We’ve all had them…embarrassing, troublesome little heaps at you felt cursed to be seen in!
Mine was one of these, in bright orange 
it claimed to be a sports version yet struggled to reach 80mph and once there felt like the world was
ending in Armageddon.
It was finally put down by skidding into a wall tearing the hydraulic suspension pipes off, then it bleed to death all over the road in a great big
green puddle. Yeah!! 
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Talbot Alpine, rattled like mad, crap gear change felt like the box had fallen out on every change, was I glad when it finally rusted away, only took
abouy 2 years....
OMG even found a picture of one
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The father in law got a car for us before we arrived back in Scotland.......it was a minty metro.
It understeeeeeerd so badly you had to drive it like a boat.
skoda estelle 
got all the jokes, yeah yeah .....kept hands warm when pushing it as engine in the back, i used to say " i,ve got a rear engined car, & had a
porsche 911 keyring" he he
double its value by filling with fuel, yeah yeah.
times were hard
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Originally posted by handyandy
skoda estelle
got all the jokes, yeah yeah .....kept hands warm when pushing it as engine in the back, i used to say " i,ve got a rear engined car, & had a porsche 911 keyring" he he
double its value by filling with fuel, yeah yeah.
times were hard
Actualy Mr Whipp's
I had an Austin Aggro back in the early 80's, it was an absolute Shyt heap
But certainly wasn't my worst car.
I bought it for £25 with 6 months tax 9 months MOT.
I ran that car for the next 2 years, it never let me down, never worried about it
getting stolen...
Finaly sold it for £100. sorted hu?
Worstest car has to be my Austin A30
Bloody thing, never could get it running properly, always braking down.
Mind you I was only 17 and knew nothing about how cars run.
Not that I know much more now....
David
Without doubt, my worst car to date was this absolute nail of a MK3 Escort 1.1 - total heap of cr8p from the day I paid too much for it to the day it
was scrapped when the floor fell through
No guts, a rubbish Ford attempt at a crab which went through diaphragms like clean socks. 4 speed so constantly revving the tits off it to go
anywhere. It even got stolen from Uni in Salford and dumped in North Wales from where I had to drive it back with no passenger window. The pikey
thieves even left the back seat full of McDonalds wrappers too 
MK3 Escort 1.1 L
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Originally posted by nick205
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Originally posted by handyandy
skoda estelle
got all the jokes, yeah yeah .....kept hands warm when pushing it as engine in the back, i used to say " i,ve got a rear engined car, & had a porsche 911 keyring" he he
double its value by filling with fuel, yeah yeah.
times were hard
...well I always quite liked them myself. Along the lines of...drop in a Porsche engine/transmission and make a super low key street sleeper
1962 Beetle similar to this - absolute death trap!
Had all the early Bl stuff, Marina, Hunter, Maestro, Montego... but the worst car I ever owned was a Mk2 Escort. What a piece of sh1t!
I got it given and could never get the thing to do more than 20mpg (1600). The biggest problem was driving in the wet. I used to get soaked when the
offside wheel splashed through water and up my leg onto the seat.
An absolute nail that everyone lusts after now, me included!
I think these cars are not bad enough people. For a short period of time I borrowed my parents FSO Polonez - now what is a truely awful car, luckily after 2 years of appauling driving my brother managed to blow the cylinder head gasket trying to get 80 out of it. It was scrapped as the repair cost was more than the car was worth - at 2 years.......
im with nick205 i had just the same 1.1 escort absolute waste of steel
chris
Had quite a few;
Austin Pricess, drove through m/boro and could hear a hissing sound now and again, poped the bonet and found petrol dripping onto the exhaust
manifold.It was ok when driving but not at a stand still.
Allegro,marina,beetles and escorts the worst was a xr3 convertible by far it rattled and was not very fast.
I think my worst car I actually owned was a mkIII cavalier saloon like this one, but red:
Apart from it never starting, there was nothing particularly wrong with it, it was just the most boring and soul-less thing I've ever driven.
Only a 1.4 as well, so completely gutless.
I've had my fair share of bangers and rusting heaps, but they all seemed to have some character to them, unlike this thing.
Mind you, the worst driving experience I've had with a car I owned was the sierra donor I bought for my build. It was still road legal (just)
when I bought it, so I drove it home. Trouble was, it could brake, it could steer, but not at the same time
Had two of these bad boys, one the engine blew and the second one burst into flames when the fuel line burst onto the manifold
First one was a delightful beige, then my little raging infurno looked like this.
