Worst car ever made ?

snipey

Yeti not a great looking car

corks finest

Frynge wrote: »

Nope. Fiat multipla.

Talbot horizon

corks finest

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Renault 11.

Anyone who's ever had one will agree.I went through three engines before finally coming to my senses and turning japanese.

Yep,up there alright, broke 3 clutch cables,head gasket,numerous electrical problems

corks finest

Wibbs wrote: »

Aye FS, but I'll see your vintage eyesore and raise you the Skoda Roomster



Currently available and pretty well reviewed. Some even praise the "style" Clearly people with dark glasses, white sticks and labradors. There isn't a single line on that car that matches another. It looks like a cut and shut containing three different already ugly cars. Joke is the rest of the range look OK. Nothing high style or anything, but presentable looking autos. The Roomster(even the bloody name…) is pure eye vomit IMH and it beggars belief someone would walk across a forecourt and purposely pay money for such a thing. *shudder*

+1 and QFT. The Datsuns were cheap, reliable and good on petrol, but my god you could just about see them rusting away with the naked eye.

Roomster is an ugly bitch alright,, but as my buddy says,,,even the ugly ones need love

Red Kev

From growing up I remember the Fiat 128 was bad, very unreliable, Ritmo was probably worse.

Worst by a long shot ws a Vauxhall Viva, utter piece of muck, never started.

Agree that most FSO's were dire, Ladas weren't very good, but they were a lot better. Drove a couple of Zastava's and Yugo's that were awful too.

...And Justice

Petrol A4 2.0 B6 model, biggest pile of junk I ever bought. It suffered from oil drinking syndrome and blowing coil packs continuously, all the while I was being assured by Audi that this is normal behavior for a car with 65k on the clock, and that light bulbs blowing, coil packs blowing and oil drinking is normal in all car models.

Further research online confirmed I wasn't the only one, the A6 2.0 suffered the same fate, now I know why the PD 1.9TDI was a couple of grand dearer.

Ah well rant over, went Japanese after that experience.

pcardin

From my personal experience the worst car ever was Fiat Tipo. After that Range Rover Sport. Avoid avoid!!!

superfish

worst car ive ever owned, Vauxhall astra 2005 1.7cdti had a new issue every week cost me 2 grand in repairs at one point got new clutch and master cylinder fitted and the following week the new master cylinder failed 10 miles from home after a busy day at work and left me stranded so **** you Vauxhall astra worst car ever lol

Yakuza

My old man had a beige / dull-as-ditchwater Vauxhall Viva back in the mid 70s. What a piece of crap.
Still, he followed it up with a canary yellow Renault 4. Frying pan into fire? I remember being delighted when in 1981 he bought a Vauxhall Astra (badged as Vauxhall, was a grey market import as the Kadett was on sale here at the time) that had *gasp* an MW/LW radio in it. Oh the joys.

Premium (Porsche, BMW, Audi and Merc) and Supercar marques aside, the 70's is not a decade that exactly shines as a beacon of car design taste.

Cee-Jay-Cee

ishotjr2 wrote: »

Agree 100%, Renault 11, no car has ever made me want to find the team who designed it and express my contempt for their efforts in various mediums.
!

That car wasn't designed by a team, it was designed by the janitor who happened to be partially blind, paralysed down once side and drunk at the time. I had the god awful misfortune of driving/using one for a month many years ago, it was a horrible ugly red thing and no two panels matched or lined up properly. The steering was vague at best and the gear shift was truely horrible, you basically took a guess at what gear you were in as it was so loose and sloppy. I stalled it regularly as it'd be in 3rd instead of 1st gear and reverse went missing regularly. I was emotionally scarred for months after my experience.

Zubeneschamali

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

The steering was vague at best and the gear shift was truely horrible, you basically took a guess at what gear you were in as it was so loose and sloppy.

My brother had a Renault 9 ("Car of the Year!") and said the gearshift was like stirring porridge.

Falcon L

Worst drive was in an Austin J series van. I know it's not a car but I feel It deserves a mention, followed closely by the Sherpa diesel. The Austin had no suspension worth mentioning, same for brakes. The Sherpa spent the whole time above 20mph screaming for a 5th gear.

Worst car I ever drove was a Morris Marina.

I owned a Vauxhall Viva back in the 70s. It was a cracker. I suppose the fact that it was a SL90 model made all the difference.

I've driven a shedload of renty cars also. Worst was a Citroen Pluriel C3 Auto. Best was a F360, but that's another story.

Yakuza

Yakuza wrote: »

My old man had a beige / dull-as-ditchwater Vauxhall Viva back in the mid 70s.

