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Worst car I’ve ever driven.

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There was the Nissan 1989 Sentra rental car,in Hawaii,
the Subararu Justy that we turned the Sentra in for (those 3
little Hamsters were working their little hoofies off!
And then the was the Toyota Sienna van we rented in Baltimore - strange design,felt like it wanted to tip over.
I wince every time I see one on the road.
I can't believe people buy these things.I think that people believe that because it has a Toyota badge on it,that it's the best thing out there.

- Doug
 
Can't really say....

By the time I get my "daily drivers", they alwready have one tyre in the breaker's yard. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angel.gif

They don't perform as intended. (by the manufacturer)
 
The '85 Chevy Celebrity station wagon I learned to drive on. Decent sized wagon with a bitty 4 banger. Automatic, of course. At the end of it's life, my sister owned it, and painted little planets over all the rust. Drove it once shortly before it's demise, and it was truly scary at freeway speeds. Shook and made all sorts of scary sounding noises. May have been only running on 3 cylinders.

Even the nostalgia of getting my license on it didn't help. Horrible!
 
Best front wheel drive car I ever owned (I've only had 2) was a 1989 Honda CRX HF... 65 HP 80 inch wheelbase, not really much tin in the middle. Fastest I've ever knowingly been in a car... relatively 5 invisible ticks over 135 MPH... But I usually call it 135 mph. Handled great... tripoded alot (it loved to raise the inside rear tire at extreme turning loads)... Pushed hard if the road was wet. But still a fun car.
 
Worst one hmmmmmm... there's some compitition there.
My 67 Galaxie had 4 wheel drum, non- power assist brakes. In a 4000 lb car that ment you had to have 2 blocks and a flight plan to get it to stop. and the front end was so worn out you just kind of corrected the direction by giving the steering wheel a good swing to the side you wanted to go. then swinging it back the other way when you were drifting out of the other side of the lane.
Not to mention it needed 2 quarts of oil and a gallon of water after my 20 mile drive to work every day.
But it also had 240,000 miles on it. I loved that car /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Worst rental was a Geo Metro I got when I wrecked my Jeep. the steering was so tight my arms hurt after driving it. I told that to the guy when I returned it. He just shrugged and said "Eh.."
I have to agree on the Sienna vans. We have more problems with those things....
And the other Toyota I don"t care for is the last generation Celica. I can't see out of those things for squat. And I don't fit in them very well either.
 
I drove my Father's '85 Ford Crown Vic into town from their lake home after his funeral. It was his pride and joy/ "Lincoln substitute" when it was new. Originally was a nice, quiet cruiser but I drove it in '03-- 18 years with still the original shocks, skinny tires (by today's standards) and absolutely no power despite the V8 engine. Steering my way through country roads, trying to enter hiway ramps and merge with traffic was pretty scary-- Brakes sort of worked but I learned later that at least 2 of the drums were contaminated with brake fluid from leaky wheel cylinders. My mother felt "safe" in the car because of its size but we talked her out of driving after a few scary "encounters". I suspect with new shocks, brakes, seals everywhere, tuneup and tires it could again have been a pleasant cruiser. It was still beautiful inside because they kept the interior covered with blankets so they wouldn't get the seats dirty.
 
Kenny, I had an 88 HF, great car. I wonder why Honda stopped making them. They were probably just too efficient.

Patrick
 
they replaced the CRX with the Insight... even MORE efficient... but slightly less attractive than the CRX thanks to the wierd boat tail like rear end....
 
'85 Dodge Aries K.

Herself had it given to her... she wanted to do up a BolderTint for it to read: "DODGE THIS!!!" in reverse... and a mock trunk badge in pseudo-Chrysler font: "INSIPID" or "DECREPID"

...hateful car.
 
I think the 1989 or so Plymouth Reliant I had in driver's ed class was pretty lousy. It didn't help that it was also the "practice dummy" for auto mechanics class at school /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif. Let's see: Muffler was missing, steering wheel was 90 degrees off, horn didn't work, gearshift detents were shot so it frequently sagged down into second (made interesting lurches when it did on the highway) and you had to nudge it back up into drive. If you wanted the car to have any acceleration that might put it ahead of a dump truck you had to floor it. The latter wasn't such a bad thing though; if the teacher wanted to keep you from running the yellow light he didn't have to try very hard, so you'd end up with the car at an abrupt stop with the engine going full tilt.
 
I owned a 85 Dodge Aries and have to admit it wasn’t bad – for basic transportation. Nothing redeeming about it from a performance standpoint. But then to be totally fair hardly anything from that period of American automotive history is.
 
