Most uncomfortable car you've driven?

Atomic Pineapple

Following on from the most comfortable car you've driven thread....

Whats the most uncomfortable?

Whats the one car you'd hate to have to drive for an hour?

For me it was a 01 Corsa, the seats were terrible, the interior was just rank, depressing stuff and it didn't get any better when driving it.

squod

03 corolla

cursai

06 Ford Mondeo. If your tall, the radio buttons under the steering wheel dig at your knees. have to sit way back.

SV

AE86 corolla

ughhhhhhhhhhhhh horrible..absolutely horrible

Mycroft H

BMW 1 series.

Horrible to drive on any sort of back road. Far too uncomfortable

cantdecide

Lowered teg or a lowered Nova.

Stevie Dakota

Nissan Serena, not really a car though, more a mobile skip.

Max Power1

mark IV ford fiesta.

much as i loved it, it wasnt the most comfortable car for two hours on the motorway!

Michael 09

MG F... I felt like I needed a shower after I got out of it...

Anan1

In absolute terms, a 1982 Kadett estate. Relative to my expectations, an Audi A8 3.7 FWD.

MidlandsM

SV wrote: »

AE86 corolla

ughhhhhhhhhhhhh horrible..absolutely horrible

Renault Clio, Awful yoke :pac:

SV

MidlandsM wrote: »

Renault Clio, Awful yoke :pac:

jesus christ, you're an awful child.
píss off yeah?

mike65

Mk3 Ford Escort 1980, a car that was wrong on so many levels.

no1beemerfan

An almost new Astra 5 door we hired in the uk last yr or the yr before, uncomfortable and everything rattled.

Also a lotus esprit....brutal at low speeds, clunky gearbox and you were like a jack-in-the-box through town but brilliant otherwise!

R.O.R

It's a toss up between a Peugeot 407, a Nissan Primera (last shape) or a Renault Laguna.

All 3 have a seating position which feels like you are "on" the car rather than in the car. Unfortunately the 159 is bordering on that too,which spoils it for me completley.

No are a patch on the 2004 or 2005 Sprinters that I took home earlier this year, but as vans they don't count.

Vanbis

Mitsubishi Colt 1.3 GL and Volkswagen Golf MK4.

NickDrake

Newer Focus. Like sitting in a big piece of plastic. Like driving a toy car. I was afraid it would break.

robtri

most back breaking car was a Countach....... fecking thing is amazing but seriously wasnt a good drive......

Anan1

MidlandsM wrote: »

Renault Clio, Awful yoke :pac:

SV wrote: »

jesus christ, you're an awful child.
píss off yeah?

Now kids...

Sticky Fingers

A pal of mine bought a Porsche 911 recently, while it's a brilliant car, really really quick and it does handle like a rollerskate. The only problem is that it is very uncomfortable to drive as the suspension is rock hard. You can feel every pothole and bump. The seats are sh*te too. I know it's a sports car but driving it on any roads apart from motorways is horrible.

Anan1

Sticky Fingers wrote: »

A pal of mine bought a Porsche 911 recently, while it's a brilliant car, really really quick and it does handle like a rollerskate. The only problem is that it is very uncomfortable to drive as the suspension is rock hard. You can feel every pothole and bump. The seats are sh*te too. I know it's a sports car but driving it on any roads apart from motorways is horrible.

That's funny, i've an older (1986) one and it's actually quite comfortable, with excellent seats. It's loud, and it's a very physical car to drive, but it's not harsh.

.Longshanks.

A late 90's (??) Subaru Impreza P1. The suspension on a skateboard would be more forgiving.
Went like stink thou

DirkVoodoo

Land Rover Defender. Don't get me wrong, it was great having it during the winter, but it's the most awful thing to drive. Hill starts are a nightmare unless you like pressing your head against a steering wheel to reach the handbrake.

dantt7

08 astra, the woman bought it new, the seats in it kill my back, my legs go numb after a half hour in it and i,m not really tall or anything

DirkVoodoo

Can I also add: Mark 5 Golf 1.6 FSI with an auto box - possibly the worst gear box I have ever used, really awful thing. And the brakes aren't much better on it either: nothing, nothing....THUMP, full force!

Eoin

I'd have to say my 89 Mini City, as much as I loved it. I don't know if it counts, but my friend used to have a crew cab (can't remember what brand) and it was just horrible. Maybe it was a bad example of one, but I can't figure out why people drive them as private cars.

Sticky Fingers

LIGHTNING wrote: »

I dont know what your friend ordered but I have driven a large number of Porsches from various decades and none of the could be described as uncomfortable. In fact even the hardcore ones were still a nice place to be in.

I wonder is there something wrong with the suspension ? He bought a '03 Carrera. They are still great cars though.

peasant

Trabant 601 ...uhh ...painful

Having said that, it's very ergonomical. You can hold your ears closed with your knees while driving, so you don't hear the engine "note"

Tea 1000

I drove a 997 Carrera S on less than ideal roads and found it very comfortable too. Nice seats.

Mike Litoris

New Golf and Octavia. Drove an 08 golf for ten minutes and couldn't wait to get back out.

Had an Octavia for a weekend and it screwed up my back.

ianobrien

The most uncomfortable car I've driven was a modified Escort RS2000. It was running sticky rubber on 7" wide wheels, and with the small RS steering wheel, low speed manovering was an arm wrestling experience. It did have roller top mounts, but that didn't help much.

It also had narrow RS Turbo front seats which really held you in, but were quite tight to stop you moving around (and I'm not a small lad). You can guess the rest.

Also, the Pinto had a fairly lumpy cam meaning that slow speed driving/idling in traffic meant fouled plugs. It was constant battle to keep the revs up (and drive in traffic at the same time)

The car was meant to be driven fast, very fast and was extremly good at that, but in town, it was terrible....

