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Re: Cars Again - What's the worst car you have ever owned.
« Reply #30 on: 25 April 2016, 22:52:59 »

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.
I appreciate that the Zaf is a might heavier, but the Focus is averaging that and it's petrol :o
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« Reply #31 on: 25 April 2016, 22:59:13 »

Renault 25.  Biggest POS ever built.
I would be kind and describe my £100 poo brown Monaco as quirky... it was actually horrible and bought pretty much straight out of a council pound, but passed it's MoT first time with no advisories and never failed to get me to work, so can't have been that bad. The icing was getting £500 for it when it got written off by a Maestro.

A shed? Absofluckinglutely... Worst car ever owned? Not even close ;)
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Re: Cars Again - What's the worst car you have ever owned.
« Reply #32 on: 25 April 2016, 23:42:18 »

Morris shItal 1.7 HL Estate.

Took me years of driving a decent car before I stopped clenching my buttocks before each bend.
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« Reply #33 on: 25 April 2016, 23:57:02 »

Morris shItal 1.7 HL Estate.

Took me years of driving a decent car before I stopped clenching my buttocks before each bend.

My dad had the 1.7HL Saloon from new. If you did a wheel spin away from a junction the back end used to bounce.  ;D 
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Re: Cars Again - What's the worst car you have ever owned.
« Reply #34 on: 26 April 2016, 00:21:43 »

The current Vx Omega 3.0 estate in boring silver...

Loud exhaust
half dead torque converter (which in an AR35 is shit to start off with)
not even remotely fast
utterly flat below 5krpm
25mpg
drivers door won't open without two cranks of the handle from inside, or leaning on the door whilst unlocking from outside
rear suspension knocks
ride quality is piss poor on anything other than a new motorway
diff whines
heated seats don't work
climate control in any facelift is a joke... all or nothing. usually all.
brakes are wooden
headlights are less use than a candle in a jam jar



but then at £190 I guess that's to be expected.  ::)
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« Reply #35 on: 26 April 2016, 08:38:37 »

Fiat Strada for us......
Biggest heap of sh*t we have owned. Due to a deal at a local garage with minimum px, I got back the full purchase price, although it was held together by rust.
 Bought it for £750, sold it for £750.........for a Daihatsu Charade with 17000 miles on the clock !!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #36 on: 26 April 2016, 10:02:52 »

Worst car I've owned should have been one of the best,Toyota Camry 2.0 Turbo D,really comfy and brilliant on fuel although not very quick.started to smoke a little if left idling which turned out to be the turbo,stuck a (Bloody expensive)new one on and a month later the cylinder head cracked which cost a small fortune to fix,got shot of it soon after.Sad thing was I traded a lovely Rover sterling for it to save some money on fuel ::) :'( :'(
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Re: Cars Again - What's the worst car you have ever owned.
« Reply #37 on: 26 April 2016, 10:38:13 »

Fiat Strada for us......
Biggest heap of sh*t we have owned. Due to a deal at a local garage with minimum px, I got back the full purchase price, although it was held together by rust.
 Bought it for £750, sold it for £750.........for a Daihatsu Charade with 17000 miles on the clock !!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

Colleague of mine had a Strada Abarth. Twin Weber 45 DCOEs on a twin cam and it went quite well, IIRC. 8)

I wonder if he's given into the challenge of keeping it rust-free yet. On a hot day it used to sit in the works car park dripping Waxoyl from every orifice!
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Re: Cars Again - What's the worst car you have ever owned.
« Reply #38 on: 26 April 2016, 12:56:56 »

Which has cost the most. Suitable for masochists.  :y

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« Reply #39 on: 26 April 2016, 13:52:03 »

Several years ago I had a company car, from new, for my field service role - a Fiat Mirafiore estate!
An incredibly poor design wth very limited load space, mostly taken up by suspension parts, lousy fuel consumption and dead uncomfortable: suspension was basically the polyurethane cushions in the seats!

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Re: Cars Again - What's the worst car you have ever owned.
« Reply #40 on: 26 April 2016, 13:57:58 »

Morris shItal 1.7 HL Estate.

Took me years of driving a decent car before I stopped clenching my buttocks before each bend.

Having driven a Marina and an Alfasud  on the same day I can say that one handled better than the other.

One was a delight to drive, the other was a sack of shit. :) 
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« Reply #41 on: 26 April 2016, 14:18:57 »

Worst for me has got to be a 1976 mk3 Corrina 2000e estate looked great when I bought it , but should have realised the new shiny paintwork was hiding loads of rust.
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Re: Cars Again - What's the worst car you have ever owned.
« Reply #42 on: 26 April 2016, 14:30:39 »

Which has cost the most. Suitable for masochists.  :y



Love these, although Metallic Prosthetic-Limb Beige wouldn't be my first choice of colour!  ;D

Are these the ones with a dash that looks like it came from 2001 A Space Odyssey?
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Re: Cars Again - What's the worst car you have ever owned.
« Reply #43 on: 26 April 2016, 14:30:58 »

Morris shItal 1.7 HL Estate.

Took me years of driving a decent car before I stopped clenching my buttocks before each bend.

Having driven a Marina and an Alfasud  on the same day I can say that one handled better than the other.

One was a delight to drive, the other was a sack of shit. :)

One was a delight to drive, but the windscreen wipers went bezerk every time I pressed the brake pedalthe other was a sack of shit. :)

FTFY. :y
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Re: Cars Again - What's the worst car you have ever owned.
« Reply #44 on: 26 April 2016, 14:56:16 »

Mk5 Cortina . Forget how many times it would not start from cold , very similar to the wretched Pug 106 built from cheese  :( Most reliable was the Carlton 1.8 saloon  :)
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