Worst car ever made
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Having owned/driven a plethora of s
t cars over the years I think the worst I have encountered was a 5 door 1L Metro (I forget which badge it wore). It was a loan car whilst one of my many mini's was being fixed and the contrast was incredible. It was so dreadfully underpowered that it could barely drag itself around. The driving position was horrible and it leaked like a sieve.
By contrast my second car at the age of 17 was a 1500 Lada Riva which apart from drinking oil almost as fast as petrol was utterly reliable and RWD to boot. The steering box did have a habit of freezing up on the coldest mornings which was easily remedied with a kettle of hot water!
t cars over the years I think the worst I have encountered was a 5 door 1L Metro (I forget which badge it wore). It was a loan car whilst one of my many mini's was being fixed and the contrast was incredible. It was so dreadfully underpowered that it could barely drag itself around. The driving position was horrible and it leaked like a sieve.By contrast my second car at the age of 17 was a 1500 Lada Riva which apart from drinking oil almost as fast as petrol was utterly reliable and RWD to boot. The steering box did have a habit of freezing up on the coldest mornings which was easily remedied with a kettle of hot water!
Custard Test said:
I owned one of these :
Biggest pile of st I ever owned. Spent more time off road than one. It seemed to have a continuous radiator, water pump/temperature gauge/ fk know what/ heat problem twice a week. £400 to get it through it's last MOT before I scrapped it 10 months later. Money Pit
Agreed. My second car was a 19 16v which I owned for 12 months. 3 gearboxes, 2 radiatiors, 2 cluth cables and a speedo cable later it was sold... For a loss of course.Biggest pile of s
t I ever owned. Spent more time off road than one. It seemed to have a continuous radiator, water pump/temperature gauge/ fk know what/ heat problem twice a week. £400 to get it through it's last MOT before I scrapped it 10 months later. Money PitMay I also add the Renault Modus. My mam had one of these and I had the displeasure of driving it when my VX was off the road. It had thee worst gearbox I've ever endured. You needed the arms of Jeff Capes to engage 1st gear.
gog440 said:
Snoop Bagg said:
In my opinion and in no particular order!
NO NO NO NO NO
I will admit the looks are a bit "challenging" but it would seat 6 adults and get all their luggage in as well (unlike a zafira/scenic et al) and was a surprising amount of fun to chuck around. At the time they came out I needed a people carrier and this was by a very long way the best to drive and the most practical. Also with the 1.9jtd engine it was nippy off the line (a multipla is approx half a tonne lighter than a zafira) and did at least 40mpg everywhere
edited to add
and it was relable too, I did 55k miles in it, had to have a new terminal put on the battery lead (cos it broke) and a £20 crank sensor (this was the only time it actually refused to go, sensor said the engine isnt turning so it turned the fuel pump off.. at 80 mph whilst overtaking a truck on the m62. My good diesels slow down very quickly on the compression)
I remember I was at uni when the multipla came out and my housemate back then was a automotive design student in his final year. He used to rave about it, how its a car designers dream in terms to its use of internal space and all that. I just called it fugly, lol.NO NO NO NO NO
I will admit the looks are a bit "challenging" but it would seat 6 adults and get all their luggage in as well (unlike a zafira/scenic et al) and was a surprising amount of fun to chuck around. At the time they came out I needed a people carrier and this was by a very long way the best to drive and the most practical. Also with the 1.9jtd engine it was nippy off the line (a multipla is approx half a tonne lighter than a zafira) and did at least 40mpg everywhere
edited to add
and it was relable too, I did 55k miles in it, had to have a new terminal put on the battery lead (cos it broke) and a £20 crank sensor (this was the only time it actually refused to go, sensor said the engine isnt turning so it turned the fuel pump off.. at 80 mph whilst overtaking a truck on the m62. My good diesels slow down very quickly on the compression)
Edited by gog440 on Thursday 11th November 19:19
Edited by PaulG40 on Sunday 19th December 09:31
Bonefish Blues said:
odyssey2200 said:
lordlee said:
Yugo Zastava
What do you base that on?Edited by odyssey2200 on Saturday 18th December 21:14
Its earlier iteration was the only car that "actively" tried to kill me. Cephalonia, mid 80s, dampish road, terminal understeer, large drop etc.
Busa_Rush said:
dugsud said:
I think the Morris Marina is in the running and in particular the Coupe...in sahara beige 
The worst car I have ever driven and I've driven some really crap cars in my time
That's beautiful, especially in Limeflower with a black roof The worst car I have ever driven and I've driven some really crap cars in my time
The good news was that most Sundays he'd pick up my parents and I and my grandmother and we'd go somewhere interesting.
He had an Austin 1100 to start with and then got a turquoise Marina coupe - Because of that I think of trips to seaside and such pleasures when I see that car and so it can never figure in a worse car ever made category for me!
Of course if you were a REAL pistonhead it wouldn't either, because it's RWD and we ALL know that anything with RWD is better than anything without!
M.
PS My vote goes to the original Nissan Micra... just shading out the Tliumph Accraim!
Edited by marcosgt on Sunday 19th December 11:21
I'm shocked that more American cars arent making the nomination list.
Someone said the Chrysler Sebring, I say nay, nay and thrice nay!
It has no redeeming features it's true, but nothing truly wrong with it.
I rented one for a week and the only thing it failed to do for me was to outrun an Arkansas Police Camaro.
Someone said the Chrysler Sebring, I say nay, nay and thrice nay!
