What's the worst car you have ever driven?

[chips and gravy]

For me it had to be the Metro - I had to learn in one and after passing my test it seemed like everybody I knew had one. I have driven at least half a dozen and they were all uniformly crap - none of them had any guts.

I even preferred driving my Mum's Skoda Estelle

 

[El Presidente]

Morris Marina, utter shiyte.

 

[Icy Gull]

A puke green Daf variomatic , the balaclava was optional

 

[m20gull]

I quote enjoyed my Marina, but only owned it for a month before trading it in (with rear suspension tied together with a piece of rope) for a (brand new!) Yugo.

Worst car ever - Vauxhall Frontera diesel. No redeeming features at all. I should have known better because even a dealer told me not to buy one. Eventually I did and owned it for six weeks before trading it in.

 

[The Large One]

All the old eastern-bloc countries have their own state-owned car manufacturers. Czechoslovakia had the Skoda, East Germany the Trabant, USSR the Lada. Poland had the FSO. I drove one of those a few times. My then girlfriend’s dad had one for towing a caravan aroud Europe in it.

It was very reliable, very sturdy and always started first time -even in the cold. Driving it, however, was the automobile equivalent of pulling teeth. Its first gear got you to all of, ooh, 5mph. By the time you eventually got into fifth gear, you weren’t going much faster. The body was the size of Edinburgh, but with non-adjustable seats, a steering wheel of such resistance it belonged in a gym, and a breaking distance of about 6 miles.

It was the sort of car than naff ‘Nuts in May’ type caravanners would go cruising in. Although I use the word ‘cruising’ in its widest possible context. You needed to go headhunting at NASA to work out how the windows opened. And the car horn was, well, baa-aaa, baa-aaa. I’ve heard more terrifying guinea pigs.

f***ing awful car.

 

[zefarelly]

I have to agree a metro is about the worst I've driven and an Allegro is dire as well

but for ownership it has to be an 87 cavalier . . . .attrocious in the wet

a strange one, but an Aston Martin V8 I drove was very uncomfortable and cramped, as well as unbearably hot

a Jag XJS was cramped although not quite as bad as the Aston

 

[Set of Tracksuits]

K reg Seat Ibiza in off-white with brown "rust-spots" finish.

Refused to start when it has been raining and overheated within 20 minutes when the temperature was over 20 degrees C.

Used to stall at every junction when the engine was cold meaning that, even now, my hand still sometimes subconsciously wanders down to the ignition when I'm approaching a set of red lights.

 

[JJ McClure]

There's been a few.
My old astra was a bit of a dog, but that was more down to reliability than the actual drive of the car.
The car I hate most though was my company mondeo. It was fine on a motorway and in a straight line, but as soon as you showed it a corner it wanted to go straight on. Appalling handling. Utter piece of diesel shit.

 

[Lammy]

A Hyundia Pony. The name says it all really...

 

[Superphil]

I was test driving a new Shogun Sport recently, it was so bad I drove out of the dealership, around the first roundabout I came to (50 yards) and then back into the dealership, shocking.

But there is worse, a Mazda 6 diesel, I pulled out of the forecourt, and went straight back into the next entrance, it sounded like a diesel helicopter with a blowing exhaust.

Both of them do not deserve to be sold under the description "car".

 

[zefarelly]

ahh . . .. following on from The large on . . .Romania has the Dacia, a truly terrifying vehicle, based in an old renault 12 ( i think) but built out of pooh and appalingly finished, as well as hideously neglected and run for millions of miles, very very scary to be in

 

[(was)DBS]

Austin Allegro utter shite

 

[tinx]

A land rover freelander. The most horrible driving position ever and an ugly car at that. Given it as a pool car at work once and I took it back an hour later and swapped it as therte was no way I cold drive a long journey in such a shit motor.

 

[Marc]

my old mans old Cortina Estate, huge ass green thing, slight dampness on the road and the back end would swing out sideways, made for some fun driving but having only just passed my test it was a horrid drive! Judging gaps and whether its safe to turn was hairy!

 

[Ding Dong !]

An old Ford Cortina when I was learning to drive..It was the absolute pits but got me through my driving test 20 years ago.

 

[Bluejuice]

I'm so sad to hear the mighty Metro get such a dissing.

Yeah they were shit but they had character.

My MG Metro of a few years back also had a bit of bite to it. To this day I remember it out accelerating my Mum's brand new Fiesta Zetec, and damn I felt proud.

Of course it rusted away to shit shortly after but that groovy spoiler and the stylish silver MG badging made it a car to be proud of.

Worst car I ever drove was the Nissan Micra I learned to drive in. It wasn't even an old one, it was one of the newer bubble shapes. It drove passably but I think the biggest issue was the embarrassment factor of being seen in it. Ugly as sin

 

[REDLAND]

Ford Mondeo, could stand straight for days after driving one back from Plymouth !!

 

[perth seagull]

I drove my neighbour's convertable 1960s MG. Apparently it is supposed to be a classic, but regardless it is a piece of shit to drive. A tiny and noisy tin can with an engine that vibrates it shakes the whole car, and you'd be squashed like an ant in an accident!

 

[Superphil]

A land rover freelander. The most horrible driving position ever and an ugly car at that. Given it as a pool car at work once and I took it back an hour later and swapped it as therte was no way I cold drive a long journey in such a shit motor.

That was the other car I drove, I had one when they first came out and loved it, so now tha I am going for a new car I thought I'd test drive the current model. Went for a test drive last week, and the seat is so high (and doesn't adjust) your head is touching the roof lining, and you can't see the top third of the speedometer between 50 and 90mph cos the steering wheel doesn't adjust any higher. A £24K car with no seat adjustment? I don't think so.

 

[Juan Albion]

Having owned an FSO 125, a Seat Ibiza and a Talbot Alpine, I think I can comment on this.

There is no doubt in my mind that the 125 was the biggest pile of junk ever. Had automatic windows though, just like the heap in that episode of Only Fools and Horses - only work if you slam the door hard enough.