THE WORST CAR YOU've EVER DRIVEN

[Henry330i]

Was that without the gearbox? :fencelook:

Took me 27min on sunday :rollsmile:

And did it come back home or straight to a salvage yard:rollsmile:

LOL! B@stard, I'm still alive and the car is safe in the garage

Was on the N2 so with tolls, just that roads were quiet for a sunday afternoon, only slowed down for pigs with their cameras :yuck:

Past the airport is perfect to stretch your car's legs

Would this be one of those private test roads I always read about on this site:rollsmile:

 

[Hawk318ti]

Mine is the Renault Sandero 1.4 that i had for a weekend as a rental in durban. took forever to go anywhere and when you change gears the seats rocked back and forth. BTW it was brand new :yuck:

 

[Doomsdaya]

VW beetle by a country mile!!!!

I had a rear wheel depart the vehical at 100kph on the highway, also the engine bay set itself alight at a stop sign one evening.

+1

My front wheel departed while exiting my house :thumbdo:

Did you at least get some smoke from the tire before it let go?

:roflol: dont underestimate a 1600 single port motor with donkey kong size 165/80/15 tyres :woot:

But to answer the question, no its a rear wheel drive

 

[ChrisBrand]

A Tata dealer once drove into my dads Merc. He offered to lend a Tata Indica free of charge. I drove it once from Durbanville to Stellenbosch. After hitting 140km/h the car smelt like an indian restaurant mixed with the shirt of a worker at a rubber disposal plant. Drove back and fetched my beetle instead.

 

[Caddy101]

Mine is the Renault Sandero 1.4 that i had for a weekend as a rental in durban. took forever to go anywhere and when you change gears the seats rocked back and forth. BTW it was brand new :yuck:

I have "passenged" in the back of Sandero. For some reason, the people who made it believe that human beings have do desire to recline, however slightly. The backrest is very upright, good way to get your posture perfect if you have no regard for comfort.

 

[rick540]

The first Hyundai Accent, it lasted 10 days till I couldnt stand it anymore.... the thing sucked the personality out of anybody who drove it.

Next worse was renting a 1000cc Yaris in Jhb and trying to go up a hill with the aircon on....didn't work

 

[Rambam]

My first car was a Renault 5TS, I bought it from the scrapyard I worked at for R2000 and sold it back to them 2 months later for R1500. This has to be the worst car I ever drove, there was so much chassis damage that when you accelerated the car pulled left so you had to counter that by yanking right and when you tried to change gears the thing would stop pulling left so you needed to counter again - a real art form!

I had the pleasure of driving a 1913 Ford model T in Ireland, even thiswas easier to drive than the Renault aka Silver Bullet

 

[herr bmw]

VW beetle by a country mile!!!!

I had a rear wheel depart the vehical at 100kph on the highway, also the engine bay set itself alight at a stop sign one evening.

+1

My front wheel departed while exiting my house :thumbdo:

my rear wheel passenger side,came off at 80km,ended up in a mielie field,but i still loved my beetle

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also been in a yaris 1000cc what space?
what power?
i think the lady from the old age home,with her walker came past us on the uphill:roflol:

 

[Sankekur]

For me it was a Daewoo Matiz, what an appalling piece of crap, more uncomfortable than being stabbed, and slower that crawling after you have been stabbed.

 

[zaleonardz]

I tell you what though...

I just pulled in a customers Range rover 2011 HSE Luxury addition..

damm but this thing is fine, the interior quality is probably some of the best I have experienced, equal to or above that of the F01...

I was impressed by it, in all fairness it is like 800k+ worth of a car, but still... very very nice..

 

[WyKiD]

All the cars that have been listed in this thread pale in comparison to the Geely 1.5 pos(looks like a scaled down W203 C-class mercedes) that I once got as a courtesy car from Subaru. The car was fairly new with 7000km but the gearbox was like a lucky packet when it came to selecting gear. Everytime you turned left the engine would cut out, rev counter would climb, noise would inrease along with vibration but speed generally stayed the same....

 

[rick540]

All the cars that have been listed in this thread pale in comparison to the Geely 1.5 pos(looks like a scaled down W203 C-class mercedes) that I once got as a courtesy car from Subaru. The car was fairly new with 7000km but the gearbox was like a lucky packet when it came to selecting gear. Everytime you turned left the engine would cut out, rev counter would climb, noise would inrease along with vibration but speed generally stayed the same....

Driven a Chery?

