What's the worst car you have ever driven?

[king Wombat]

daewoo matiz - was my courtesy car when some bugger drove into the back of my other car.

Felt like the gear stick was going to fall off every time i changed gear and takes about 3 weeks to get up to any speed in danger of breaking the speed limit. the lurid green colour topped off this driving disaster.

also had a metro, which was utter shite.

oh and a ford orion which had a unique feature of cutting out every time you slowed to a stop - for the first 15- 20 minutes until the engine warmed up.

 

[Pevenseagull]

A few years b I had the dubious pleasure of driving a Renault 5 'campus' for a week - I'd rather walk.

I was spoiled at the time 'cause I was borroing it whilst my ex BT- deisel Escort van was being fixed - that drove like a new BMW 5 series by comparrison.

That said, many, many moons ago I had a 'sporty' Renault 5 and that was top fun

 

[Set of Tracksuits]

oh and a ford orion which had a unique feature of cutting out every time you slowed to a stop - for the first 15- 20 minutes until the engine warmed up.

Ahh... so my Seat wasn't the only one!! I think you may find that the stalling at junctions feature came as standard with many of the shite cars of this era.

 

[zefarelly]

most of the cars mentioned thus far are either, old cheap eastern crap or a mixture of the former in a poor state of maintenance.

for new cars, I was sent a Vauxhaul people carrier type thing as a hire car a few months back, a zafira I think, I drove it to Liverpool and the seating/driving position was so piss poor that my knee jarred when I got there, I was in agony for about 2 hours until it settled down, then I had to drive the shit heap back to Sunny Sussex

utterly shyte car, with piss poor handling to boot, wobbled like a fat git on a tightrope on the motorway

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

On business in the US, given a GM cavellier ... makes an Allegro feel like Porsche.
Apparently acceleration wasn't an option with this particular model, neither were breaks but then they would have been redundant, if a lard arse could be a car then this is the car. Interior straight out of siberian gulag, so depressing I needed therapy. There A/C had an added feature ... car smelt of piss when turned.
Truly a bag of shite ... not even British Leyland could have turned out such a pile of excrement.

 

[SussexHoop]

I was given a Proton as a courtesy car, thankfully just for the day...worst car by a mile.

 

[B.M.F]

has to be the old 104 that looked like a rollerboot ( my 1st car ) or a Kia Pride that I learnt to drive in

 

[cheshunt seagull]

When the Polo I had ordered this year was unavailable SIXT car rental in Limassol 'upgraded' me 'at no extra cost' to a Seat Cordoba.
A total tank and completely unsuitable for the mountain roads of Cyprus. The muscles in my left leg grew noticeably as I tried to desperately find and hold the biting point.

 

[dougdeep]

E-Type Jaguar, I had to put my glasses on to see the end of the bonnet.

 

[Yorkie]

I had a Fiat 127 for a year.

 

[elbowpatches]

my mum's mini clubman when I was learning to drive, no suspension whatsoever, felt like I was zipping up the car when closing the door.

 

[oapdodge]

Lada

 

[hill 16 southwick]

Renault 4 in 1986

 

[Curious Orange]

Chrysler Sebring and Ford Mustang GT, both convertibles, both had enormous engines, both were automatic, neither could pull for toffee.

 

[Strike]

My dads mate once got abrand new Mazda 626 sometime in the 80's, and it ended up spending far more time in the garage than on the road. What a awful car.

 

[Bwian]

Chrysler Sebring and Ford Mustang GT, both convertibles, both had enormous engines, both were automatic, neither could pull for toffee.

I'm amazed Chrysler took so long to get a mention...

I once had a 76 New Yorker-about three blocks long and cost 5 bucks to start the thing up. When it got rolling 15 mpg was a result. It wallowed around like a drunk, the exhaust was blowing and it used almost as much oil as it did gas! It was comfortable though in a three piece suite kinda way!

Hated the Marina given to me as a temporary company car-I pulled a sickie so I wasn't seen driving the heap of crap.

Also had a Found On Road Dead Torino-it was a kind of shit brown colour and stalled everytime it got warmed up-which was pretty convenient driving in the city. Never did solve the problem-Starsky and Hutch owe me big time for influencing my buying decision on that pile of junk.

 

[NMH]

I actually dislike Ferrari, they are geared to perform at only the highest revs and so the thing screams while in 1st yet still only doing 35. I never found that comfortable to listen to.

I had a Honda Accord and I hated it. Tight engine you can run out of oil if you want, and it'll still live. However, not built to last, and the front wheel drive was flimsy - needed constant re-alignments and all sorts of other troubles.

Jeep rules.

 

[zefarelly]

I was given the company pool car whilst In StLouis a few years back, a metallic dog turd coloured Buick Century, absolutely dreadful, it wallow, pitched and awed (sp?) like an real thames barge, made you feel sea sick, dead slow, vague steering and spongey brakes

the only minor saving grace was the Hollywood tyres, it made full on Starskey and Hutch screeches just in a car park at 10-15 MPH when you hit the brakes to stop in a space the whole body would lurch forward another 6" than wobble like a blamanche until it cam to a rest