Falcon L wrote: »

I owned a Vauxhall Viva back in the 70s. It was a cracker. I suppose the fact that it was a SL90 model made all the difference.

I don't recall what exact spec / trim level it was, but knowing my dad I'm assuming his was was a poverty spec base model. I do know he only kept it for 6 months as it "drank the juice" and he had starter motor troubles, one door kept locking shut etc. Maybe he just had a lemon.

my3cents

Falcon L wrote: »

Worst drive was in an Austin J series van. I know it's not a car but I feel It deserves a mention, followed closely by the Sherpa diesel. The Austin had no suspension worth mentioning, same for brakes. The Sherpa spent the whole time above 20mph screaming for a 5th gear.

Worst car I ever drove was a Morris Marina.

I owned a Vauxhall Viva back in the 70s. It was a cracker. I suppose the fact that it was a SL90 model made all the difference.

I've driven a shedload of renty cars also. Worst was a Citroen Pluriel C3 Auto. Best was a F360, but that's another story.

OMG I'd nearly forgotten the Sherpa Diesel vans, worked with a company that had about a dozen of them on the road all from new and not one made it beyond 60k without needing new engine. A couple didn't get far beyond 30k. Company policy was that was oil and water was checked daily and I know it was yet every time an engine blew we'd be told it was down to lack of user maintenance and lack of oil and water!

Thinkingaboutit

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

I'm surprised - maybe I'm just tf old - that no one has mentioned

Austin All Aggro
Hillman Avenger
Austin Princess (from the 70s not so much the original beasts)
In fact anything British Leyland made tbh.

Datsun Sunny
When the Jap cars first started to be bought in any numbers they were awful.

The Avenger was fine. The bottom of its door skins didn't rot away nor did the heater make a funny (not in a haha sense) noise (I'm looking at you Fiat Miafiore).

00so

Alfa 156

KrakityJones

I'd have to throw an odd one in as a contender, whatever about style, reliability etc you can't get worse than a car where they only made 10 before ceasing production and throwing the unused parts into a lake...

Ireland's own Shamrock : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamrock_(car)

Buona Fortuna

KrakityJones wrote: »

I'd have to throw an odd one in as a contender, whatever about style, reliability etc you can't get worse than a car where they only made 10 before ceasing production and throwing the unused parts into a lake...

Ireland's own Shamrock : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamrock_(car)

Wow. Gotta wonder about anyone trying to sell an open top here.

colm_mcm

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Wow. Gotta wonder about anyone trying to sell an open top here.

It was for the (Irish)-American market.

Seweryn

Some cars were designed not to be great in the first place, but a bad car... here is an example...

Arthur Daley

4 of the cars mentionned so far have won european car of the year.

Chrysler horizon 1979
Renault 9 1982
Fiat tipo 1989
Alfa 156 1998

km991148

its hard to compare from different generations - but for a modern car I hate the Renault Capture - way way worse than the Nissan Juke mentioned earlier - got one on hire in the UK and had to do a couple of hundred boring motorway mile with the car maxed out at 75mph.. ugly weird boring muck!

Nekarsulm

I suppose beauty is subjective, but the Talbot Matra Ranchero was an odd thing....

cml387

Nekarsulm wrote: »

I suppose beauty is subjective, but the Talbot Matra Ranchero was an odd thing....

Maybe ahead of it's time. A fake off-roader like the Qashqai.

/Pedant/ It's Rancho /Pedant/

colm_mcm

Land Rover ripped off the rancho with the discovery

Nekarsulm

cml387 wrote: »

/Pedant/ It's Rancho /Pedant/

Throws hissey fit, toys out of the pram etc. then tries to blame predictive text on the phone.....:D

stimpson

Six pages in and no mention of the Nissan Tiida. The missus had a brand new one as a loaner for a couple of days. I took it to the end of the road and back out of curiosity. My 20 year old Honda felt better put together. Awful, awful car.

delahuntv

Hillman Hunter

Learnt to drive in one - even a 12 year old datsun cherry (1st car) was such a luxury my dad borrowed off me instead of driving the HH.

Sam Russell

Renault 20 - everything started dropping off or breaking. It was so bad, it went back to the dealer I bought it from. Horrible to drive - like a barge.

Opel Vectra - overtaken by the back wheel while I was driving out to the local Opel dealer to find out what the noise was coming from the back end.

Ford Escort Mk 1, on which the odometer stopped recording the miles at 17,000 - was supposed to be from new (but was obviously clocked). It was 1100cc which did 9 mpg when driven very hard but over 50 mpg when driven gently. Rusted quite badly.

Agree the Renault Captur is crap - gutless - dangerously so.