Hidious car, but got me round whilst my left arm couldn;t move and i couldn't ride
I once had a C reg Fiat Regatta estate, which was utterly crap.
It should have been good as it was based on a Strada and had a 1.6 TC in it. The handling and steering was unbelievably bad.
Stu
Worst was probs Metro - brown over gold coachwork (plus no cost optional extra rust)
Next worst Mk4 escort 1.1 pop.
E30 325i Sport was also quite bad. Back axle was bent, had to get rid of it cheap.
Also had a Audi Coupe for a few weeks - incredibly bad car (just that actual one,not coupe's in general)
Worst condition car was my Mini 850 de-luxe. But i loved that car so it ranks as one of my best.
Lada 1600 the 'sporty' one with cast ali bumpers.
Like driving your tintop with no power steering except it wandered all over the road too. Had suspicious smells and horrible rattly engine.
I bought it to punish the wife who had just wrecked our family car and made her drive the Lada for 6 months! Only joking -it was a very temporary stop
gap until the insurance coughed up. I bought it with a thought about using it in the Lada challenge rally series but it was just too appalling to
contemplate.
It was written off by the insurance company when an electricity board landrover reversed into it and bent the front bumper - bumper would have cost
more than the car was worth!
Worst one I had by far was a 3 yr old Vectra 1.8 CD. I had it for six months. During my entire period of ownership there was never a time when there
wasn't something wrong with it.
Faults ranges from no dashboard illumination, faulty aircon, leaky shocks to the diff giving up in a bangy crashy sort of losing all drive kind of way
- and then to discover that the gearbox can't be replaced without removing the entire engine or dropping the subframe with engine from the
car........
I will never have a Vauxhall again
Take your pick from some of these - I'm sure I've forgotton a few:
Mini 1000
Mini 850
Scirocco GTI
Mk III Escort (XR2 wheels!)
Cavalier SRI
Capri 2.0
Mini 1000 - later a 1300 Turbo
Mini 1275 GT
Talbot Samba
Yugo - my nomination!
MK II Escort van
Renault 5 Turbo
Renault 19 Le Sport!
Rover 420D
Hilux Surf
Seicento Sporting
Renault Megane
Vauxhaul Zafira
Worst car I ever had was this one:
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Totally gutless under 5000 revs and forever breaking. Bits used to fall off it and I used to keep a carrier bag with all the bits of trim, clips, nuts
and bolts that fell off that either I couldn't find where they were from or were too broken to replace. Once towed a caravan with it and kept
getting stuck on hills around Devon either stalling it or masses of tyre smoke. The final straw was when the cam belt broke and the lease company took
it back as the repair costs were too high! (company car)
Volvo 345 DL.
Utter shite.
I've never bought a bad car (why would you) but the worst car I ever had was a loan car that I "hired" from a main dealer whilst they
got the car I wanted. 3 weeks in a maestro was 3.99 weeks more than was really necessary.
I learned to hotwire a car in this when the ignition key wouldn't turn in the barrel. The best thing I can say about it is that it wasn't
as bad as the diesel versions that we had at work as pool cars.
poxall viva,everything that could go wrong did,luckily i had the last laugh and killed it with a machete 
One of the first 1.6 vauxhall vectras. Air Con sapped all the power. Door trip fell off. Water leaked in from the footwells. Engine management always played up.
Mine was my 53 plate passat what a heap nothing ever went right from the day I picked it up.
It was even worse than the ford escort that was bought for me as my first car which when inspected had been in a crash and was bent to buggery mum
said it drove like a crab
MK2 golf 1.3 4speed. at the time, fantastic, but as soon as i got a modern car i realised how bad the golf was!
FSO Polonez (hangs head in shame) the first new car I actually owned. It was like driving a barge.
In saying that in 3 years in never went wrong until me and my lad were going to a job and he commented how reliable the car had been, a mile later
heard this banging noise looked in the mirror to see the petrol tank had fallen out and was being dragged along about 3 yards behind the car with
sparks flying everywhere.
2 weeks after that the cam chain broke and it was tatered.
