Worst car you've ever driven
 

Pretty simple, what's the worst car you have ever driven and why? Include a pic if you can google one!

86 Olds Firenza (not mine in the pic but looked almost as bad)

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Was a complete piece of crap. Shifter was mush and clutch was awful. So bad my wife (girlfriend at the time) could not drive it.

I have driven many bad cars just in this year alone but if I had to choose one I would say a 1996 Chev Lumina APV, It smelled of piss, 4 wheels with shifted belts yes all 4 at once, windows all stuck closed, and full of sticky nasty crummy mess that 4 children have left after 5 months since last cleaning. this is a customers car i had in about 2 weeks ago for a driveability problem..... NO S**T

smart car...i cringe when i think about their shifting

E39 BMW 523i for starters the car was extremely underpowered it was a 2.3 liter inline six in a 5 series. The schockabsorber were gone and wen you hit a bump you would be feeling it for the next 5 minutes which was the best part cause the travel this car had was unbelievable I know this car is not bad but the one i drove was just in horrible condition I still own a bmw e34 530i with a little 3 liter V8

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Oh man, my college car was the worst. It was a 1974 Alfa Romeo Berlina.

"Features" included:

* 260,000 miles
* painted three different colors
* often needed to be push-started since the starter was AFU
* no A/C
* oil fumes in car
* exhaust fumes in car
* antifreeze fumes in car
* gearbox fumes in car
* burned wire smell in car
* junk gearbox
* singing rear diff
* crap tires
* junk suspension
* sh*t electrics
* was hit in @ss and had a tucked rear
* sawed through the radiator with the front core support
* once locked the steering column while I drove down the highway
* once threw the alternator charge wire on the road far from civilization
* once lost the Pittman arm while driving
* once spit the gearbox drain plug on the highway
* falling headliner
* collapsed exhaust heated the floor and melted my shoes
* once measured on-highway cabin noise at 102dBA
* no radio

Man what a neodymium babe magnet. Too bad the car and the babes had the same polarity (ReeeeeeJECTED!)

88 tyota camery. bought it for $300 had 350 000 km on it. Had to use self expanding foam to seal the holes in the trunk. heater only workedd if you hit the dash really hard all the time. horn did not work heater finally failer window wipers broke and then fan bleew then only one light would work tires were bald and 4th and 5th gear did not work. It was great. And I had that for 1 year. got rid of it only 3 years ago.

Tie between an 02 Pontiac Grand Am (epically bad on every level) and a 01 Chrysler Sebring convertible.

The only thing more staggeringly mind bending than how either of these cars made it to production is that people actually bought them.

93' Thunderbird or my old 85' Newyorker. The NewYorker had so many flaws, but it was soo awesome. Still awful though.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...orker-side.jpg

too bad there isn't a prize for this category ... how about a 1979 Ford Pinto. I used to drive it back and forth to Newark, NJ so I didn't have to worry about anybody stealing it.

I'm a pretty young guy, so I haven't gotten the opportunity to drive some really old beat up cars. I did, however, use to valet cars at a hotel, so I've seen some pretty nasty ones. If we're talking about newer cars, a Chrysler Sebring convertible takes the cake. Funkiest drive ever. Not to mention 90% of the trunks don't close if you use the soft top too often.

I also drove a 2001 Honda Accord coupe once. This wasn't your average Accord though. The steering wheel was missing a few buttons. Gas gauge didn't work. No A/C controls. Radio had a smashed screen. Worst body kit on the planet. Did I mention the doors didn't lock from the outside and the door handles also don't work? The guy who owned that car ironically came to the hotel with a car full of attractive girls. Who knows.

Gah!

My step dad had a 78 Caddy, which was the first thing I ever drive. After my first drive, he gave me crap for not driving it well. Like anyone could just jump in a boat like this and be richard petty.
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How do they shift?

Not too bad for a worst, at least it looks good from the outside :D

yeah man i guess i havent had the opportunity to drive a bad car but yeah the e39 bodies are my favorites i dont like the bangle butt on new bimmers. but yeah that was what surprised me the most the outside look decent but the drive was atrocious

I also remember when i had to drive a wrecked e60 M5 at the bmw body and felt like wow this car was not meant to be in this condition here are some pics i took. Apparently what happened to the car was that the owner lost control and hit a pole in a parking lot.

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^ Heart-breaking!

1970something baby blue pinto (ugh!) My wife and I left our wedding in it 25 years ago on March 3rd. July of that year ('84), I was fortunate enough to get a great job and bought a brand new 1984 Honda Prelude. Now that was a great, first new car! Kept it for 10 years and over 100k miles.

Sure sounds like good ol' Newark to me! :ugh2:
Smart choice btw... would've done the same!

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LMAO I remember you telling me about that last one. Mine would have to be my friends chevy cavalier 1997 this thing leaks like a sing when it rains you have a swimming pool inside. NO JOKE also the streaming shakes like a wheel is about to fall off.

I am about to cry after seeing that M% like that.

I'm a car guy. I've never driven a bad car -- always manage to find a way to have fun no matter what I'm driving! That's how it should be.

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Back from the dead!

I was jealous of all you guys with your old threads coming back.

