Worst car you ever bought

[Icy Gull]

Someone in work STILL has a DAF 66, he says its a classic but the zero restoration work he's done on it makes us think he's just a nutter.

They even have an owners club, I think I'd wear a balaclava if I had to drive one around these days

DAF Owners Club - the UK's leading source of info re DAF Cars

 

[franks brother]

I once bought my wife a Daf 33 which was driven by a rubber belt ( no really), absolute heap of shite and my wife has STILL not forgiven me for buying her a car that made a 2cv seem fast and luxurious


same colour too

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you could (if you had the bottle) Drive them at 70 mph in reverse

 

[dougdeep]

A Renault Five. I gave it away in the end.

 

[jakarta]

Have driven some right old rubbish over the years due to my Dad being a British Leyland & then Mazda dealer & me having first dibs at cheap part exchange motors but to my mind its hard to look past the Fiat Strada - slow, ugly, lousy electrics, mechanically dubious and most of all the definitive Italian Rustbucket.

Supposedly 'built by robots' if you an remember the TV advert - well they must have used rusty spanners to put the buggers together - every single panel on my 3 year old car was bubbling away!

Most Italian cars of that era were similar but to memory Fiats were the worst. I drove some horrible part/ex heaps to auction, literally with holes in the floor.

Austin Allegros were fun as well, I had two lose wheels on me! In fact almost all British Leyland cars were utter shite, I remember my Dad had three full time mechanics doing nothing but warranty work, especially on Morris Marinas.

Most cars are functional if a bit bland today- young drivers have no idea what heaps of crap manuacturers got away with back the 70's and 80's.....

 

[Icy Gull]

Most Italian cars of that era were similar but to memory Fiats were the worst. I drove some horrible part/ex heaps to auction, literally with holes in the floor.

.....

Lancia Beta's engines dropped out didn't they, I reckon that's worse

 

[Barrow Boy]

Austin Maestro - complete and utter pile of pants

 

[dougdeep]

I worked at a Lancia garage once, I've never seen rot like it. They stopped importing them for a while.

 

[Cian]

I worked at a Lancia garage once, I've never seen rot like it. They stopped importing them for a while.

1994 until 2009 (the first Lancia Delta won't be sold in the UK) isn't 'a while'! They stopped making right hand drive models entirely in that time.

Fiat's market share in the UK and Ireland has been destroyed due to the reputation for rust in the 80s (Lancia was Fiat even then) and dodgy engines/electrics in the 90s. Their cars now have a decade rust warranty and 4 years warranty/AA on them and are some of the most reliable around but nobody buys them here anymore.

And yet they're one of the most successful brands in Europe and are on top in a few sectors - clearly we've longer memories/better ability to hold grudges!

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I had a Fiat bravo for a short while. Horrible, horrible car. Badly designed poorly built with cheap components. Uncomfortable, unreliable, slow. How Fiat ever survived, god alone knows. They made British Leyland look like BMW.

 

[Cian]

And now they're going to build BMW's next car (the Isetta) for them...

New Ford Ka = Fiat 500
Current Opel Corsa = Fiat Punto
The current Suzuki Swift shares a lot of underpinnings with the Punto

 

[Gully]

A Ford Orion, had it for five and a half years and loads of things went wrong with it...for a while it went through oil faster than petrol, I had an alarm fitted to the car that had a mind of its own and seemed to object to me driving it (faulty immobiliser), plus the thing that joined the speedo to the gearbox kept failing (loads of times)...I reckon that by the time I sold it there must have been several thousand miles on it that the mileometer didn't know about...the car was a bloody shed on wheels. After selling it I vowed never to buy another Ford, having owned several other makes since then I see no reason to change my opinion.

 

[NMH]

Honda Accord.
I heard that green cars were unlucky, after I bought the piece of shit.

 

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

TVR Chimera 500. Fast, gorgeous to look at, but f*cking unreliable. I was on first name terms with the vast majority of RAC patrolmen!

 

[Easy 10]

Metro City, 1.0

Woeful little car, couldn't pull a greased stick out of a pigs arse.

 

[bhaexpress]

In my youth I owned a rotting Triumph Vitesse that had doors that would fly open if you went round a corner too fast, that was a heap.

 

[The Large One]

That would have to be the FSO I bought my wife (that will teah her!).

It came with Del-boy type automatic windows.

I was about to mention my first car - a 950cc Ford Fiesta. Crap car, but great for water storage...

However, I didn't own one of them, but my then girlfriend's dad has one of those FSOs. f***ing nightmare to drive. 0-60 was measured in leap years, and you needed shoulders the size of Basingstoke to turn the wheel.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

A Renault Five. I gave it away in the end.

TURBO

 

[Stevie Boy]

never owned a bad car, being in the trade often helps, but have worked on many pieces of shit

 

[Deleted member 2719]

never owned a bad car, being in the trade often helps, but have worked on many pieces of shit

I am in the trade and always thought if it is a Fiat,Land Rover,or is french don't touch it.

Am i close to the mark?

 

[Juan Albion]

However, I didn't own one of them, but my then girlfriend's dad has one of those FSOs. f***ing nightmare to drive. 0-60 was measured in leap years, and you needed shoulders the size of Basingstoke to turn the wheel.

Oh, so it was actually possible to turn the wheel then? Didn't like to try too hard as I thought it might break off like everything else.