Worst car ever made ?

keithclancy

I think it might be this thing :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y16ObVRvgOE

Frynge

Nope. Fiat multipla.

MuppetCheck

Frynge wrote: »

Nope. Fiat multipla.

Being fugly doesn't make it the worst car ever made. It was a brilliant bit of kit looks aside.

Donnelly117

Ssangyong Rodius is worse looking then a Multipla...

pred racer

Opel vectra 96- whenever they stopped making that pos model

jacksie66

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Zubeneschamali

jacksie66 wrote: »

Thats the worst looking car, not the worst overall. Was supposed to be pretty good actually.

I bought a diesel new in 2000, and it was the best car I'd ever owned at the time.

I don't really care what my cars look like outside: your looking at them, not me.

crasy dash

Let's not forget the Renault avantime bit of a flop is an understatement.

TherapyBoy

I thought the Ford Edsel was commonly known as the worst car ever made. Named for Henry Ford's son, or an urban legend acronym Every Day Something Else Leaks.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Renault 11.

Anyone who's ever had one will agree.I went through three engines before finally coming to my senses and turning japanese.

marklazarcovic

nissan leaf ... awful

lanos

the worst car I ever owned was a 03 focus diesel 1.8 TDCI
most reliable was a 00 Corsa 1 litre - the wife sold it to a neighbour and it is still going strong

jca

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Renault 11.

Anyone who's ever had one will agree.I went through three engines before finally coming to my senses and turning japanese.

Quickly followed by the Renault 9 another piece of junk. But I think you're right, the 11 was downright awful.

jca

pred racer wrote: »

Opel vectra 96- whenever they stopped making that pos model

A friend of mine bought one new in 97 a terrible yoke altogether, the illuminated engine managent light was a permanent fixture on the dash. Dangerously slow too....

shanec1928

A nissan bolero a unique car to say the least..

TrailerBob

The Renault 25 was pretty dire....and the Rover 400

But for me it's the 96-02 vectra... So bad from a car company that should have known better

parttime

My Skoda Octavia 03 1.4 petrol

Foxhole Norman

Rover City Rover?

Marcusm

crasy dash wrote: »

Let's not forget the Renault avantime bit of a flop is an understatement.

You might think that but it was designed as a niche halo model; it gave rise to 10 years of styling cues across the Renaukt range. A friend who lives in France (Côte d'ivoire born Belgian) has one in his collection of Euro classics (as he sees them). In 3.0 v6 form, I agree. They were very sui generis but a future niche classic.

Zubeneschamali

crasy dash wrote: »

Let's not forget the Renault avantime bit of a flop is an understatement.

Commercial flop is not the same as worst car.

Lots of crap cars sell by the shipload.

Nekarsulm

Austin Maestro would get my vote, followed closely by the Citroën Xantia.

johnayo

Fully agree with the Austin maestro.
Wouldn't agree with the Xantia though.

Nekarsulm

johnayo wrote: »

Fully agree with the Austin maestro.
Wouldn't agree with the Xantia though.

Well to be fair, I suppose the Xantia was good when new and dealer serviced. But as a 2nd hand buy, they could drive you to the brink of a nervous breakdown. At least mine did!

inc21

Ford Orion

colm_mcm

Was the Orion that much worse than the Escort though

jca

colm_mcm wrote: »

Was the Orion that much worse than the Escort though

In diesel form, yes. They were terrible that diesel engine was shocking. I think ford tried turbocharging it which made it worse...

Ken.

Stuck in a jam last week behind a juke and it nearly made me vomit having to look at it. Never had I wanted anyone to cut me up so bad in my life.

wandererz

I've rented lots of cheap cars before, especially in Spain & the UK. Mainly Fords, Opels & Hyundais (Fiesta's, Focus, Astra, i130, even a Fiat 500).

Never have i hated a vehicle so much as the Toyota Yaris i was presented with by enterprise car rental at Dublin Airport.

It was just for a trip from Dublin to Clonmel and back on the same day. What a shi*ty car, what a shi*ty experience. Never again!

job seeker

wandererz wrote: »

I've rented lots of cheap cars before, especially in Spain & the UK. Mainly Fords, Opels & Hyundais (Fiesta's, Focus, Astra, i130, even a Fiat 500).

Never have i hated a vehicle so much as the Toyota Yaris i was presented with by enterprise car rental at Dublin Airport.

It was just for a trip from Dublin to Clonmel and back on the same day. What a shi*ty car, what a shi*ty experience. Never again!

Sh*ty car. In what way?

lanos

wandererz wrote: »

I've rented lots of cheap cars before, especially in Spain & the UK. Mainly Fords, Opels & Hyundais (Fiesta's, Focus, Astra, i130, even a Fiat 500).
Never have i hated a vehicle so much as the Toyota Yaris i was presented with by enterprise car rental at Dublin Airport.

yes but your experience of driving hire cars would not tell you much about the cars reliability
what were your last 3 owned cars and did u like them or not ?

simdan

marklazarcovic wrote:

nissan leaf ... awful

Wow, you must not have ever driven one.. It's one of the best value, fun to drive and nippy cars you can buy on the market. Nowhere near the worst car ever.. Silly statement really

Firewalkwithme

job seeker wrote: »

Sh*ty car. In what way?

Someone had taken a **** in it.

That aside, if Lada are going to be mentioned, let's not forget about the wonderful export from Poland, the FSO 125, the elegant Polonez and the sturdy pick up truck with the optional fibreglass cover that sort of made it kinda look like it was a bit like a jeep but not really...