For me it was a 1981 Dodge Omni O24 hatchback. The stock car was a piece of crap. No balls, cheap plastic (this was the time of K Cars too). Shelby helped them develop a race model that seemed to do fairly well but I was forever traumatized with that O24.

1984 Mazda 626. It had more dings, dents, and problem than I thought possible on a car. The color was a rainbow of em, Had everything from pink to black, brown to **** copper. Clutch was constantly slipping oh and did I mention it had NO A/C in one of Texas' hottest summers on record. Yea kinda suckd, googled it and here she is
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/681...84mazda626.jpg

Fiat Panda... I drove this project car around Crete for a weekend. I never felt more vulnerable in my life...I feel more protected on my Harley.

http://www.forum-auto.com/uploads/20...0469_panda.jpg

1972 VW Super Beetle. Friend was drinking so I drove his car. Seating position was cocked to the side, brakes had to be pumped to work, no power, not the easiest car to change gears. It actually sounded really nice though, 1 of the better sounding beetles I have ever heard.

LMAO! :icon18: Sounds like you had a real prize there, one that could give my '88 Thunderturd a run for it's money. I'll see if I can dig up a photo and come back with a description.

Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, I give you my 1988 Ford ThunderTurd (aka the B.W.D.P.O.D.S - Big White Dehydrated Piece of Dog Sh!t):

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I had the misfortune of purchasing this vehicle when the clutch throwout bearing my 1986 Toyota Camry gave up at 196,000 miles and I decided that was it. In 20-20 hindsight, this was likely one of my poorest decisions in life. The BWDPODS featured:

-Total instability in wet weather, which could be as mild as 99% humidity. If a sharp turn was attempted at more than 10 mph, one could expect either complete loss of control, or the car to continue moving forward and hit the curb.

- The car had one side mirror. I think the Ford accountants figured they'd save about $2 per car if they omitted the passenger side mirror. This really didn't help because the blind spots were terrible.

- A horrible shaking that occured at 65 MPH, as the resonance frequency of the vehicle was at this exact speed. It was enough to shake the fillings in ones teeth, and worry that parts would fall off the car if this speed was constantly maintained. This meant that on the interstate one was either constantly speeding or always being passed. I later learned that this particular Ford engine was born a V8, Ford needed a V6, so they chopped two cylinders off their V8 and externally balanced the frankensteined engine. The correct way to engineer this would have been to create a new V6 or use an existing V6 or other six cylinder engine.

- Ford didn't joke when they wrote N-O-R-M-A-L across the entire range of the coolant temperature gauge. My experience was that the space between the L and orange/red zone was where this car most frequently liked to operate. It would often overheat, despite the fact that every component in the cooling system was replaced within a year of ownership of the car. My favorite experience was taking a short cut through one of low-income sections of Baltimore and watching the temperature gauge creep into the orange zone, and wondering if I was going to break down.

- This vehicle like to eat alternators for lunch. Three in one year, to be exact.

- The Ford automatic transmission made every shift an adventure, as it often resulted in a severe jerk as the car clunked into the next gear.

- The doors were so long and heavy that they sagged downwards when open, and the sheer length of them made getting out of the vehicle in a parking lot a wonderful challenge in contortionism.

- The digital dashboard was so hard to read in the daytime that it was completely useless. Shortly after I purchased the vehicle, a $5 relay failed such that whenever the headlights were turned on, the dashboard lights shorted out. The dashboard literally had to be completely taken apart to get to the relay (which would have cost about $300 in 1998 dollars). I was a poor college student at the time, so I drove at night with absolutely no clue what speed I was going, but at least I could see where I was going.

- The Coup de Grace was one snowy winter morning I could not get out of my development to get to work. I was at the bottom of a minor slope (maybe 2% grade and about 200 feet). I got about 3/4 up the hill, gently coaxing the car up (alternating between light throttle in low gear, reverse, and doing it over again, inch by inch) before the car stalled. It turns out that the valvetrain was beginning to fail (probably due to the high tempertures this engine liked to run at). Compression in each cylinder was slowly deteriorating. I think by the time I donated the car it was equivalent to a 3 cylinder engine.

So in the case of this car "Quality was Job None," and yes, at least they circled the problem.

I didn't even know what this one was, had to look it up, lol :ugh2:



You might have one of the worst looking here.

Aww, I was actually looking at getting an old beetle.

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A Cadillac Hearse! No back seat at all! Smells of to many flowers, and Pine or Walnut. Lonely, dark! Sitting in the drivers seat, the hood looks like you are on approach, to land on an Air Craft Carrier!

^ rofl

well for me it was a Volkswagen..:icon18:

Hands down a Jeep.

...? what kind? year? reason?

the worst car i ever drove was also the first car i ever owned.
it was a 1980 dodge colt that i bought in 1994 for 300 dollars. it had 180K miles on it. the only thing that worked was the engine and drive train. i learned more about automotive repair in the 2 years i had that car than ever.

the worst part was that the heater and blower did not work.. i lived in rural wyoming at the time and not having heat in a wyoming winter is pretty scary. good thing it was FWD.

Volkswagen Fox! heres the pic.. its 1980 model my first car actually a second hand one bought by my father..

1988 Ford Tempo. Paid $800 for it and it caught on fire a week later.

http://www.thesupercars.org/wp-conte...Ford-Tempo.JPG