Worst car ever driven....
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'78 Chrysler Avenger. Turning radius? Don't make me laugh! You needed tugboats to execute any directional change. Brakes, ahh so, you wish to stop, try another car. PO had fake lambskin interior done. Poverty in college forced me to hang on to it for a year (it was given to me). Actually managed to sell it....
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Kris
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From: san jose, ca
[quote]Originally posted by John Boggiano:
<strong>I LOVED my X1/9. In fact, I even had TWO!
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Me too, although I had only one. Won me many autocross trophies.
Worst I've ridden in was a friend of a friend's Vega. It had the distinction of being noisier on the inside of the car than the outside at 60 mph when tested by some car rag. He had checked and filled the tires before a trip and found the front tires rubbed while turning the wheel to lock. He took it in (still under new car warranty) and when they cheerfully returned it, the front tires no longer rubbed. You guessed it, they had just let some of the air out of the tires.
<strong>I LOVED my X1/9. In fact, I even had TWO!
</strong><hr></blockquote>Me too, although I had only one. Won me many autocross trophies.
Worst I've ridden in was a friend of a friend's Vega. It had the distinction of being noisier on the inside of the car than the outside at 60 mph when tested by some car rag. He had checked and filled the tires before a trip and found the front tires rubbed while turning the wheel to lock. He took it in (still under new car warranty) and when they cheerfully returned it, the front tires no longer rubbed. You guessed it, they had just let some of the air out of the tires.
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From: USA
Worst car I drove had to be a 1982 Ford Escort Wagon (auto). What a pile of crap.
I had to laugh at GeorgeC2Cab's complaint about the blazer. I owned a 1985 blazer for 13 years. I credit that car for enabling my Porsche habit as I was able to save money for that period of time. Never let me down and I drove the **** out of that truck through 13 Colorado and Idaho winters.
I had to laugh at GeorgeC2Cab's complaint about the blazer. I owned a 1985 blazer for 13 years. I credit that car for enabling my Porsche habit as I was able to save money for that period of time. Never let me down and I drove the **** out of that truck through 13 Colorado and Idaho winters.
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In defence of FIAT. The car I wish I had never sold was my 1976 Fiat 124 1800 Sport Twin Cam. I was actually driving this 124 when I decided that a 911 was what I was going to have one day when 2 brand new 911SCs blasted past me on the South Eastern Freeway in 1978. I saw their fat butts disappearing over the hill and said "I have to get me one of those things one day!"
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PS: The 124 was the first European car I ever owned and I learned by doing most repairs. Great little thing to work on.
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PS: The 124 was the first European car I ever owned and I learned by doing most repairs. Great little thing to work on.
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From: London (England)
The 1989 Ford Fiesta 1.1 'Bonus' is a clear winner for me. No speed, no handling, no brakes and a really rough engine, what a joke. And to think it has been a bestseller in the UK for years...
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From: Bolton, England
1995 Saab 2.3 Cabriolet.
Scuttle shake
turgid handling,wallowy damping, yet bone hard ride
feel less steering
noisy
crap at everything save motorway cruising
Alfa 156 2.5 V6
great engine
everything else overated including the short lived illusion of build quality
oh nothing depreciates better!!
I love my Porsche and wouldn't part with it. I have a Merc Sl for cruising and a BMW 5 series tourer for towing etc.
As an allrounder though my BMW 535i (E28) took some beating and lasted 170k + miles!
Scuttle shake
turgid handling,wallowy damping, yet bone hard ride
feel less steering
noisy
crap at everything save motorway cruising
Alfa 156 2.5 V6
great engine
everything else overated including the short lived illusion of build quality
oh nothing depreciates better!!
I love my Porsche and wouldn't part with it. I have a Merc Sl for cruising and a BMW 5 series tourer for towing etc.
As an allrounder though my BMW 535i (E28) took some beating and lasted 170k + miles!
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From: Germany
I will probably get flamed for this, but here goes. . . I have drivn some older cars and over time things in general have gotten better with new cars; however, one new car that I test drove when trying to decide between the C4 and numerous others was a new Mercedes SLK compressor hardtop convertible. I flat out did not like this car. Granted, I drove the 230 which was a supercharged four cylinder and not a six but it was a dog. Interior finnish was way below my expectations, the powerband was horrible, the visibility in the car is horrendous. In short, a crap car in my opinion. Why even own a convertible if you can't enjoy it because the door height is at your neck level?
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From: Utrecht, Netherlands
An Opel Corsa sedan... That car is total crap (any Opel is, IMHO, with the possible exception of the Lotus Omega). Had to drive it for 4 days and I actually took my bike for the shorter trips... Mind you, I *hate* riding a bike. <img src="graemlins/cussing.gif" border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" />
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From: La Spezia - City of Sun&Sea , Italy
Adrian mentioned the LEGEND: Volvo 240!
