NewNiceMrMe Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Hang on a minute. How come I get my new user title yet Mac gets away with owning (company car, whatever) a sodding Vitara!!!!! That's got to be worth a new title for him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 I can't find my horrid X Type. I suspect it's on a hard drive elsewhere in the house, or perhaps in the office. However, it looked nigh on identical to this, albeit with the mesh sports grille on mine. It was the worst car I have ever owned by a margin so great that even a Morris Ital 1.7 HLS was far superior (and it is a slur on the Ital to mention it in the same breath as the dreaded X Type of doom). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mort Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Hang on a minute.How come I get my new user title yet Mac gets away with owning (company car, whatever) a sodding Vitara!!!!! That's got to be worth a new title for him? Some aint got a title yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Why do I suspect you'll regret saying that Mort? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Naming Stig moves in mysterious ways... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snail Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 My first car was a dreadful "Champagne Beige" 1.0L Austin Metro. Loved it, till i realised it had a flintstones-esque hole under the drivers feet. It failed the MOT dismally, due to basically having no floor pan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Fortunately I've not owned a bad car, it occurred to me recently I've never put a car through an MOT either! I've borrowed plenty of bad ones from work - a shockingly bad Xsara that had been abused for 80k miles before I drove it to Brussels and back, the biggest surprise was that it didn't fall apart during the journey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mort Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Flynn still owns his.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shao_khan Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Is that a Shogun Pinin?I thought they were meant to be quite good? The Pinin Evo always looked like a right laugh! Yeah its a Pinin - and it was very good around the farm, across the fields but it was only one step up from a defender for road use, also the Nav was useless, it had no boot space, ours had an issue causing a rear wheel to lock causing some unusual behaviour if you were cornering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 ours had an issue causing a rear wheel to lock causing some unusual behaviour if you were cornering. Unusual behaviour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mort Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Renault 14. Worst piece of sh*t I ever owned. 3 months in total til I killed it and sold it for scrap for £45.Hideous, hideous piece of crap. That really is horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 That really is horrible. It really was. The one I had was light metallic green. Seats were nylon in pale beigey brown. I feel sick thinking about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldavo69 Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Probably a 1.6 N reg Mondeo LX in White that was my first car. I had it about 4 months until I got a brand new company car so left it on a neighbour's drive for a further 6 months. The handbrake locked on so after jump starting it I just nailed it in reverse and after 5 yards of black lines across her White concrete drive everything loosened up again. I bought it from the father-in-law's milkman for £750 and sold it back to him for £600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biscuits Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Lots of dodgy company cars... my first was a Rover 420SLi saloon. Only good thing was it was a 2.0 when everyone else at my level had a 1.6GL Cavalier (all were burgundy!)... oh and it had a car phone, remember them!? [ATTACH]43121[/ATTACH] Had several head gaskets from abuse and would go through front tyres every 6,000 miles I've always managed to wangle okay cars really... very lucky/spoilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jez Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Mine was a D reg Fiat Regata 90, I bought it 3 months old at auction for 50% of what it cost new but it still wasn't worth that ! every time it rained the footwell would fill up with water from a really badly fitted windscreen. I ended up trading it down to an old nackered T reg 2.0 Ghia Capri which was way more fun ! Stock pic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theduisbergkid Posted April 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Regatta ! Can't remember the last time I saw one of those ! Probably for good reason... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 I've had a few bad 'uns, but the worst by a country mile was a 1983 Austin Maestro 1.6HLS in MrMe beige. Not dissimilar to the one on this hilarious web page: Maestro HLS By the way, MrMe may think the worst car he's ever owned was that X-type, but some of us know better. Come on MrMe, show the nice people a picture or two of your MGF... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanG Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Explains why British car manufacturing died the death. Electrical faults galore, rusty panels on a 3 year old car, panel gaps that you could see daylight through, mysterious electrical drain that killed even new batteries over 2 weeks that the dealer said was ‘normal’. ‘Emergency’ door lock that pulled out on the key. ‘Self levelling’ suspension that didn’t. Cheap leather that wore very quickly. Wood that wasn’t wood, cheap plastic that was. Only bit that was sound was the engine - it was made by BMW though – fuel system leaked diesel however. Dealers who stole the tow hook! Wanted one for years, was hugely disappointed when I did own one, will never own another one. Gone, and forgotten thankfully – what a fecking heap. Will add that it was good in the snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theduisbergkid Posted April 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 I've had a few bad 'uns, but the worst by a country mile was a 1983 Austin Maestro 1.6HLS in MrMe beige.Not dissimilar to the one on this hilarious web page: Maestro HLS Mike, thank you so much post posting that link, I was convinced it was a spoof at first, comedy gold ! Love the Maestro, shed-tastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 "MAESTRO 1.6HLS More power, more sophistication." Hey, what about the Maestro Turbo. In white. With red seatbelts. Yee bloody ha :D Actually, sorry, no. It was sh*t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theduisbergkid Posted April 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Extensive undersealing and the use of wax injection techniques after the car has been painted have made it possible for Austin Rover to issue a 6-year Supershield corrosion warranty with every new Maestro. Apart from representing excellent long-term insurance (and, ultimately, a high re-sale price), this is enduring proof of the quality which is built into these miracle family cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Miracle? MIRACLE? It was a bloody miracle they lasted more than 6 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Maestro turbo? Pah, I had a red MG Montego Turbo, fast as feck that was, didn't handle well though, torque steer was biblical. It killed itself one day, saved me having to put it out of it's misery, it wouldn't switch off one day, so I tried to stall it, and it ate the clutch instantly, then sat there revving it's tits off until the engine gave up, and spat it's contents onto the road, there was so much smoke no one could see the car, or me laughing at it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Oh the joy of the days of utterly sh*t 70s and 80s car building Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Those Maestro Turbos were fast as feck! For a young lad getting a lift to work (me), it was great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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