Cheers,
Bob
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Chrysler 180
It was a half decent Chrysler Ryton design switched to France for internal poltical reasons. Once the Poissy plant was in charge the Simca designers
then stripped all of the British mechanical and electrical parts out the design a substituted an engine with a major design flaw and gear box that
could engage two gears at the same time. The french made electrics were well up to that countries renowned low standards.
The ones made by Chrysler France were bad enough but then they switched production to Spain -- with Spanish made electrical parts !!
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2006 Vauxhall Astra - 1.9cdti (SRI version). Nothing but problems with it from the day I bought it until the day I sold it back to the dealers.
I'm not sure if it was the car that was bad or the totally useless 'dealers' up here in Aberdeen.
I was told by the dealer that they didn't know what the strange rattle noise from the engine was so I'd have to drive it until it broke
properly and then they'd fix whatever it was. It took two days in the end of harsh driving to finally destroy it. Six months of hassle for a
dodgy water pump.
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Worst car I ever had was this one:
Description
Totally gutless under 5000 revs and forever breaking. Bits used to fall off it and I used to keep a carrier bag with all the bits of trim, clips, nuts and bolts that fell off that either I couldn't find where they were from or were too broken to replace. Once towed a caravan with it and kept getting stuck on hills around Devon either stalling it or masses of tyre smoke. The final straw was when the cam belt broke and the lease company took it back as the repair costs were too high! (company car)
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Originally posted by handyandy
skoda estelle
got all the jokes, yeah yeah .....kept hands warm when pushing it as engine in the back, i used to say " i,ve got a rear engined car, & had a porsche 911 keyring" he he
double its value by filling with fuel, yeah yeah.
times were hard
hmmm worst... now thats a close thing
My current car (07 Civic 2.2 TDi) is bloodu awful. definitely the worst built car i have ever owned and has had so many faults in the last 18 months
you wouldnt believe it! Honda- reliable - MY ARSE!
but that has to be beeten into second place by my old renault 19 1.7 TXE .... still have nightmares about that car! <shudder!>
My dear departed Grandfather gifted me my first car when I passed my test... he had only owned it for 6 months (bought it from new), but realised very
quickly what a stinker it was!
Ladies and gentlemen... I too have had a...
FSO POLONEZ
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Originally posted by scootz
My dear departed Grandfather gifted me my first car when I passed my test... he had only owned it for 6 months (bought it from new), but realised very quickly what a stinker it was!
Ladies and gentlemen... I too have had a...
FSO POLONEZ
Mk1 Capri 1300 with padded vinyl roof. terrible performance, worse brakes, handled like a barge, rusted away very quickly. I had a Skoda Estelle which I liked! if you kept a bit of weight in the front it handled suprisingly well just needed more power.
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Originally posted by Dingz
Mk1 Capri 1300
Have to counter Mr Whippy's denigration of what was, in truth, a mediocre car.
My Allegro's best points were :-
1: Cheap to buy (£1600, 16K miles, c.1982/4),
2: Dirt cheap to run,
3: Easy to maintain (very low rech.)
4: Dead reliable.
Bad points - Ooh er!!
The interior trim was diabolically crap. There were globs of assembly adhesive showing all over. Having the gearbox in the sump was a bloody awful
arrangement, and the gear linkage seal always leaked.
At least, I had the model with a round steering wheel!!
By far the worst car I've had :-
Austin Maestro 1.6 c.1985, with that god-awful Audi cast-off g/box. Crap build quality, crap engine (in addition to aforementioned g/box), crap
reliability - kept dying on me, and worst of all, crap decision to buy the damn thing in the first place.
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Daf 33 Variomatic
libaray picture
My most enviromently freindly car 1975 5.7l chevy powered RR.
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Hey I wont hear a bad word against DAF's , used to have a 55 rallye it went like stink.
Cheers,
Bob
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Daf 33 Variomatic
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Montego MG Turbo.
You've never experienced proper torque steer, till you've driven one.
On boost you have to wrestle to keep it out of the fields!
Oh, & the metric tyres were £200 each.( 15 years ago)
I had one of these... An Austin A40.
Dreadful car. The only saving grace was the BMC A series engine, which was good and reliable. The rest was really bad. Talk about rotbox!
Oh and one of the Land Rover's. However this was bought as a restoration project.
It was fairly rusty to say the least. Have a good look at the pics (blow them up as they are thumbnails) There are a few holes
Linky