The root of all these horrors was Fiat though so perhaps they should take all the credit for being the pile of crap that the ugly weeds grew from.

rebel.ranter

Only car I would agree with so far as being terrible was the Austin Maestro. Everything breaks on them, they were unreliable, brakes were crap, ugly, dangerously slow, especially diesel.
A friend of mine who had one (and a Montego!) was looking at picking up an Austin Metro with 4k miles on it. It was going cheap. He asked his friend that was running the local Rover dealer at the time if they were any good especially if this one was a good one with 4k mikes. His response was 4,000 miles? These yokes are shagged at 400 miles!
I don't know what his obsession was at the time with Rovers, he bought and sold cars for a living so it didn't make sense!

The other cars mentioned in the thread so far seem to be judged on appearance only (except maybe the Renaults). The worst car ever built surely has to be a failure on many levels.

ra0044

jca wrote: »

Quickly followed by the Renault 9 another piece of junk. But I think you're right, the 11 was downright awful.[/quote


I had a Renault 11 TXE 1.7 and loved it and had very little trouble with it compared to all of my friends who had crazy amounts of trouble from various cars of the same vintage.

I am going to say the Daewoo Nubira has to be the biggest pile of dung ever made. Bloody thing was forever off the road and the interior trim rattled and squeaked like it was infested with mice. That was If it didn't fall off when you slammed a door.

Speedsie

Yes to Austin maestro, can I add the Simca 1100 to the mix?

Freddiestar

How's this for ugly

blue5000

In my driving/owning experience worst was a renault 18, from 'local' knowledge renault megane. But if there was an award for worst car ever I reckon the maestro deserves it. Someone start a pole of the 6 that get a lot of mentions on this thread please.

my3cents

An old one, Austin Ambassador, very poor drive, steering was like an after thought, you steered it thought about it and then decided it might like to go the same way you were pointing the wheels.

Brian Scan

ken wrote: »

Stuck in a jam last week behind a juke and it nearly made me vomit having to look at it. Never had I wanted anyone to cut me up so bad in my life.

Perhaps you take things a little too seriously.

Buona Fortuna

I'm surprised - maybe I'm just tf old - that no one has mentioned

Austin All Aggro
Hillman Avenger
Austin Princess (from the 70s not so much the original beasts)
In fact anything British Leyland made tbh.

Datsun Sunny
When the Jap cars first started to be bought in any numbers they were awful.

Wibbs

Freddiestar wrote: »

How's this for ugly

Aye FS, but I'll see your vintage eyesore and raise you the Skoda Roomster



Currently available and pretty well reviewed. Some even praise the "style" Clearly people with dark glasses, white sticks and labradors. There isn't a single line on that car that matches another. It looks like a cut and shut containing three different already ugly cars. Joke is the rest of the range look OK. Nothing high style or anything, but presentable looking autos. The Roomster(even the bloody name…) is pure eye vomit IMH and it beggars belief someone would walk across a forecourt and purposely pay money for such a thing. *shudder*

Buona Fortuna wrote:

anything British Leyland made tbh.

Datsun Sunny
When the Jap cars first started to be bought in any numbers they were awful.

+1 and QFT. The Datsuns were cheap, reliable and good on petrol, but my god you could just about see them rusting away with the naked eye.

Nekarsulm

Funny enough, I had a Montego. Fine old float of a barge. Body was very solidly built. Door trim would come loose and the dash warped , but the biggest hassle was the metric size tyres. Expensive and hard removed. B Series engine and a Jetta gearbox.
BL had a habit of letting the customer do the development testing .

ishotjr2

Agree 100%, Renault 11, no car has ever made me want to find the team who designed it and express my contempt for their efforts in various mediums.

Lets put the starter motor here..... Bet they will never find that, haha lets make it such as you have to take the engine to do just about anything!

Special Circumstances

Fun fact: The cut and shut roomster is actually made of the reject pieces from the vw team that "designed" the scirocco.

City rover gets a nod from me. Although the PT cruiser is nasty too. To see one turned into a stretch limo is interesting and dangerous... it's hard to laugh and puke at the same time.

The Chrysler neon was briefly available here and lived on for another while as some model of Proton didn't it?

Last model Escort?

my3cents

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Fun fact: The cut and shut roomster is actually made of the reject pieces from the vw team that "designed" the scirocco.

City rover gets a nod from me. Although the PT cruiser is nasty too. To see one turned into a stretch limo is interesting and dangerous... it's hard to laugh and puke at the same time.

The Chrysler neon was briefly available here and lived on for another while as some model of Proton didn't it?

Last model Escort?

Had one, apart from the sills rusting out they were very reliable. My old 1.4l petrol is still going I gave it to someone 2 and half years ago with 170,000 miles on the clock they drove it until the NCT ran out then sold it to to another guy who I know who did a lot of work on the sills and is still driving it with 200K + on the clock, no major work ever done on the engine.

jimgoose

Special Circumstances wrote: »

...Last model Escort?

The "Abandon Ship!!" rebadged Orion? My dad had one, solid enough bit of kit. It got enough abuse.

kay 9

Range rover should be here on reliability issues

Sh1tbag OToole

Tartan Prancer

Junkyard Tom

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

IWhen the Jap cars first started to be bought in any numbers they were awful.

My folks had a brown Mazda 323 (I think it was a 323) that we used to watch the road whiz by through a rust hole in the floor, early 1980's.

Jesus, when I think of it, my folks probably had one of the worst collections of cars ever. They had a Simca whose front left wheel flew off turning a corner when we were being brought to school, a crumbling Mazda, a BMW that lasted a couple of weeks, a Hillman Hunter (I think), a 7 seater Peugeot with an 8-track player that lasted a couple of months, a Ford Orion that needed more water than a horse and that's just what I can remember!

The Sidewards Man

A lada but apparently in other countries its a gem.

166man

Without a doubt the stats Safari gets a vote from me.


Never experienced a car trying be a car/jeep worse than this machine. Utterly woeful in every way