Out of curiosity. Personally I have a passion for cars, and not being in Europe, Alfas are hard to come by, so those aren't going to be cars i'll drive soon. I'll say though the worst i've ever driven has to be either a Toyota Corolla or maybe that Astro.. Yeah American cars, and tiny souless japanese cars are outright miserable.
Late 80's Lada something or other hatchback. We had it at the bottom of one of the fields and when I was 9 my dad taught me how to drive it. I remember thinking how awesome it was until I actually learnt how to drive on the road. I went back to it and found the gearbox was like stirring porridge and the breaks did as much good as someone trying to blow against the car to make it stop. (Fixed, I think it was a Niva)
Actually now that I think of it, any 70-90s automatic car that I've ever driven was pretty miserable.
My old Astra 1.4 once it started to go wrong. Complete POS, was glad to get rid of it. I had more fun in my older Clio MK1.
not technically a car but the worst thing i've ever driven was a Ford Escort van. I love driving but the few months I drove this thing for actually made me not want to drive any more! It was a normally asthmatic diesel, it was supposed to have 74bhp but if it had 50 it was doing well, it could barely pull its self along with out the extra weight of cable and tools etc. It didn't have power steering either so was a nightmare to park (did make my arms bigger though). The interior was horrible too (the rear fog light switch was easy to knock on accidentally as you got in/ out and there was only a crappy little warning light on the switch itself out of my field of vision so the amount of time I was driving around with the rear fog light on was stupid). It wasn't even that practical as it was a pain to get any thing in and out of. My best memories of it are getting out of it at the end of the day and in to my Turbo diesel 306, I would practically write it off every day after getting so used to driving the van all day I'd hurtle off up the drive as it accelerated so much better than the van then I'd practically spin it 180 degrees as I yanked the steering wheel and the power steering did it's job. It got to the point where I refused to drive it any more I hated it that much!
I had a courtesy car from the Nissan garage a couple of years ago - it was a Note, I think. It might be good for driving around a city, but was absolutely awful at driving around the mountainous countryside of Wales where I live. There was one (not particularly steep) hill that took the car so long to get up, it would have been easier to get out and push. The whole car just felt ... plasticky.
Try some of the older Fords or Dodges, good lord those things felt like tupperware boxes on wheels. If only minivans weren't so damn bad to drive I wouldn't drive one. But a Sienna compared to even the hefty mustang is a night/day thing.
Hahaha I remember the exact opposite of my Clio. Four people in it going up a very steep hill in north Wales with a sheer cliff on one side and the bloody thing started wheel spinning up ront from lack of grip. Fun fun fun! My asshole could have been used as pencil sharpener.
Mitsubishi Colt. Of course, it's also the best car I've driven in seeing as it was my instructor's and I haven't driven since passing my test. That said though it felt like a very nice car.
Three for me. 1. HM Ambassador - it was just crap. Huge beast of a car, pitiful power and torque, mechanical brakes, steering rack prone to just falling apart, which means you have a dead car doing 60kmph under you and you have no choice but to stop wherever you are and find out how to get home. 2. Tata Indica - did most of my 'learning' on this. Just falls apart after a few thousand clicks. 3. Mahindra Scorpio - you would think that a big SUV-esque car that they keep showing at European auto shows would be at least half decent. And you'd be right. But the non-decent half is really terrible. The gearbox is especially useless. You have no way of knowing what gear you've shifted into besides lifting off the clutch and praying that the car doesn't kill itself because you went from 4th to 1st doing 80kmph.
Ford Sierra. Nothing better than a worn-out rear-wheel-drive to keep you spinning where you don't want to. The only car I ever was afraid in.
Chrysler 300C that the hire car company foisted on me when I went to Florida a few years back. The thing didn't turn - it banked. I remember coming off the freeway somewhere, and it had one of the cloverleaf off ramps. I swear it was almost on it's door handles as we went round the corner... And that was at about 30-35 mph. Shocking. It seemed to have the stoping distance of an ocean liner as well. And it was pretty much brand new!
I suppose in most ways the worst car I've ever driven was my first car - Mk.1 Fiat Punto. But although it was technically rubbish it really was a great deal of fun. So I'd probably say the worst car I've ever driven was an automatic Mk.1 Ford Focus. The Focus is a brilliant car, everything about the manual is brilliant imo, but the automatic gearbox was like a massive turd on a sponge cake and just ruined the whole thing. Every time you lift off the throttle over 30 it instantly changed up to 5th, so all engine braking was lost and you then had to wait for it to kick down a couple of times again to get moving... So that made country roads a miserable experience instead of a joy.
Rover metro, tell me someone has tried to drive one of these. It was like a tin can, could reshape it every day if you wanted to. Wasn't very re-assuring heading towards a bollard.
Mk6 Fiesta. Mainly because I have too much leg to actually drive it without the steering wheel digging in just past my knees. ..Admittedly my driving experience is limited to a mini bike thing when I was 6/7, Mk6 Fiesta, Mk7 Fiesta and a Mk1 Focus. I like my Focus, and I liked the Mk7. Which is pretty much the same size as the mk1 focus.
