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Why? Unless you are a blinkered VW fanboy who thinks everything 25 years old must be awesome, its crap.
The worst car(s) you have ever owned/driven?
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Why? Unless you are a blinkered VW fanboy who thinks everything 25 years old must be awesome, its crap.
Worst car I've owned would be the Hyundai Pony by default really. I do really miss that motor though 
Worst one I've driven was an M plate Escort I had as a loan car. Clutch so stuffed you had to feather the throttle to stop it slipping like crazy, felt like the back end was only very lightly tacked on to the front and at 70 it felt like it was ready to fire me off into the barrier at any moment.
Worst one I've driven was an M plate Escort I had as a loan car. Clutch so stuffed you had to feather the throttle to stop it slipping like crazy, felt like the back end was only very lightly tacked on to the front and at 70 it felt like it was ready to fire me off into the barrier at any moment.
I got you all beat. I had no option as my GF at the time wanted me to get a car instead of a bike, so...
A Robin Reliant 3 wheeler. Needed a new core plug the day after I got it. first three months saw a new chassis and the steering seized up. Bits fell off it if you did more than 50.
I had no brakes but it didn't matter because I couldn't go fast enough to damage/hurt anything. I got quite good at driving it on two wheels for a few hundred yards.
A mate once picked up the front end and pointed me the wrong way in a one way street for a laugh, I then had to explain it to a cop that turned up just after. I was breathalysed once a week for a while, presumably because I was driving it.
It was a sort of an orange colour.
A Robin Reliant 3 wheeler. Needed a new core plug the day after I got it. first three months saw a new chassis and the steering seized up. Bits fell off it if you did more than 50.
I had no brakes but it didn't matter because I couldn't go fast enough to damage/hurt anything. I got quite good at driving it on two wheels for a few hundred yards.
A mate once picked up the front end and pointed me the wrong way in a one way street for a laugh, I then had to explain it to a cop that turned up just after. I was breathalysed once a week for a while, presumably because I was driving it.
It was a sort of an orange colour.
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Have had about 10 cars the worst by far was a 16rxe clio reasons being;
1 it was very slow for a small 1.6 more like a 1.2 -1.4
2 higher tax band and insurance with no performance
3 only 27 miles per gallon
4 something broke/failed every week
5 cost me near 3 k in repairs in first year before I got rid
will never buy french crap again !
1 it was very slow for a small 1.6 more like a 1.2 -1.4
2 higher tax band and insurance with no performance
3 only 27 miles per gallon
4 something broke/failed every week
5 cost me near 3 k in repairs in first year before I got rid
will never buy french crap again !
currently driving an 07 plate 1.2 corsa SXI courtesy car and it is absolutely dire. Throttle response is pathetic, steering is overly sensitive, chassis is rubbish, gearbox is crap, interior is plasticy and badly designed... great car
Like the Op mine is a Fiesta Pop Plus.. but mine was a 1981 example of this truly awful car!..
Back in 1993 Coming home from College one day I stopped at the Robin Hood Roundabout (Newbury/A34) and when the Van in front of me pulled away I thought "Hmm His exhaust fumes are still coming over my bonnet!, hows that possible!?!".
Then the Electrics went mental and everything went in time with the indicators!. I got out and 'Stupidly' opened the bonnet and nearly got my eyebrows singed off by the flames!!. Needless to say it was written off (insured for £1600 only cost me £800
) which I used to fund my First Mini (Very cool car!.. I want another one but the wife wont let me!!).
Basically Ford in their ultimate wisdom had designed a 'Fire Bug' of a car (to quote a Fire-fighter friend of mine who's seen loads of these in his career).
Instead of what's normal in putting the Dizzy on the front and the Carb on the back of the Engine Block, They put em both on the back... Dizzy directly beneath the Carb!... One Drop of Petrol (Crap Paper Gaskets in the Carb) on 11,000Volts hence Fire!!!...
Put me off Ford's for Life (except for classic 60's - Stangs, Lotus Tinas etc..)!!!... to me Their like any other four letter word!... a Sware Word!!..
Back in 1993 Coming home from College one day I stopped at the Robin Hood Roundabout (Newbury/A34) and when the Van in front of me pulled away I thought "Hmm His exhaust fumes are still coming over my bonnet!, hows that possible!?!".
Then the Electrics went mental and everything went in time with the indicators!. I got out and 'Stupidly' opened the bonnet and nearly got my eyebrows singed off by the flames!!. Needless to say it was written off (insured for £1600 only cost me £800
) which I used to fund my First Mini (Very cool car!.. I want another one but the wife wont let me!!).Basically Ford in their ultimate wisdom had designed a 'Fire Bug' of a car (to quote a Fire-fighter friend of mine who's seen loads of these in his career).
Instead of what's normal in putting the Dizzy on the front and the Carb on the back of the Engine Block, They put em both on the back... Dizzy directly beneath the Carb!... One Drop of Petrol (Crap Paper Gaskets in the Carb) on 11,000Volts hence Fire!!!...
Put me off Ford's for Life (except for classic 60's - Stangs, Lotus Tinas etc..)!!!... to me Their like any other four letter word!... a Sware Word!!..