Worst car ever driven....
08-21-2002, 07:08 PM
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Hi Ruairidh
I promise it's true! She was born before the Morris Marina's UK launch. She was the opposite not only in name! Great looks, handling, rot free chassis.........well you get the idea!
BR
Piers
I promise it's true! She was born before the Morris Marina's UK launch. She was the opposite not only in name! Great looks, handling, rot free chassis.........well you get the idea!
BR
Piers
08-22-2002, 06:15 AM
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Roygarth: That Volvo that looked like a DAF was actually a DAF. They were produced shortly after Volvo purchased that car-division of DAF. I believe it was the Volvo 66. The volvo 340 could also be ordered with a variomatic.
Daf is a dreadfull car indeed, but it has rearwheel-drive. A friend of mine got the DAF from his grandma when she stopped driving. He was sideways most of the time. Can you imagine how people looked when they saw a DAF coming sideways through a corner? <img src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" border="0" alt="[hiha]" />
Daf is a dreadfull car indeed, but it has rearwheel-drive. A friend of mine got the DAF from his grandma when she stopped driving. He was sideways most of the time. Can you imagine how people looked when they saw a DAF coming sideways through a corner? <img src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" border="0" alt="[hiha]" />
08-22-2002, 11:30 AM
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It was my Grandad's 1981 Nissan Sunny when I was 19. A truely awful awful car. 1300cc of jap crap. Loose steering, soft suspension, naff seats, in metallic brown, with beige interior.
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08-22-2002, 03:33 PM
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1980 Triumph TR-7 - When it was running it was a pleasure to drive. I warped 3 heads in the car and watched the temperature guage more than the speedometer. It also had a nasty habit of shutting off in traffic and you had to open the hood and jiggle all of the electrical wires until you could finally start it back up again. The car had 0 pick-up and it was in the shop more than on the road.
07-15-2004, 02:41 PM
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Something called a 'Nubira' - I think it was made by Daewoo. Steering wheel seemed to offer no clue as to the angle of the front wheels. A curious experience.
A TR7 pushes it close, but the involvement then of BL mechanics (who have to have been trained how NOT to be mechanics, they were that good at being bad) makes it difficult to know exactly how bad the car itself was.
A TR7 pushes it close, but the involvement then of BL mechanics (who have to have been trained how NOT to be mechanics, they were that good at being bad) makes it difficult to know exactly how bad the car itself was.
07-15-2004, 03:10 PM
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The worst vehicle I’ve driven was the 19-who-knows-what-year POS 26’ U-Haul moving van I rented in an attempt to save myself from paying the $80 delivery charge on an Ikea sleeper-sofa.
I recall that the truck had something like 9 millions miles on the odometer, couldn’t accelerate above 40mph, got 2 or 3 miles to the gallon, and I had to hold the wheel at 30 degrees off center just to keep the thing tracking straight!
The interior cab engine access “hump” panel didn’t close properly, so not only did it sound like you were riding underneath a freight train, the cab heated up to 400 degrees Kelvin (causing the inside of the windshield to condense & fog like a thick layer of primer). The a/c & defrosters only blew from one vent and had 2 settings: off and mostly off.
I’m also convinced U-Haul had the exhaust pipes rerouted so they fed directly into the cab.
It was pouring down rain and, of course, the windshield seals on the driver’s side were shot. So water was literally pouring into the roof, onto the sun visor, down onto the steering wheel then directly into my lap! I looked like I peed myself when I finally got to Ikea.
After lugging what felt like 800 lbs of Swedish comfort up the tight stairwell to my 2nd floor walkup (and subsequently breaking every light switch on the way up and the light bulbs in two overhead fixtures), in the end, it wound up costing me $39.99 for the truck, $25 in fuel, $20 in excess mileage (didn’t read that part of the contract), $15 in new light switches, $3 in light bulbs, several years of marriage counseling & therapy sessions, and 1 whole Saturday.
