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[Lizzie_Zoom]

Actually no, that car was awesome, especially in snow

That Volvo...was utterly awful.  How can a 2.85 V6 be so bland?  And the cornering...

Wow!!   And it did not rust away?? :-/ :-/

[GuzziHero]

Umm, well, yes it did actually

My dad repaired the passenger floor pan out of coke cans which, he said, were thicker than the original steel!

I passed my test in that car, in 1996, and while I was learning I got shunted up the arse by a Sierra Ghia.  Wrote the front of his car off, all it did on the Viva was pop a fender bolt

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Umm, well, yes it did actually

My dad repaired the passenger floor pan out of coke cans which, he said, were thicker than the original steel!

I passed my test in that car, in 1996, and while I was learning I got shunted up the arse by a Sierra Ghia.  Wrote the front of his car off, all it did on the Viva was pop a fender bolt

Well you did very well to keep a 20 year old Viva going!!   A hell of a lot "died" within 5 years!!

[Kevin Wood]

Actually no, that car was awesome, especially in snow

That Volvo...was utterly awful.  How can a 2.85 V6 be so bland?  And the cornering...

That PRV V6 is useful only as an anchor.

Kevin

[waspy]

Has to be a Ford Orion diesel & a MKII Ford Escort. Do you see a pattern forming.
The Orion was uncomfortable & wouldn't pull you outa bed. The Escort was just crap in every way

[stuthespread]

white austin allegro which the previous owner had painted with gloss(with a brush)metro gta,kept destroying wheel bearings,only 6 months old when we got it,went back quite quickly though,rover 820 fastback,had it 2 weeks and it died a death on me,need i go on........

[spacekid2009]

I'm sorry, i have to defend the mk2 escort, they were the saxo of our day, you could do a lot to them to make them sound/look cool, but best of all, RS2000 and RS Mexico, bullet proof rwd rally cars, great entertainment. brilliant.

[ferrari jason]

I agree with you about the MK II escort i grew up with them I had a 1.3 pop to start with a couple of 1.6 sports i mexico and eventually bought a genuine T reg RS 2000 it was my pride and joy till i stuck it on its lid  At the time i was working for my uncle as a mechanic so i built a flat front MK II with a 2.1 pinto twin choke webers etc it was the boy racer car of its day
The worst car i had was VIVA bought it for £50 just after passing my test i worked hard to save up to buy a car with metal bodywork and not rust 

[Hannah Judes Dad]

Fiat 131 mirafiori rust bucket,1987 1.3 belmont(it was my mums car before I had it,also the first car I did a ton in)gutless to say the least.Nissan prairie bag of bolts.Not an inspiring collection of dross is it.

[MickAP]

Ho another I didn't mention earlier was the Renault 21.
It needed a new steering rack shortly after I bought it 3 years old, at a cost of £600. Glad that was paid on a warranty I bought with the car.
After that it just kept falling apart
Door handles falling off
Handbrake lever snapped
Clutch pedal snapped
Drivers seat frame collapsed.
Loads of interior trim parts falling off.
Rear wheel bearing got that hot smoke was pouring from the wheel.
Engine and gearbox was unbreakable, and went on and on. It was just everything around them kept falling apart.

Mick

[tigers_gonads]

this one 

[alunonhisown]

1st Car I ever owned was an Austin Allegro, without the 'QUARTIC ' steering wheel. Cost me £250
Had that about two months and put in part ex for a .......
.......BRAND SPANKING SHINY NEW .....
Lada Samara,(Got £650 part ex) and kept the Samara for five years and sold it to those people who came round at the time buying up old Lada's, sold it to them for £740, with a siezed gearbox.
I was well chuffed, was on my drive for ages.

[Olympia5776]

Citroen Xantia ........................
Brand new in '93. When it was delivered I found my head actually touched the headlining eventually found out that the car I test drove had no sunroof which dropped the headlining another 2 to 3 inches making it the most uncomfortable car I have ever had to drive. Suspension failed four or five  times resulting in it driving like a rubber bouncy ball, it caught fire once behind the dash and when an elderly gentleman ran up to me with a fire extinguisher I stopped him and told him to " let the ******* burn " ( it didn't unfortunatley ) .
Twice it ran into cars after being parked and handbrake applied ,turned out the hanbrake discs on front wheels cooled and contracted after a while causing the hanbrake to let go.The front pads screemed like a banshee from new to disposal and Citroen couldn't rectify it.
It was a company car and I ended up doing over 90K miles in it and can honestly say I despised every one of them.

[mars]

Reliability wise it has to be a 1989 F reg Peugot 205 1.9 Gti which I owned for 6 months in 1999. Got fed up of spending money on it on an almost weekly basis, the bodywork was nice though

[sparten]

fast becoming my omega  it can only get better i keep telling myself