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[Mr Skrunts]

Chrysler Alpine, 1.4, slow, white, exspenive parts and FWD 

[05omegav6]

Tough call between a '55 1.9 Cdti Vectra C estate and a new '07 Seat Altea XL... Both have seen me stranded...

Have had a handful of shitty Granadas, but none of them ever needed abandoning, even the £50 MoT free sieve

[Viral_Jim]

Technically I suppose it would have to be my 1989 MK4 Ford Escort 3 door estate.

In every measurable way a dreadful car, even down to only having a 4 speed manual box. Shortly before the tin worm claimed her for the final time, she was using about 1 pint of oil every 100miles  .

However she represented freedom to me after passing my test and I have some of the most enduring and happy memories of my late teens/early 20's in that car. Including a run to Le Mans 5-up, in the sweltering summer heat with the heater on full blast to try and cool the engine! Great days 

[zirk]

Granada 3.0 Ghia Coupe, Saluki Bronze with matching poo colour beige vinyl roof, the car was a death trap, bought it in my youth at the Auctions, 150 quid.

The metal Sunroof completely ejected itself at 70mph, the passenger window exploded of its own accord, anything over 50mph and the ATF would piss all over the exhaust manifold leaving a cool 007 smoke screen behind it, the Autobox would jump out of drive, you had to start the thing in neutral then rev the living daylight out of it and quickly jam into Drive otherwise it would stall and refuse to stat again, the brakes would just total lock up at point if going over a bumpy road, once a week I would have to remove the starter motor and re tighten the torque plate bolts to stop them from rattling.

I became a nervous wreck just owning the car and all my mates refused to get in it, it was jinked, cost me a fortune to run and gave me nothing but bad luck since buying the thing, I eventually sold to a Granada Nut, only to find the Council had removed it the day before he came to pick it up.

Probably worth a shit load of money now.

Stock picture, not the actual car.

[pauls]

White morris marina ..held together with news paper and filler. Also a whiteish rover 216 where the gearbox fell out while driving down the bypass at esher.

[Nick W]

I'd like to say it was the utterly knackered Astra van, but it would have to be this heap:





I've owned  a lot Capris, and this was the worst. Ignore the shiny paint, as the bits underneath it were rotten, and mechanically it was worse than the Astra. Not a good use of £300

[Marks DTM Calib]

White morris marina ..held together with news paper and filler. Also a whiteish rover 216 where the gearbox fell out while driving down the bypass at esher.

I had that happen in a 2.0 Monte-no-go at 70 on the M6 once.

My worst was a 950 Fiesta pop which had nothing on it, required the valve clearances setting once a fortnight, leaked every fluid that should have been in, out and every fluid that should have been out, in.

Cracked the cylinder head whilst heading down the bank towards Leeds doing 70 and then nursed it to Newcastle and back to Stafford whilst is consumed more fluids than George Best

[Crazycarzowner]

For me it must be an '00 plate silver Vauxhall Vectra 2.0 DTI. Bloody awful in every respect.

Door handle fell off
Gear knob came out of box
Rear wheel collapsed
Leaked water into the passenger compartment (never found out where from)
MAF's went x2
Constantly refused to start after a long run
Gutless performance
Chucked more smoke out than a steam locomotive


Sold it privately and was relieved to get shut, even managed to only loose about £50 when it went but that never accounted for all the money I spent repairing the darn thing!

Up to quite recently I used to see it in Warrington plated as a taxi 

[STEMO]

Omega.

[TheBoy]

Hmmm.

Probably the Zafira Elegance 2.0DTi, though the frekkin thing keeps going. Abysmal MPG aside (30mpg average), it's a cheap runabout...   ...but I'm now having to remember to park it downhill

Nova 1.2LS is also close runner, again, just wouldn't break.

[tigers_gonads]

Orion 1.6i ghia

Sack of shite that would never piggin start 
Spend break knows on trying to understand why 
The last straw was when I got burnt off at some traffic lights by my old man in a 1700cc Volvo 340 GL 

It went within the week and I bought a Rover 420 GSI 

[BazaJT]

That would have to be Triumph Herald closely followed by VW Scirroco MK1

[TheBoy]

Orion 1.6i ghia

Sack of shite that would never piggin start 
Spend break knows on trying to understand why 
The last straw was when I got burnt off at some traffic lights by my old man in a 1700cc Volvo 340 GL 

It went within the week and I bought a Rover 420 GSI 

Hmmm, the GSi wasn't quick off the line if you overcooked the power

I once lost to a 2CV in my Astra GTE through attempting to use any amount of power

[pscocoa]

Austin 2200 landcrab M reg 1973.

[tigers_gonads]

Orion 1.6i ghia

Sack of shite that would never piggin start 
Spend break knows on trying to understand why 
The last straw was when I got burnt off at some traffic lights by my old man in a 1700cc Volvo 340 GL 

It went within the week and I bought a Rover 420 GSI 

Hmmm, the GSi wasn't quick off the line if you overcooked the power

I once lost to a 2CV in my Astra GTE through attempting to use any amount of power

Tell me about it   
This one came with 185 / 70 / 14 steel wheels on