The worst car(s) you have ever owned/driven?

[WillyNelson]

Ford Ka - really low spec. Doors were made from tinfoil, the engine had no guts and the brakes felt & sounded like they were brillo pads.

Peugeot 106 1.1 - Gutless, uncomfortable, badly handling heap of leaky French tat with the worlds smallest and most badly positioned pedals.

 

[Phate]

The Maestro...it's worth about £25, tops. If you give it any form of beans the throttle pedal sticks and you have to use your foot to pull it back. The amount it rattles is insane, the clutch squeaks, the left front wheel "shakes", the bodywork is less than desirable, the peformance is dangerously slow...it'll do 65 tops. It's hard work to drive, dents when a fly hits it and sounds terrible.

But as a spare car for when mine, sisters, dads or mum's are in the shop or whatever...it's priceless

 

[BeatMaster]

Had a Peugeot 205 1.8 Diesel (non-turbo) as a courtesy car which was an absolute death trap. I drove straight home and straight back, the performance was - severly lacking, the steering was terrible and was very heavy, infact everything about it was utter rubbish!

Couldn't come to terms with my girlfriend's Citroen Saxo, the pedals were too close together and I found the steering way too heavy. Surprisingly, she could park it anywhere and seemed to like it Ah well, she has a Ford Fiesta 1.4 Flame now which is much nicer!

 

[tbz_ck]

Now that the head gasket has gone a SECOND time in 50,000 miles, its definately the wife's Mk2 Fiat Punto. Its a friday afternoon car if ever there was one and I'm so ticked off I could axe it to death at any moment.

 

[Jonny69]

2 cars I didn't expect to see in here without major issues.

How tall are you btw?

5'10 but long legs so I'm probably further away from the steering wheel than other 5'10ers

Nothing wrong with massive steering wheels but with power steering you don't need a large steering wheel to compensate for heavy steering!

 

[Jonny69]

Now that the head gasket has gone a SECOND time in 50,000 miles, its definately the wife's Mk2 Fiat Punto. Its a friday afternoon car if ever there was one and I'm so ticked off I could axe it to death at any moment.

Job not done properly, nothing to do with the car. But I understand your axe pain 100%

 

[MarkDavis]

Fiat Uno.

Horrendous build quality, terrible seating position, no sound insulation, prehistoric engine, bouncy ride quality, and handles like a supermarket trolley with a broken wheel. And the icing on the cake is that it rusts as well

 

[MarkDavis]

Some of the suggestions in this thread are laughable - Ford Focus, Honda S2000, Peugeot 106/Saxo? Peugoet 205?

What are the other cars that these owners/drivers have supposedly been driving then that make the aforementioned cars allegedly so bad? A 2007 Mercedes S-Class? A Rolls Royce Phantom? A Ferrari 430 Scuderia?

 

[peterattheboro]

Some of the suggestions in this thread are laughable - Ford Focus, Honda S2000, Peugeot 106/Saxo? Peugoet 205?

What are the other cars that these owners/drivers have supposedly been driving then that make the aforementioned cars allegedly so bad? A 2007 Mercedes S-Class? A Rolls Royce Phantom? A Ferrari 430 Scuderia?

I am really tempted to put a Ferrari 355 actually

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Can I add my first car, i.e. a not very well Escort mk1 1.1. As it happens it was an ex-panda car. The list of faults included
- no compression on one cylinder (max speed of 65mph if you were mad enough to slipstreaam your friend's Metro)
- What initially appeared to be a broken drivers seat as it rocked when you leant on it. On taking the seat out to replace it, turned out the floor was so rusty that the seat was falling out
- Seriously wayward handling. How else do you get a car with so little power sideways
- Painted black, linked to black "leatherette" seats. Yep, plastic seats. In summer they got so hot that they'd stick to bare skin
- In car entertainment consisted of trying to sing "we all came down to montrose" louder than the engine was screaming with it's 4 speed gearbox
Frankly, it was utter rubbish.

 

[Clarkey]

Citroen C2 1.2, the driving feel was non existant in this car, didn't even feel like I was completely in control. Steering stupidly light with no feel at all, clutch pedal stupidly light with no feel, braking stupidly over-servo'd and again no pedal feel, accelerator had little effect.
I don't know if this is what all modern superminis are like but I hated it so much after half a mile I refused to drive it any more.

Also I've never driven it but can I nominate the bubble shape rover 200 for having the most uncomfortable seating position known to man?

 

[Rilot]

My 4th car; A 1990 Rover 827i Sterling.
Lots of kit
Lots of power
Front wheel drive
Handled like a barge
Biggest turning circle I've ever seen in a car
Went wrong every 2 weeks.