I decided afterwards never to have a Pinto engined mk1/2 Escort, and was nearly killed for saying it.

wildefalcon

1998 Opel Corsa. Hire car from Dublin Airport.

It felt like there was no physical connection between the controls and the car.

I actually stopped and opened the bonnet and checked that it was a 4 cylinder.

Horrid, rubber controls (steering, clutch, brake).

I quite liked the looks but it was a heck of a let down.

G.

Henry Ford III

I drove my MkII Escort RS2000 over the w/e - went Limerick - Dublin, and Liverpool - Leicester and back (but via Belfast).

Car was faultless throughout, but the poor driver was pretty cream crackered

Kxiii

Renault senic
nissan tiida
and worst of all Opel Aguila that thing felt like it was going to land on the door handles when cornering

Cormic

My mums old Mini was really uncomfortable. It was like a go cart.

95 Toyota Celica, horrible and my aul' fella's Suzuki Liana,

P.C.

draffodx wrote: »

Whats the one car you'd hate to have to drive for an hour?

My first car - a 1974 Mazda 323 1.4 GLE
It was past 20 years old when I got it.
Great around town, but if the journey was longer than an hour, it would wreck my back and my legs (and that was when I was a young fella).

I used to sit sideways in the seat to try and ease the discomfort.

Owen

04 Merc C Class - Classic Spec. Sure it soaked up the bumps, but it handled like a cruise liner. I've never had so much bodyroll in anything. Cornering with any gusto was ridiculous and uncomfortable - thrown all around the seat. Then you hit the brakes, and the front pogos up and down. Enough to make you vomit. Stupid pensioner car!

benj

97 seat somethig....made me physical travel sick after a 10 min drive :eek:

Mike Litoris

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Ah sure that because you back was wrecked from putting so much stuff into the enormous boot

Hehe, I actually went to Sligo to pick up a PS3 and TV in it, it was the old lump of a PS3 too.

The TDI is great but me jaysus back was wrecked after it.

shogunpower

a 2007 kia rio or something whatever there called, i do believe they use rubber as shocks:eek: it was like a lowerd piece of ****e civic only it handled like a giraffe on roller skates:pac:

ottostreet

a lexus is200

it was on big wheels and lowered and all, and i jsut found it horrible. the seats were horrible cloth ones, so even though you felt relatively comfortable first sitting in, after an hour, id be sweating terribly, my back would be killing me, and id be very stiff getting out.

haven't experienced that since my punto days!

-Corkie-

squod wrote: »

03 corolla

+100000000000000

Any sort of a corolla. When god invented celery it was the blandest most boring thing in the world. He was amazed when man improved on that and made the corolla which was more boring and bland.

Not

R.O.R wrote: »

It's a toss up between a Peugeot 407, a Nissan Primera (last shape) or a Renault Laguna.

All 3 have a seating position which feels like you are "on" the car rather than in the car. Unfortunately the 159 is bordering on that too,which spoils it for me completley.

No are a patch on the 2004 or 2005 Sprinters that I took home earlier this year, but as vans they don't count.

The Primera gets my vote. The seat attempts to be adjustable every which way but there are so many adjustable boards in it is just feels like sitting on a collection of hard planks. Trying all the adjustments every which way nothing felt anyway comfortable, the one place my back needed support there wasn't, and about 10 minutes in it was enough to bring on severe back pain.

Mr Benevolent

Alfa 156 as a passenger. You could feel every single imperfection in the road. Couldn't been a wishbone gone as it was a test drive from a slightly dodgy dealer.

fonecrusher1

About a week after i lowered my civic coupe a few years ago i realised i'd turned a fairly comfortable car into a back braking pain in the hole of a car that i was glad to get out of at the end of each journey.:(

Yeah it was a better ride in the corners but by christ did everything else suffer. Any sort of bump, lump, manhole cover, anything at all made the car shake like a sh!tting dog. Never again.:rolleyes:

CreepingDeath

My first car was an 1.2 litre Opel Corsa ( 1992 )

The steering wheel was about an inch or two off-centre.
If you sat perfectly straight, the steering wheel was an inch or two to the left of where it should be. On long drives, it would give a bit of muscle pain in my back.

HAMMERCURRENT

78 mini, feel evey bump, headlights were like candles and because it was so low, every other car on the road blinded me with their lights.

ianobrien

Henry Ford III wrote: »

I drove my MkII Escort RS2000 over the w/e - went Limerick - Dublin, and Liverpool - Leicester and back (but via Belfast).

Car was faultless throughout, but the poor driver was pretty cream crackered

You see, I've been spoiled by my Mk2 Escort Ghia. Light steering, comfy seats and all the usual Ghia comfort. A RS on standard 6" wheels, ordinary tyres and standard RS seats is a reasonable place, but driving one on 7" sticky rubber was uncomfortable.

glynf

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Land Rover Defender. Don't get me wrong, it was great having it during the winter, but it's the most awful thing to drive. Hill starts are a nightmare unless you like pressing your head against a steering wheel to reach the handbrake.

+1 for the Defender, drove a mid 80's one for a week, complete dog of a thing.

Henry Ford III

ianobrien wrote: »

You see, I've been spoiled by my Mk2 Escort Ghia. Light steering, comfy seats and all the usual Ghia comfort. A RS on standard 6" wheels, ordinary tyres and standard RS seats is a reasonable place, but driving one on 7" sticky rubber was uncomfortable.

I have 13 x 6" 4 spoke alloys and a standard tractable 2.0 pinto. Steering is heavy in town but fine out of it.

It was the noise that got me in the end - mostly motorway driving. A lot of it.