I would like to say I learned my lesson; but, a few years later, I had an unfortunate incident with a new dining room set and a loose latch on the rear tailgate of a Home Depot truck (you can probably fill in the blanks). I can say; however, the Home Depot truck was actually a decent vehicle.
I recall that the truck had something like 9 millions miles on the odometer, couldn’t accelerate above 40mph, got 2 or 3 miles to the gallon, and I had to hold the wheel at 30 degrees off center just to keep the thing tracking straight!
The interior cab engine access “hump” panel didn’t close properly, so not only did it sound like you were riding underneath a freight train, the cab heated up to 400 degrees Kelvin (causing the inside of the windshield to condense & fog like a thick layer of primer). The a/c & defrosters only blew from one vent and had 2 settings: off and mostly off.
I’m also convinced U-Haul had the exhaust pipes rerouted so they fed directly into the cab.
It was pouring down rain and, of course, the windshield seals on the driver’s side were shot. So water was literally pouring into the roof, onto the sun visor, down onto the steering wheel then directly into my lap! I looked like I peed myself when I finally got to Ikea.
After lugging what felt like 800 lbs of Swedish comfort up the tight stairwell to my 2nd floor walkup (and subsequently breaking every light switch on the way up and the light bulbs in two overhead fixtures), in the end, it wound up costing me $39.99 for the truck, $25 in fuel, $20 in excess mileage (didn’t read that part of the contract), $15 in new light switches, $3 in light bulbs, several years of marriage counseling & therapy sessions, and 1 whole Saturday.
I would like to say I learned my lesson; but, a few years later, I had an unfortunate incident with a new dining room set and a loose latch on the rear tailgate of a Home Depot truck (you can probably fill in the blanks). I can say; however, the Home Depot truck was actually a decent vehicle.
07-15-2004, 05:07 PM
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The worst car I've driven was a rental Daewoo Laganza in LA a couple years ago. It's no wonder they are no longer sold in the US. What a miserable...
mushy steering and suspension.....no acceleration....lousy fit and finish. I was constantly cursing the car as I was driving. The only thing it did right was start up every time I turned the key.
I had a chance to drive out on Pac Coast Highway and Topanga Canyon, etc and really really wished I were in the C2. Or even my old MR2. Even my pickup would have been more fun.
mushy steering and suspension.....no acceleration....lousy fit and finish. I was constantly cursing the car as I was driving. The only thing it did right was start up every time I turned the key.
I had a chance to drive out on Pac Coast Highway and Topanga Canyon, etc and really really wished I were in the C2. Or even my old MR2. Even my pickup would have been more fun.
07-15-2004, 05:18 PM
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1964 Volvo 122S sedan purchased for $60 when a college sophomore. The thing came from the factory with British Whitworth (pre WWII standard), Unified (US), and Metric fasteners mixed together. Never could get a wrench to fit anything, and lived in abject fear of breaking one of the studs than had Metric on one end, and Unified threads on the other. I kept a machine shop in business making custom parts.
It rode like a milk cart. A good hard stare caused expensive things (and cheap things for that matter) to break. Sold the car for $325, and later heard that the poor fellow drove it from South Carolina to Maine. He remembers laughing at the sight of a wheel rolling down the hill and passing him. He then recognized that it was from his car. He ran off the road, and struck a tree. A passing farmer offered him $50 for the car if the motor would run. Sold on the spot.
To this day, I cringe at the sight of a Volvo.
It rode like a milk cart. A good hard stare caused expensive things (and cheap things for that matter) to break. Sold the car for $325, and later heard that the poor fellow drove it from South Carolina to Maine. He remembers laughing at the sight of a wheel rolling down the hill and passing him. He then recognized that it was from his car. He ran off the road, and struck a tree. A passing farmer offered him $50 for the car if the motor would run. Sold on the spot.
To this day, I cringe at the sight of a Volvo.
