What was the worst car you ever owned?

[GOLFBALLS]

Haha. Lovin this!
Mine was my first car, a '86ish Mazda 323. Bright yellow, used more oil than fuel (seriously), reversing was difficult due to oil smoke haze impairing my vision, then one day a mate was driving it and i stood there looking at it and noticed the drivers side front corner was clearly sloping down lower than the left side.

It'd been in a shunt and was repaired on the dodge in someones backyard.

Sold it to a couple of African guys down the street for $500. I told them the issues but they didnt seem to mind.
It died a month later. I warned them to keep the oil up to it. They didnt.

Worst car growing up... Mum's '87 Camira. what a pile of dung

[greasykitchen]

Worst car growing up... Mum's '87 Camira. what a pile of dung

I'd agree with this. My folks had one for over 10 years. Bought it with low mileage, traded it on a near new Corolla last year. Pretty reliable but terrible build quality - just about everything in the interior was broken or not working. Fuel gauge was wildly inaccurate, as was the speedo. Temp gauge worked sometimes. Largest turning circle ever known on a car that size. Still, it was a convenient run-about when my car was being serviced and when I broke my toe (couldn't drive a manual with a broken left big toe).

My brother's first car was a 1969-ish Hillman Hunter, eventually known as the Anti-Christ (as in the jeep from The Gods Must Be Crazy). Broke down on each of the first three days of ownership (and many times subsequently). The rear axle was changed over at some point. Family legend has it that my brother and my dad could remove and replace the head in their sleep because they'd done it so often (including one night on the front lawn). My brother left it abandonded in my parents' driveway for years before it was taken to a wrecker.

In the early/mid '80s my parents bought a Mazda 929L - an little known model and with good reason. No power steering, heavy body, underpowered. Ugly as hell (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mazda_929L_Front.jpg). It blew a head gasket during a family trip to Melbourne - fun times. Same fate as the Hillman.

In the Impossible to Kill Despite All Efforts category is the family Datsun 180B wagon. By the time I learnt to drive in it, it had water in thr fuel, fuel in the water, bald tires, spark plugs that were changed every month or two, the auto choke would rev the engine high when cold (making my mum look like a hoon) and was mostly rust held together with a horrible green paint. But it kept on going and going.

My other brother also owned 2 Datsun 1600s - a sedan that he wrote off (also left in the driveway for years), and a wagon that was stolen.

I've only ever owned VWs - my '72 Beetle kept on going despite the rust hole in the floor and the knackered steering box.

[gregozedobe]

My worst car was a 1970's Alfa Romeo Berlina 2.0

Great to drive, but absolutely terrible to own. I think it went close to me spending more time working on it to fix things than I did actually driving it. Totally and consistently unreliable, and it was a relief to finally sell the damm thing after 18 months (probably only actually going for 3 weeks in that whole time).

What a contrast to the 1971 Corolla we had at the same time - it just kept going no matter what, and was super cheap motoring at a time when I couldn't afford to spend a lot of $$$ fixing cars (see Alfa above) due to 17.75% interest rates on home mortgage.

Best car ever - current Skoda 2.0 RS

[GTREA]

You might think my worst car would be my first car in 1987....a 4 cyl VC Commodore 'L'

But I loved it at the time so can't hate it.

......infact I can't hate anything I've owned.

[Cookie28]

^ my mum and step dad say the same thing, they've never really hated the cars they've owned, except my mum hated a red Volvo 850R she had for a few years because she's had more flat tires with that car than she's had on the rest combined haha. And the fact she scraped the front everywhere she went. She just doesn't know how to drive a low car with low profile tires

[killingwithasmile]

my worst was my 2nd ever car, an RB gemini, what a pile of junk it was but to its credit never had any major issues, outside of fuel (which i dont think ever had more than $10 in it at a time) i think i only ever paid $69 for a midas service. It smoked like a steam train, the interior was made of shade cloth and coat hangers, pulled super hard to the left when on the brakes, made a horrible droning noise over 40km/h that would temporarily go away if you jerked the steering wheel like weaving cones, suspension consisted of marshmallow and broomsticks, i locked myself out of and proceeded to break into it close to 500 000 times and ran out of fuel close to a million time. had it for 3 years then sold it to a mate for $500 and it broke down after a week..