Out of many, got to be the Talbot Samba I had (worse even than the Morris Minor). Bad frame. Front and rear wheels used to move relative to one another when cornering.

The Marina was a bit of a dog too, mind. For that matter so was the Vauxhall Victor. I'd better stop. I'm starting to remember some of the other ones and its making me queasy...
 
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I real Aries K owner - /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif

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Folks.....I think we have a winner! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif

I test drove one at the lowest point in my life where I desperately needed transportation.......I didn't buy it.
I walked.
 
The worst car I remember driving was a Chevette borrowed from a neighbor that I drove for a week. I really thought I was going to like it but I spent the week trying to figure out how such a small car could have such lousy steering.

The worst I owned was my Jeep CJ-7, bought new. It seemed like everything either broke, fell off, or rusted. However, I liked using it so much that I forgave it almost everything.

It pains me to say that the one I've owned that I've disliked the most is my current Toyota Tacoma truck, which I bought new just last year. It replaced a 17 year old Toyota 4wd truck that I loved. I gave the old one to my daughter and the way things are going I may ask her to swap for the new one.
 
I've almost put the 1980 Suzuki Jimny that I drove in Okinawa into the "worst car I've ever driven" catagory, but I can't bring myself to do it. I can easily admit that it was the car in the worst condition that I've ever owned, but that thing was WAY too much fun off road for me to call it the worst car I've ever driven. It was made of rust, had a spray can two tone paint job (flat black and yellow /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif ), 4-wheel drive, had a 3-cylinder 2-stroke 550cc mill in it, exhaust was half missing half the time, and patched together with Japanese vending machine coffee cans and hose clamps the other half. In 4-low 1st gear at idle grandma with her walker moved faster /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif, top speed was 90KPH ... downhill ... with a tail wind!

Man that was the bigest hunk a junk on asphault, but I had oh so much fun with it on back trails... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
79 Toyota Corolla Liftback. Over weight, underpowered ugly pile of junk! 2600 Lbs with 60 or 65 HP. 0-60 times over 20 seconds. Top speed 80 MPH but it took about 40-50 seconds to reach it. Handling was horrible and when warm the engine would flood out on left hand turns! (everything was properly adjusted in the carb.. it too was a pile of c***!)
Had an 81 K car thought it was a much better driver than the Toyota even if the interior was more spartan. FWIW
 
The absolute wose one was when I was racing the Fiesta
Showroom Stock C at Portland International Raceway,back in the early '80's.
The engine quit after the first qualifying session.
Tore it down,& found out that a part of the #2 piston had been missing for a while.
I had a fellow racer tell me that I could leave the car at his house,while we vacationed in Canada/Montana.
Another Fiesta racer,told me I could borrow his trailer to haul the car on.
Another racer,whom I'd loaned my driving gloves to earlier,told me I could borrow his tow vehicle.
The car was a real gem,a Chevy Monza,that was his Wife's car.
This car had been totalled,& repaired.
While towing the Fiesta,it always appeared that the trailer was passing me,as the hitch was offset to one side.
I also had to stop every time I checked the directions on how to get to the location,as the dome light didn't work.
Oh,& the parking brake didn't work,so I had to turn off the engine,so I could use the headlights to read the directions!
I was never happier to reunite an owner with his car as I was then.
The return trip was almost as good...................Ask me sometime.

- Doug
 
Worst car I'v OWNED was a 1985 Jeep Cherokee Wagoneer...Drove ok, and was decent off road....but I bet it got more miles during my mechanics test runs than my actual driving. That thing was ALWAYS broken, we even developed an alternate plan for morning when the jeep wouldn't go(about once a week).
 
R6MGs, Was it a Cherokee or a Wagoneer? The Cherokee was the little one, the Wagoneer was huge.
I had an '85 Cherokee Pioneer. 2.5L 4 cyl, 5 speed. Rotten to bits, ran like puke, but always started. That junker never left me stranded. But top speed, foot to the floor, 5th gear, downhill, was 80 MPH. And you had to dump the clutch to stop it from Dieseling then backfiring when you shut it off.
My aunt owned the absolute worst Wagoneer I've ever heard of. It would intermittantly start running bad, then belch a gigantic fireball out from underneath while driving down the freeway, then it would be fine for a while. They rolled that thing, slid it into trees, and drove it all over the place. They finally got rid of it when one of her kids took it to college, and on the way there his pet cat fell through one of the gaping holes on the floorboards and he ran it over.
 
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