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Worst Car You've Owned
Topic Started: May 25 2007, 08:34 PM (338 Views)
Kerri
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It's two cars for me :(
I had a Renault Clio and a Peugeot 306 in the same year. :(
They were both dreadful, minging looking and both fell to pieces much to the amusement of my friends. <roflmao>
It taught me an important lesson. Never buy French cars! <nono> <nono>
If I picked the worst, I would chose the Pug. It was the worst made car I have ever driven. :(
What's the worst car you have owned? :) <flirt>
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Kerri,May 25 2007
09:34 PM
It's two cars for me :(
I had a Renault Clio and a Peugeot 306 in the same year. :(
They were both dreadful, minging looking and both fell to pieces much to the amusement of my friends. <roflmao>
It taught me an important lesson. Never buy French cars! <nono> <nono>
If I picked the worst, I would chose the Pug. It was the worst made car I have ever driven. :(
What's the worst car you have owned? :) <flirt>

I've never owned a car :(

However, the worst car I've ever driven was the Peugeot 205 GTi, which I referred to as "The Hateful Little Beast". Whenever whitestar drove it, it was perfectly well behaved, but I am convinced that it hated me. It never did anything I wanted it to - EVER, but I did shed a tear when it went to someone who wanted to rebuild it as a rally car.
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Kerri
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I had a celebration when I sold my 306 and Clio! :)
Those poor people that bought them! The misery they must have suffered! <no>
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probably a VW beetle restoration project that cost me 60 quid and never got off my drive due to there not being enough rust free metal to hold a weld!

ive driven a Lada and a Skoda - they were bad (the old skodas WW)
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It was a terrible car, but I loved it, a 1970 MG midget. I worked on everything from the headlights to the tail pipes. But, I did learn a lot about auto repair!
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Never owned a car, but the worst car i have driven is a vey old VW polo fox. it only has 4 forward gears for heavens sake!
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only had two cars. the 16V Astra is a pain in the ass to be honest, as the sensors are all failing, one by one. In the last two weeks i been to the garage four times, as a sensor fails and it puts the engine to 'get me home' speck i.e. 30 mph max. its ridiculous.
but if i'm honest, the skoda favorite wasnt much better in reliability stakes. I loved my skoda, as much as i love the Astra, so i dunno. 'Worst' is such a difficult term. I have a model of a 405 somewhere. thats pretty shocking, the paint flaked off really easily. does that count?
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Norbert
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12:25 AM
it only has 4 forward gears for heavens sake!

Some of us are old enough to remember 5 forward gears being a luxury - and I'm not even 30 yet!

<roflmao>
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I saw a French tank that had 6 gears. 1 forward and 5 reverse! <roflmao>
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flood1,May 26 2007
10:44 PM
I saw a French tank that had 6 gears. 1 forward and 5 reverse! <roflmao>

I thought that was the new Italian one?

<roflmao>

Reminds me of theat other classic:

How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?

Dunno, they've never tried!

<peek>
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I've never disliked any car I have owned but my first car was a Nova 1.4 merit. It was nippy but the red paint seriously faded and it felt a tad rickety. My second car was a honda civic 1.4, comfortable, well built but I just felt like an old man in it. If there ever was a plodders car.

Out of these 2 I can't really decide which was the worst, the Nova was unreliable (well, the bumpers didn't hold on very well and the body shell felt tinny) and the honda was slow.

After that I bought a 1.4 clio and I loved it. Nippy, reliable, great to drive.
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Astra GSi in a shocking shade of yellow. I inherated it off my predecessor at a company I worked for 10 years ago. It was fast in a straight line but suffered from the worst torque steer imaginable and the fact it would wheel spin in third gear made me conclude that a bunch of badgers did the chassis set up. Terrible car in a terrible colour and I loathed it from the very depths of my soul.
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Kerri,May 25 2007
09:34 PM
It's two cars for me :(
I had a Renault Clio and a Peugeot 306 in the same year. :(
They were both dreadful, minging looking and both fell to pieces much to the amusement of my friends. <roflmao>
It taught me an important lesson. Never buy French cars! <nono> <nono>
If I picked the worst, I would chose the Pug. It was the worst made car I have ever driven. :(
What's the worst car you have owned? :) <flirt>

I guess the worst car I owned was my 1st. a white 1981 Renault 5 1.3 GTL with black vinyl roof and bright orange seats. I'd still rate it as better than the Micra I had as a hire car earlier this year. What a hunk of cr*p and the Astra twin top I had before that was the most uncomfortable car I have ever had the misfortune to drive.

As for Peugeot 306s I've had 2. An N reg XSI and an S reg GTI-6 Both were fantastic cars <thumbsup>
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