What was the worst car you ever owned?

[yas786]

Of the 30 odd cars I've owned the worst would have to be a Ford Festiva. It was literally possessed.

[Wolfgang]

Thankfully I didn't own it a friend did. The offending article was an 86 (there abouts) Ford Laser. How that thing made it through rego, not to mention worked for so many years was beyond belief. It survived rarely being serviced, was stolen (why?) and recovered three times (on one occasion it was found a block away a week later by one of her housemates). It had a different key for each lock and the ignition, it felt like it was going to disintegrate at any moment but the wretched thing just kept going, even made it to Brisbane and back a few times. It did the world a favor and finally died last year (hooray!).

[ope126]

Worst by a country mile; 2004 Holden ZC Vectra CDXi. Nothing but problems...

Lost count on the amount of times it went back to the dealer for "warranty" related issues.

However it looked great, was featured packed and went hard!

Never again for me!!!

[mfl]

Owned by family members:
Datsun 120Y, a sedan (auto), a coupe (auto) and a panel van (manual).
- no power, no brakes, no class, no anything.

by me:
Subaru Liberty Heritage (gen4), so much promise, totally destroyed by gutless 2.5 and 4 speed auto.
only car I ever sold in less than 18 months, just hated driving it.

work car:

2008 Toyota Camry - like driving an appliance, no character at all, nothing wrong with it and nothing right with it. only car I had which I wanted to push off a cliff, thankfully I didn't own it.

[tessie]

Not owned by me, but my Dad. It was very reliable but deliberately engineered to be the most horrible thing on God's earth to drive.
......a 1980's something Nissan Skyline, the square shaped thing. #%*@* horrible!

[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