My father had one when I was a child, a 240 GLE D6. It was more similar to a truck than to a car, thanks to its inline-six Diesel with no compressor with a peak power of 82 HP!! Well, it lasted 260000 kms but it had the same noise as a Caterpillar. Handling was terrific and we have always wondered how Finns could drive it on ice. This not to mention emissions: any time my father accelerated an iceberg fell off North Pole pack!!
My father had one when I was a child, a 240 GLE D6. It was more similar to a truck than to a car, thanks to its inline-six Diesel with no compressor with a peak power of 82 HP!! Well, it lasted 260000 kms but it had the same noise as a Caterpillar. Handling was terrific and we have always wondered how Finns could drive it on ice. This not to mention emissions: any time my father accelerated an iceberg fell off North Pole pack!!
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I didn't own it, but I'll have to nominate the Chevy Chevette *diesel* owned by a friend during high school. It smelled like a city bus, wasn't much faster, was louder than a race hemi (thanks to a rusted muffler) and had an interesting "tail gunner" shaking steering wheel effect when applying the brakes.
It was a $200 car that really wasn't worth the purchase price.
It was a $200 car that really wasn't worth the purchase price.
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From: Parafield Gardens
We called the Volvo 240 the great white whale. Its most useful purpose in life would have been as a sea anchor. The Leyland P-76 did find it true pupose in life. Landfill.
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From: Malmesbury, UK
Lincoln Towncar - after I stopped it rocked back and forth on the jelly it had instead of suspension
American Ford Escort - I had to switch off the aircon every time I wanted to overtake anything
Ford Fiesta Diesel - acceleration, what acceleration ?
Actually every US car I've driven went like an underpowered blancmange
I actally liked driving my Fiat 124 although the rust spread so quickly you could almost see it move. Similarly I got to like the quirkiness of the Lancia Fulvia Coupes I had as a lad.
Tony
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American Ford Escort - I had to switch off the aircon every time I wanted to overtake anything
Ford Fiesta Diesel - acceleration, what acceleration ?
Actually every US car I've driven went like an underpowered blancmange
I actally liked driving my Fiat 124 although the rust spread so quickly you could almost see it move. Similarly I got to like the quirkiness of the Lancia Fulvia Coupes I had as a lad.
Tony
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From: Parafield Gardens
Dear Tony,
I still have nightmares about driving that Lincoln Towncar down from Toronto to Detroit and back again. Talk about getting sea sick. I think I am still swaying in response to the first time I had to brake hard. It would have been more fun cornering on a pogo stick. In fact a flat bottomed sea going ferry would get around the corners better and certainly more upright. Wer should stop this conversation though. Thinking of these horrible cars I have driven! thats it, need therapy again, time for a drive,
Ciao,
Adrian
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I still have nightmares about driving that Lincoln Towncar down from Toronto to Detroit and back again. Talk about getting sea sick. I think I am still swaying in response to the first time I had to brake hard. It would have been more fun cornering on a pogo stick. In fact a flat bottomed sea going ferry would get around the corners better and certainly more upright. Wer should stop this conversation though. Thinking of these horrible cars I have driven! thats it, need therapy again, time for a drive,
Ciao,
Adrian
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From: Norfolk
[quote]Originally posted by Adrian:
<strong>Leyland P-76, Volvo 240, Morris Marina and the vast majority of American cars I have driven. It is always a toss up between the Lincoln Towncar or the Leyland P-76.
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911C4</strong><hr></blockquote>
In my teens I went out with a girl called Marina Morris!
But I digress. Can't remember what it was called but it was a small Volvo that loked like a DAF and had a 'variomatic' gear box (belt drive one gear like a moped). Only redeeming feature was that it would go as fast backwards as forwards!
<strong>Leyland P-76, Volvo 240, Morris Marina and the vast majority of American cars I have driven. It is always a toss up between the Lincoln Towncar or the Leyland P-76.
Ciao,
Adrian
911C4</strong><hr></blockquote>
In my teens I went out with a girl called Marina Morris!
But I digress. Can't remember what it was called but it was a small Volvo that loked like a DAF and had a 'variomatic' gear box (belt drive one gear like a moped). Only redeeming feature was that it would go as fast backwards as forwards!
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[quote]Originally posted by Roygarth:
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In my teens I went out with a girl called Marina Morris!
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You are joking right?
Was she born before or after the launch of the Morris Marina (1971??)?
I bet she suffered all the jokes!
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In my teens I went out with a girl called Marina Morris!
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You are joking right?
Was she born before or after the launch of the Morris Marina (1971??)?
I bet she suffered all the jokes!
Regards