the car that should have been my worst but was one of my favourites, 1983 suzuki super carry, changed its own oil on the driveway once a week, sounded like a motorbike without an exhaust, started to smell of burning oil over 85km/h, but i could also sleep in it anywhere, it had $2000 worth of coilovers installed by previous owner, ssr reverse mesh wheels and adorning fans everywhere it went. same story, sold it to a friend of a friend and they killed it

[GRN_VAGN]

had a 82 gemini, it died after 2 hours of owning it Blew a headgasket.
Had a 76 gemini coupe, loved it, but spent more on it then it was worth
All my golfs i like, but they seem to spend more time in shed due to stupid problem, and i mean stupid like a bung lifter, or fuse box cracks it, or something small and stupid, but takes hours to fit

[djorkboy]

^ my mum and step dad say the same thing, they've never really hated the cars they've owned, except my mum hated a red Volvo 850R she had for a few years because she's had more flat tires with that car than she's had on the rest combined haha. And the fact she scraped the front everywhere she went. She just doesn't know how to drive a low car with low profile tires

I was absolutely set on getting an 850R before I bought my Bora, but I couldn't find an 850R wagon with reasonable mileage and the 850 sedan is just awful looking. In the end a relative gave me a chunk of cash and I was able to move up to a slightly higher bracket and get a Bora 4motion.

[ryana89]

Worst car I've ever been in, would be a tie between both a 95 1.5L Festiva (Auto) and a 05 1.6 Kia Rio (Auto).
Both absolutly gutless, senile, cheap, Korean tin cans!

[Cookie28]

I really liked the 850R because it was red and fast... And she owned it when I was 2-4 years old, so that's all that really mattered to me with cars at that age haha

[Stiggy_21]

89 mk2 16v.. lol jokes, the only car i've owned.
worst car i've been in.... my sisters old U11 Nissan Bluebird.
noisy, extremely bad handling and ride. just dreadfull.. what do you expect for $500. ended up going to the scrap heap

[Chuppamello]

Ford meteor lol bought it for 500 bux

Me n my mates used to sit it on the hill until we saw sparks..then a mate sold it to his aunty for a grand

That's scum

[Blitzen]

I really liked the 850R because it was red and fast... And she owned it when I was 2-4 years old, so that's all that really mattered to me with cars at that age haha

Holy **** cookie, how old are you?? I remember Brockie racing them at the Melbourne GP in 97 I think, and I was 16 then!!

[Creniac]

1976 ford escort: never forget it, thought it was the fastest thing when I was 16! specially with the 10" sub and sounds in it!
1982 Honda Civic: 5 speed WOW! rusty as hell but never failed me... then I found a.....
1977 Ford escort sport: Ohhhh yeah, twin throat webber! now this was the fastest thing!...... NOT!
1987 Toyota Trueno: 2 door coupe with digital dash!!! Whoa! I was the man! 1600cc of twin cam 4AGE engine! thought it was fast!
1993 Nissan Primera GT-E: Wow, UK built nissan GT....this was actually fun! handled very well... then the real boy came out in me!
1990 Nissan Pulsar GTi-R: Loved this car! 165kw of 4WD, 2 door hatch fun! used to eat up Holden SS V8's on track days!
1997 Nissan Primera: Family came along so pulsar had to go.... CVT transmission that failed!! sold this real quick after that!
2005 Nissan Navara: company supplied car so caned the ass off it.... good tower though.
2009 VW Jetta: loved the Jetta until the DSG failed....... brought a boat so needed a tower anyway so now have the........
2009 VW Tiguan: best machine I ever had!....... but will never forget the GTi-R.

[djorkboy]

Holy **** cookie, how old are you?? I remember Brockie racing them at the Melbourne GP in 97 I think, and I was 16 then!!

OK, now you are making me feel old, I remember that race, I was 27!