Best car was a MG Midget - great fun, very taught high geared steering, with plenty of poke.

wotswattage

colm_mcm wrote: »

Land Rover ripped off the rancho with the discovery

Skoda certainly did with the Yeti!
30 Years apart

Lofty123

stimpson wrote: »

Six pages in and no mention of the Nissan Tiida. The missus had a brand new one as a loaner for a couple of days. I took it to the end of the road and back out of curiosity. My 20 year old Honda felt better put together. Awful, awful car.

Nissan Tino also deserves a mention, looks awful and drives even worse! worst driving position I have ever encountered. Needless to say the test drive didn't last long :eek:

colm_mcm

No way! They were a grand oul yoke to go!

Lofty123

colm_mcm wrote: »

No way! They were a grand oul yoke to go!

everything about cars is subjective I suppose...

but god I hated that thing!

colm_mcm

They're not the easiest on the eye, to be sure.
Uncle has one for years and it's been good to him.

kilianmanning

Golf mk3 or vento deserve a shout in here, terrible dirtboxes altogether.

AMGer

kilianmanning wrote: »

Golf mk3

or mk4, especially the GTI

visual

Renault laguna mkII 1.9 CRDI
It is worse built car that started out with everything going for it.
5 star NCAP good economic and nice drive but it was built from cheese with a sell by date

JohnBoy26

stimpson wrote: »

Six pages in and no mention of the Nissan Tiida. The missus had a brand new one as a loaner for a couple of days. I took it to the end of the road and back out of curiosity. My 20 year old Honda felt better put together. Awful, awful car.

The tiida is not as bad as the car it replaced tbh.

JohnBoy26

Many older cars from the 70's & 80's were terrible but for a modern-ish car the Corsa b and c gets my vote.

sunnysoutheast

Was it the Chevy Corvair that had the famous "tuck under" rear wheel, plus it was rear-engined. Genius.

My uncle had an Austin Princess as a company car. Only lasted about 4000 miles before the gearbox fell to bits on the motorway and the engine revved itself to destruction.

The One Doctor

Alfa 156. Went for a Prius after that, never looked back.

alan partridge aha

kilianmanning wrote: »

Golf mk3 or vento deserve a shout in here, terrible dirtboxes altogether.

WTF I had a 1.9 diesel vento, very well screwed together, easy on fuel and nice to drive then. It is 20 years ago after all.

foggy_lad

datsun 120Y was the worst pile of scrap ever.

corsav6

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

Many older cars from the 70's & 80's were terrible but for a modern-ish car the Corsa b and c gets my vote.

The Corsa b was a solid little car, I abused one for 7 years and hit a few objects but it kept going. Still in use as a spare car in the family now.

Now the Corsa c, well the less said about that the better I think.

AMKC

crasy dash wrote: »

Let's not forget the Renault avantime bit of a flop is an understatement.

Actually the Avantime was not a bad car it was just ahead of its time. If Renault made that now id say it would do well. People just did not get it at the time.

kyote00

In a Prius, there was never anything behind you to look back at ....:P

The One Doctor wrote: »

Alfa 156. Went for a Prius after that, never looked back.

JohnBoy26

corsav6 wrote: »

The Corsa b was a solid little car, I abused one for 7 years and hit a few objects but it kept going. Still in use as a spare car in the family now.

Now the Corsa c, well the less said about that the better I think.

They were both very poor tbh. The corsa b with the 1.0 was dreadful.

JohnBoy26

alan partridge aha wrote: »

WTF I had a 1.9 diesel vento, very well screwed together, easy on fuel and nice to drive then. It is 20 years ago after all.

Definatly not the worst cars. they rusted in the sills and around the bodywork. They were not the nicest to drive either but they were solid mechanically. The petrol engines were reliable in this model. Other cars of the time, particularly the Japanese offerings done things much better though. Not really a massive step up from the mk2 and not nearly as nice either imo.

corsav6

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

They were both very poor tbh. The corsa b with the 1.0 was dreadful.

Most cars with a 1.0l engine are dreadful tbh. We had the 1.2l older Opel engine in our Corsa, 8 valve and bulletproof, horrid abuse I gave it.

I think the worst car ever should include the full range and not 1 specific engine variant, so your Corsa c suggestion is valid .

JohnBoy26

corsav6 wrote: »

Most cars with a 1.0l engine are dreadful tbh. We had the 1.2l older Opel engine in our Corsa, 8 valve and bulletproof, horrid abuse I gave it.

I think the worst car ever should include the full range and not 1 specific engine variant, so your Corsa c suggestion is valid .

Nah there are many good 1.0 cars out there. The corsa of that era ain't one of them. The 1.2 is a much better engine but those cars are still horrible.