It's exactly the same but the engine doesnt cut out, stinks of cheap plastic inside. My bother rented one and was having me on about how awesome it was, flipped me the keys and I came back feeling duped.

 

[Luis Malhou]

I have owned quite alot of cars in my life and am BMW through and through....but!!
Used to own what was called a E12 518 2.0L twin carb!! My dad bought it for me as a replacment for my written off mazda 323 (my 1st car). Handled like a ship.. cream car with brown interior.... worst part was the fuel economy.. drank fuel like it was going to expire!!! and came with a 4speed box... disastorous model for BMW, luckily never put me off the brand...

But a ford bantam1.4l 1/2tonner was the worst..no power, nevermind when loaded, then it was all over the road, shitty uncomfortable seats, and who ever thought of putting the loadbox tiedown points inside the loadbox needs his head examined... threw a party when i got rid of it..

 

[Coisman]

imp:
At work, the worst car ever was a Ford Laser 1600i, my patrol car.
Now this thing was way to low from the factory, you couldn't even go over a white line in the road without it scraping on the bottom.
When you put foot, it would rattle, shake, moan and groad, and the rev counter would pick up, but the speedo wouldn't.
And worst of all, 2nd-3rd time you braked hard, the brakefluid would overheat and you would have no brakes, thus stopping at the accident scene with a wet spot infront and a brown stripe in the back... :mmm:
PS: Now you know why spietkops wear kaki-pants...

Off duty: The worst was the 1.3 citigolf I had to use while ACE gearbox was rebuilding my Honda's gearbox. This thing was a total death-trap, kak stering response, kak power, kak handling, kak braking, kak interior, kak paintjob, and no!! Not a kak driver! :rollsmile:

 

[Philip Foglar]

LOL, my first car was also a Renault 5TS - that car had it in for me!! Used to shock me daily (could see the 1 inch discharge from the door)! And then various trims bits would repeated fall off causing embarrassment, driver's window weather-strip was cracked in half and sort of held in place by some glue, so a few times had to stop and retrieve it from the road after falling out! Hatch mechanism wasn't very reliable and allowed the rather heavy hatch to slam down on my pip - can't explain the sensation, it's like all of a sudden being in two places at once!!!

Other than that the car was quite nice for town driving (when it wanted to be), but hopeless in every other situation! Handling was dangerous, so open road was not fun! But in reality I can't really put this car down to being the worst that I have driven simply because of its age and role as being my first car...

Later on I bought a brand new (yes, very stupid) '98 Corolla 1.3 - now this was epic in the sense of being bad!!! Engine was horrible in so many different ways. Had a nasty and common flat-spot, suffered from percolation on hot days, and worst of all, it would stutter and jerk badly when turning right when accelerating! Brakes were noisy and developed run-out far too easily to the point that the rear view mirror would appear "blurred"! Economy wasn't too bad, but for what it did I reckon it was a huge fail! Gearing was stupid - too much of a gap between 1st and 2nd gear which made pulling off and going up hills a pain! It was just a horrible car! No power, no refinement, no point (wasn't that economical) - if anything, caused me to become a more aggressive and angry driver back then!!

 

[WyKiD]

All the cars that have been listed in this thread pale in comparison to the Geely 1.5 pos(looks like a scaled down W203 C-class mercedes) that I once got as a courtesy car from Subaru. The car was fairly new with 7000km but the gearbox was like a lucky packet when it came to selecting gear. Everytime you turned left the engine would cut out, rev counter would climb, noise would inrease along with vibration but speed generally stayed the same....

Driven a Chery?

It's exactly the same but the engine doesnt cut out, stinks of cheap plastic inside. My bother rented one and was having me on about how awesome it was, flipped me the keys and I came back feeling duped.

No...saving that for a special day:flyfun:

Aah yes that smell of nice new recycled plastic, got even more "mature" after being parked in the sun for a bit...

 

[Sith]

Has to be my friend's gutless early nineties Uno. Admittedly, they were cheap cars to start with, but that thing was just kak in all respects. Another nasty car I had the misfortune of driving was a, luckily also a friend's, early eighties Colt Galant. The car was old, gotta give it that, but just plain crappy. :yuck:

 

[Caddy101]

Anybody have experience with a Chrysler 300C?

:fencelook:

 

[Sith]

A guy at my work has one and, all I can say, it is very beeeg! Not my kind of car, but can't pass judgement on it, as have never driven one.

 

[CocoPops]

Hyundai Atos.. my word in capetown had to fight the car on the highway at 120kph.. strong winds and car was just getting blown around.. was scary.