less than half the weight of a standard Mini. It just skittered about the road as if the wheels were welded directly onto the body. It only started to feel like it had suspension when it was loaded 4 up with some of my bigger mates.
Worst handling- FSO Polonez1500. Had one as a hire car once for a weekend but refused to drive it after the initial journey. Made alternative arrangements for the rest of the trip and abandoned it.
Worst handling- FSO Polonez1500. Had one as a hire car once for a weekend but refused to drive it after the initial journey. Made alternative arrangements for the rest of the trip and abandoned it.
MC Bodge said:
It is interesting that, despite the terrible ride, manufacturers produced these cars (the same ones keep being referred to) and people bought them in large numbers.
I wonder what the design brief for the S-line cars is/was? "Just fit large rims and make the suspension low and hard"?
From experience, I assume it was, " It's bad. Let's make it worse "I wonder what the design brief for the S-line cars is/was? "Just fit large rims and make the suspension low and hard"?
2005 Audi A3 Sport. Not even the S-Line.
Short wheelbase, very stiff springing and hugely over damped too. I didn't really notice on the short test drive, more fool me, but the awful awful ride was really wearing. The handing was nothing special (it's basically a Golf after all) so it's not as if I'd sacrificed ride for handling. Audi can make decent riding cars but that A3 wasn't one.
Short wheelbase, very stiff springing and hugely over damped too. I didn't really notice on the short test drive, more fool me, but the awful awful ride was really wearing. The handing was nothing special (it's basically a Golf after all) so it's not as if I'd sacrificed ride for handling. Audi can make decent riding cars but that A3 wasn't one.
I’ve got two cars, a B7 A4 S-Line - and a newish 308 SW diesel.
The two are leagues apart and really highlights how badly the A4 rides, but also how badly the 308 handles.
A compromise between the two would be lovely, however considering the 308 spends its life on the M25/M20 or in London it’s pretty much perfect, and as the A4 is a weekend car I can forgive the harshness.
The two are leagues apart and really highlights how badly the A4 rides, but also how badly the 308 handles.
A compromise between the two would be lovely, however considering the 308 spends its life on the M25/M20 or in London it’s pretty much perfect, and as the A4 is a weekend car I can forgive the harshness.
The worst car I have ever ridden in by far was my friend's Nissan GTR! He asked me to accompany him to look at a couple of De Tomaso Panteras at a dealer about 45 minutes away. (After driving my Pantera, he decided he had to have one). Not only was the GTR's suspension horrible, but the transmission clunked so badly it sounded like it was falling out of the car, and the terrible noise intrusion into the cabin was nearly unbearable. In fact, the ride was so bad that a} I told him I would never sit in that car again, and b) I was so shocked at how bad it was that I started reading car magazine reviews of the GTR from that year (2013) and other years just to see if anyone else had noticed. In nearly every review the terrible ride and the terrible transmission as well as the noise was mentioned, but the reviewers were so enamored with the performance, they just didn't care. What a piece of crap. Nissan out to be embarrassed that they could release a car so unrefined that my 50 year old Pantera feels like a Rolls Royce in comparison. I made my friend drive my 11 year old 185,000 mile Jaguar XKR afterwards and he even commented on how bad the GTR was. Fortunately, he sold it soon afterwards when he received his new C8 Corvette.
GOOD RIDDANCE!!
GOOD RIDDANCE!!
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