It has no redeeming features it's true, but nothing truly wrong with it.
I rented one for a week and the only thing it failed to do for me was to outrun an Arkansas Police Camaro.
I suspect most of the people nominating the multipla have never gone beyond seeing one and base their opinion on looks alone. Silly! 
We had one as the daily family hack for many years covering 50K plus in it. Took us on fully loaded long didstance holidays every year and apart from a broken windscreen and an exhaust never ever let us down.
They are a nice place to be, easy to drive and absolutely brilliant at what they were designed to do. And we bought ours BECAUSE of the looks!
I must also jump to te defence of the venerable Skoda Fellatio, not a bad car, just another case of does exactly what it says on the tin. I was initially forced into ownership as my daily driver died on me and I needed wheels urgently, my trader mate had taken one in as a part ex and wanted rid. I gave him buttons for it and drove away, only intending to keep it a week or so. Two years later I was still trundling round in "the Skud". Again never cost me a penny, always started, was warm and reliable in a bad winter. To the guy who said his had no suspension and the seats were full of bricks.....yours was broke mate.
Finally back to the City Rover, as I said much earlier in this thread, ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. I'd rather wallow in a VAT of whale st than have to get in one of those ever again.
We had one as the daily family hack for many years covering 50K plus in it. Took us on fully loaded long didstance holidays every year and apart from a broken windscreen and an exhaust never ever let us down.
They are a nice place to be, easy to drive and absolutely brilliant at what they were designed to do. And we bought ours BECAUSE of the looks!
I must also jump to te defence of the venerable Skoda Fellatio, not a bad car, just another case of does exactly what it says on the tin. I was initially forced into ownership as my daily driver died on me and I needed wheels urgently, my trader mate had taken one in as a part ex and wanted rid. I gave him buttons for it and drove away, only intending to keep it a week or so. Two years later I was still trundling round in "the Skud". Again never cost me a penny, always started, was warm and reliable in a bad winter. To the guy who said his had no suspension and the seats were full of bricks.....yours was broke mate.
Finally back to the City Rover, as I said much earlier in this thread, ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. I'd rather wallow in a VAT of whale s
t than have to get in one of those ever again.I'm going to nominate my first car:
...in its 800cc 2 speed auto guise. Horrid little rustbucket that was nowhere near as hardy as its predecessor. Mine had air conditioning which was nice, except living in the tropics if you tried to run it while driving during the day it would sap the engine of half the few bhp it made, and make it overheat.
...in its 800cc 2 speed auto guise. Horrid little rustbucket that was nowhere near as hardy as its predecessor. Mine had air conditioning which was nice, except living in the tropics if you tried to run it while driving during the day it would sap the engine of half the few bhp it made, and make it overheat.
binlicker said:
I suspect most of the people nominating the multipla have never gone beyond seeing one and base their opinion on looks alone. Silly!
We had one as the daily family hack for many years covering 50K plus in it. Took us on fully loaded long didstance holidays every year and apart from a broken windscreen and an exhaust never ever let us down.
They are a nice place to be, easy to drive and absolutely brilliant at what they were designed to do. And we bought ours BECAUSE of the looks!
Simply, you are right and they are wrong!We had one as the daily family hack for many years covering 50K plus in it. Took us on fully loaded long didstance holidays every year and apart from a broken windscreen and an exhaust never ever let us down.
They are a nice place to be, easy to drive and absolutely brilliant at what they were designed to do. And we bought ours BECAUSE of the looks!
Bonefish Blues said:
binlicker said:
I suspect most of the people nominating the multipla have never gone beyond seeing one and base their opinion on looks alone. Silly!
We had one as the daily family hack for many years covering 50K plus in it. Took us on fully loaded long didstance holidays every year and apart from a broken windscreen and an exhaust never ever let us down.
They are a nice place to be, easy to drive and absolutely brilliant at what they were designed to do. And we bought ours BECAUSE of the looks!
Simply, you are right and they are wrong!We had one as the daily family hack for many years covering 50K plus in it. Took us on fully loaded long didstance holidays every year and apart from a broken windscreen and an exhaust never ever let us down.
They are a nice place to be, easy to drive and absolutely brilliant at what they were designed to do. And we bought ours BECAUSE of the looks!
useyourdellusion said:
Bonefish Blues said:
binlicker said:
I suspect most of the people nominating the multipla have never gone beyond seeing one and base their opinion on looks alone. Silly!
We had one as the daily family hack for many years covering 50K plus in it. Took us on fully loaded long didstance holidays every year and apart from a broken windscreen and an exhaust never ever let us down.
They are a nice place to be, easy to drive and absolutely brilliant at what they were designed to do. And we bought ours BECAUSE of the looks!
Simply, you are right and they are wrong!We had one as the daily family hack for many years covering 50K plus in it. Took us on fully loaded long didstance holidays every year and apart from a broken windscreen and an exhaust never ever let us down.
They are a nice place to be, easy to drive and absolutely brilliant at what they were designed to do. And we bought ours BECAUSE of the looks!
va1o said:
I'd probably go with the CityRover if I had to choose one, it was a totally pointless exercise. Anyone on here with one want to defend it's existence?
I don't have one, and they certainly aren't great cars but it's blindingly obvious what the point of it was; Rover could buy them in far more cheaply than they could design and make their own. For exactly the same reason that Nissan is selling s re-badged Suzuki Alto.Gassing Station | General Gassing [Archive] | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff