tonytaylor

Christer,
[quote] 1988 Vauxhall Nova (Opel Corsa) 1.2 Designer <hr></blockquote>
Is that a hatch or saloon? I have had 2 employees (female though) who were both complete nutters and they both drove Nova saloons !

Christer

it's a hatch back - 3 doors. it used to be my sister's car (and she is a nutter) ironically.

tonytaylor

Christer

Hatches are OK your obviously a man of taste - it`s the saloons that bring me out in a cold sweat.

SteveW@stig

The worst transport device (I hesitate to call it a car) I have used is a Ford Fiesta Diesel. No go what so ever, noisey as hell. It still brings a shudder to my spine when I remember the experience.

An alternative way a looking at this is: It is the best performance upgrade you can do to your 964. Drive some pile of s**t for a day then when you get back in your 964 is appears to go so much better than before

Carrera51

The Renault Fuego I had when I was 16. Awful car that liked to spit out spark plugs. Surprising that the can build a winning F1 engine but can't build a decent street car.

Jack667

1974 Ford Rustang


I used to drive alot of crappy cars, but this was the worst!!

Oilslick964

When I was a kid, my mom had a 1987 Cutlass Cierra and it was pretty bad. The back of the drivers seat would not stay up, so driving the car was a constant ab workout. The cassette door would not trip the switch so that the radio would work, so we stuck a tampon in it! (that looked pretty cool to have a tampon string hanging out of your stereo) and (seriously) it got stolen one night from our driveway and the police found the car less than a block away. I guess the theives felt sorry for us because they even left some change on the console (for gas I assume).
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Pete in DC

2 door Geo Metro loaner. I think a drilled airbox will give you more perceived horses than this had real ones.

Pete in DC

John Boggiano

[quote]Originally posted by Jeff Curtis:
<strong>Funny how many Fiats I've seen listed on here. <img src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" border="0" alt="[hiha]" />

My worst car was a Fiat X/19 that I owned for four days...took it back to the dealership and told the guy I would kick his A__ if he didn't credit me for another car!!

True story, wound up with a friggin' Vega! <img src="graemlins/cussing.gif" border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

I LOVED my X1/9. In fact, I even had TWO!

DaveS

Rented a Suzuki XL-7 from Avis. When I first heard the guy in the courtesy bus saw XL-7, I was hoping he meant XJ-7, but no dice.

This SUV "thing" could barely stay on the road, let alone not tip over. It took all of my skill just to keep it tracking between the lines of the highway.

DJF1

Interesting subject!

Being that I have driven an extensive list of cars I really cannot tell which was was the absolute worse so I will list my top 5!:

1. 2000 Lincoln Navigator: An absolute pig with no brakes , scary handling and 10mpg!!! What on earth people think when they buy these beasts?

2. 1997 Chevy Suburban: An equal pig like the navigator , after a Houston to LA and back trip I needed a chiropractor to set my back straight! Not to mention that while on the freeway in LA at 65mph the upper right suspension arm seared the screw that was holding it into place and nearly killed me and my wife! remarkably I was able to save the car with no damage...

3.1999 Chevy Cavalier. Uncomfortable, slow, what else need to be said?

4. 1994 Ford Thunderbird. A 3 or 2 speed auto box??? I felt like a captain of a cargo ship in heavy seas!!! What a dreadfull car!

5. 1996 Dodge Viper. Yes monster power but awful gear box, terrible brakes, twitchy handling, hot and uncomfortable interior. I especially liked the side exhaust which gave me a very nice burning sensation everytime I was in the car or getting in or out of it. I had the car for about a month before I decided that it would top my dredfull car list soon... In this time it overheated twice, the front right headlight developed an incurable water absorbance and the AC gave up its ghost. All this fun with a total of 2500 miles from new!

Thinking about these cars and others that have passed from my hands I'm really thankfull that I'm able to drive a reliable , fun, safe car.
Like the slogan says:
PORSCHE. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE!

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Emanuele Ferry23

Oops, I started the topic but I forgot to add my own worst car ever driven.

Renault 19 saloon, rented in Argentina at Iguacu falls resort. I don't know if it was a 1.2 or a 1.4 because probably also rear badge was optional. Its maximum speed varied from an awkward 105 km/h on 2% hills to a scary 170 km/h on slopes. I assume it was far beyond redline in this case (no rev counter). The accessories included NO powersteering, NO airconditioner, NO electric windows etc. It had a radio with a clock-like frequency indicator which was impossible to use.

We have listened to "La Cucaracha"-like songs for the whole length of the rental!!

P.S. Someone mentioned FIAT 124. My grandpa had three of them. Well, surely it was neither fast nor beutifully shaped but it was terribly solid. It's considered the first "world car" ever, it was produced in Italy, India, Russia, South America and Spain in licensed versions. I think that more than 8 millions were sold and production continues (in some derelict areas although)

Ruairidh

Nice topic Emanuele.

I'm going to exclude SUV's from my reply as I've yet to drive one that didn't scare the beejeezus out of me with poor braking and shiplike handling.

I'd like to give an honorable mention to my current daily driver - a 2001 SAAB 9-5 3.0 turbo wagon for single-handedly turning me off SAABs for life. I'd had two 9000turbos in the UK and, as daily drivers, liked them immensely. The 9-5 has the unstable feeling of a Suzuki jeep at virtually all speeds, turbo lag measured in minutes and none of the charm of older SAABs. Maybe it is not as bad in total as many of the cars mentioned by others but it disappoints more.

....... the winner for worst car?????

I think it would have to be the maroon 1999-2000 Pontiac Bonneville I recently had when I transferred to Michigan, the car had the steering and dynamics of a pig on ice; overheated fast and frequently; the stopping ability of an ocean liner - oh and to cap it all - it has something like 16 buttons just to adjust the seat (no kidding here they are on the center console in hard cheap grey plastic)and made me feel like a pimp in plaid.

Eric-17

.... inherited wife's "sports" car when we got married. Mid '80s Chevy Celebrity Eurosport... fully loaded. Horrible handling, terrible brakes/steering and was constantly losing something. The only thing "european" about it was the insurance premium becuse of the motor. What I hated most though was my wifes insistence that we trade cars everyother day so she could drive my Audi Coupe GT (not the greatest, but.....). <img src="graemlins/cussing.gif" border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" />

Rick964

I don't remember the exact year or model but it was about a 1999 or 2000 Citroen coupe. I was in Belgium on business and had rented this car. On the console there was a lever that you could slide into multiple positions to adjust the ride height of the car by several inches. Bus in this particular car the lever did not work, however the car would randomly adjust itself during braking or acceleration and usually just on one end at a time. So here we are driving down a street, hit the brakes and the nose goes up 2 inches, then hit the gas and the nose goes down and the rear end goes up like some 69 Mustang hot rodded. What a joke of a car. There was no discernable relationship between brakes, gas and which end would self-adjust. Got to love those French cars.