 

[OllyM]

A new VW Passat 2.0 TDI "Sport" I had from Helphire. I get the impression that merlin may agree with me

 

[pitchfork]

My first car, a 2 litre carlton was brilliant bar the crap gearbox, which when I say it was crap. It was truely ****.
The ratios were so stupid on it.

 

[Sanchez]

I seem to have has a string of poor cars but by far the worst was my 1.4 206. It managed to get through 2 gearboxes in 2 years! The car had only done 47k when I sold it too. The drivers seat broke so you couldn't move the seat forward to let anyone in. The central locking was intermittent most of the time and used to stick in cold weather. Not to mention the indicators which used to come on randomly sometimes! You'd think I'd learn my lesson but then I went and got a 205

 

[[TW]Fox]

2006 Vauxhall Meriva 1.4 Life.

Absolutely 100% awful - even the crappest of cars have a redeeming feature, the Corsa SXi 1.2 for example didnt look that ugly. But not the Meriva. It was devoid of any redeeming features whatsoever.

It was horrific to look at
The indicators scared me becuase I genuinelly expected them to come off in my hands when I used them.
Mr Kipling use better plastic in their exceedingly good cake boxes.
It rattled when accelerating.
It was a mini MPV thing with a 1.4 litre engine - I literally had to slot it into 2nd and bury my foot in the carpet just to keep up with traffic joining the A38. It was terrible.
Obviously an MPV didnt handle but this took 'didnt handle' to a whole new level. Every corner I felt I was going to tip over.
The steering was so light I wondered if it was connected to the steering rack using a bowl of yoghurt and a wisk.

It is quite simply the worst car I have ever driven.

Anyone who spends their own money on a car this bad is a lost cause.

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Hehe, gotta love what some of you chaps complain about.
Excluding the already mentioned rubbish Escort, I've also run:
- A year long loan Renault 5 (whilst as Uni) with a seized shocker, certainly handled interestingly
- A self destructing Cavalier mk2. The only question was which bit of trim would fall off next
- An Austin Montego with permanent overheating issue. The only way to prevent it boiling in summer was to run the interior heater on full to help dissipate the heat
- A mk1 VW derby (think of three boxes glued together, then painted yellow). As I couldn't afford the needed replacement petrol tank, my father decided to solder up the hole. The problem was that in burning off the unburnt fuel, it filled the tank with rubbish, meaning that I had to be seriously adept at stripping down the carb at the side of the road so that I could blow out the fuel jet.

 

[nicRob]

On your speedo ,perhaps, certainly not in real terms.

Seen 106 on gps

Back on topic - worst thing I've ever driven is a late 90s Nissan Cabstar pickup. Full acceleration from a standstill results in a leisurely take-off...feels slower when empty then a 2001 Cabstar loaded with 1.5 tons in the back

 

[[TW]Fox]

Some of the suggestions in this thread are laughable - Ford Focus, Honda S2000, Peugeot 106/Saxo? Peugoet 205?

What are the other cars that these owners/drivers have supposedly been driving then that make the aforementioned cars allegedly so bad? A 2007 Mercedes S-Class? A Rolls Royce Phantom? A Ferrari 430 Scuderia?

I agree to a point but you have to remember that Will Gill, the S2000 hater, actually DOES fall into said bracket - he's owned everything you can think of and currently has both a 911 997 and a Cayenne Turbo and a Ferrari 360 on 'whenever you want' loan.

Therefore he can say the S2000 is the worst car he's ever owned.

Johnny69 though can get a big rolleyes for his idea that the Focus is the worst car he's ever driven when you look at some of the crap he's owned.

 

[peterattheboro]

2006 Vauxhall Meriva 1.4 Life.

Absolutely 100% awful - even the crappest of cars have a redeeming feature, the Corsa SXi 1.2 for example didnt look that ugly. But not the Meriva. It was devoid of any redeeming features whatsoever.

It was horrific to look at
The indicators scared me becuase I genuinelly expected them to come off in my hands when I used them.
Mr Kipling use better plastic in their exceedingly good cake boxes.
It rattled when accelerating.
It was a mini MPV thing with a 1.4 litre engine - I literally had to slot it into 2nd and bury my foot in the carpet just to keep up with traffic joining the A38. It was terrible.
Obviously an MPV didnt handle but this took 'didnt handle' to a whole new level. Every corner I felt I was going to tip over.
The steering was so light I wondered if it was connected to the steering rack using a bowl of yoghurt and a wisk.

It is quite simply the worst car I have ever driven.

Anyone who spends their own money on a car this bad is a lost cause.

Did that have a coin catcher in the door?

I was in my mates son's Corsa the other day and lost a load of coinage down the side of the seat. Any other car i'd have lost that money forever but not in the Corsa! Every penny was in the tray

Best idea Vauxhall have come up with to be honest and just wondering if all last Vauxhalls that that feature?