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The 2019 Renault Kadjar.

And any Ford that isn't a Ford Transit. The Transit was/is pinnacle Ford, the rest is just shit that dissolves at the first sight of rain. Yet someone how people shoot their load over them and are willing to mortgage the house to buy one.

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1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

....The car I most dread seeing in front of me is the Honda Spaz, always driven by someone at least 107 years old at 27 MPH everywhere

I thought it was the (elderly) Nissan Micra driver who had a tendency to cut you up and then immediately slow down to about 27mph?

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45 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I thought it was the (elderly) Nissan Micra driver who had a tendency to cut you up and then immediately slow down to about 27mph?

Near me drivers of the K11s have a habit of driving down motorway sliproads at 40mph then sticking at 50 in the middle lane.

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7 hours ago, vaughant said:

AND also from a drivers stereotype* of perspective, plus my coastal location and the amount of the fucking things everywhere, VW T4/5/6. 

 

I also Grew up in holiday coastal world and these were known locally as wannabe wagons. Universally owned by people who wanted to look like surfers and yet if the surf was actually up and running then there were none of these parked on the front, it was all polos and fiestas. 

Proper king of consumption vehicles. Let’s buy that to make people think we’re cool.

“It’s not a van it’s a lifestyle “ 10 times more despicable than the olli lot. 

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Been all the way through this thread, and I'm surprised I hadn't contributed back then. Cos the funny thing is, my answer is still the same as it would've been.

2CV

Times change, and so have my tastes and therefore likes and dislikes. But no single vehicle of any description evokes such a visceral hatred in me as these. I appreciate the engineering, and the social significance of them to France, and even the racing of them: but...they're the only real reason* I'd buy a cheap Russian tank. And yep, I'd paint a little pictogram of each one destroyed on my turret. Driven over repeatedly or blanket shelled from a mile away, it's all one to me. 

And yes, I have driven one. I hated them before that, but I gave it a chance. For about 10 days iirc, and it couldn't redeem them. 

 

*Unless pissing about on the local fields and beaches and staging a mock invasion counts as 'real'?

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Any stupid SUV/ crossover, 95% are driven by ‘Mums’ or the elderly, parked badly across two spaces or doing 50mph in the middle lane. Invariably they are parked on the road even if a drive is free. All fuck ugly and use far more resources than they need to. Especially when driven by the 95 year old on our estate who should be either be in a micra or not driving at all, but no, he is in an enormous Kia. I know he has been reported after nearly running over a kid but nothing happened.

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Might get some hate for this but here goes:

original mini

VW T2 especially when camper converted

MG B

99% of modern mercedes

most volkswagens......must admit the arteon is a fantastic looking car though

Hyundai i10.......i can't stand those, most likely due to the fact my ex has one

citroen c2

citroen c3 picasso

all current citroens

vauxhall corsa.....for obvious reasons

i'm willing to drive anything, as i enjoy driving different cars

these are the ones which really stand out as cars i'd say i hate

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12 minutes ago, maxxo said:

Might get some hate for this but here goes:

original mini

I have to agree with you. Driven them, fixed them, but they are still hateful, overpriced heaps that many an owner has destroyed a far better and more useful Metro for just because it's got a bigger engine. 

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4 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

I have to agree with you. Driven them, fixed them, but they are still hateful, overpriced heaps that many an owner has destroyed a far better and more useful Metro for just because it's got a bigger engine. 

As much as i like older cars, if i wanted something pretty small just for going round the town the modern panda has my money

i agree the metro is a far superior car in every single way

but then in a weird way i quite like the "modern" mini, i wouldn't really buy one but i vastly prefer it to the original

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3 hours ago, Bren said:

Front wheel drive escorts - save for the XR3 due to its rarity. 

Agree. For 1981 the Mk3 was an OK car. Nowt special but not irredeemably horrid. Trouble is, aside from replacing the CVH with the Zetec around 1991, they didn't really improve it and by the end of production compared to its rivals it still felt like a 1981 car. Mandatory sunroof they all seemed to be fitted with robbed all the headroom. The only one worth owning is the RS1600i.

 

Plus when I first started driving chavs had them (along with Va**hall Novas. Or is it Novae?)

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9 hours ago, scdan4 said:

I also Grew up in holiday coastal world and these were known locally as wannabe wagons. Universally owned by people who wanted to look like surfers and yet if the surf was actually up and running then there were none of these parked on the front, it was all polos and fiestas. 

Proper king of consumption vehicles. Let’s buy that to make people think we’re cool.

“It’s not a van it’s a lifestyle “ 10 times more despicable than the olli lot. 

They need to tax the fuckers when they cross the Tamar. The quantity of disgusting old diesel vans polluting Cornwall in summer is getting ridiculous. T5/6 emmets only actually paddle out when it's 2ft and sunny. They are too busy instagramming coffee when there's actually any waves.

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Probably going to get flamed for this - but Invacars. They would have been acceptable in about 1955 but they should have been completely updated/replaced by 1970.

There were loads of different concepts and designs by the early 70s that could have been used or adapted, or the vast majority of users could have been offered converted Minis or the like. 

The fact that they were still offered to the disabled concurrent to the first era Renault 5, Volkswagen Golf or Ford Fiesta is shameful really. 

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18 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

Probably going to get flamed for this - but Invacars. They would have been acceptable in about 1955 but they should have been completely updated/replaced by 1970.

The model that everyone associates with invacars wasn't even launched until the 70s.  And I completely agree.. they were absolutely awful things.  Many campaigns existed at the time to have them banned and removed from the road.  Rightly so IMO.

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I would normally say there's a positive element to everything, one man's meat etc etc.  But seriously, these things need to get in the sea, every single last one.

Used Peugeot 307 2008 1.6 HDI 196061km Combi | | AAA Auto Export

I had a diesely one identical to that for 6 months when it was less than 5 years old.  It broke constantly, was badly made out of naff, cheap components, cost me over £2k in repairs and other than decent fuel economy had no redeeming features whatsoever.  I traded it in at a huge loss with a DPF failure which cost the garage a fortune to fix, it kept coming back to them for more problems afterwards too.  Maybe it was a Friday afternoon car but honestly I have no idea what I was thinking.  Ghastly.

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55 minutes ago, phil_lihp said:

I would normally say there's a positive element to everything, one man's meat etc etc.  But seriously, these things need to get in the sea, every single last one.

Used Peugeot 307 2008 1.6 HDI 196061km Combi | | AAA Auto Export

I had a diesely one identical to that for 6 months when it was less than 5 years old.  It broke constantly, was badly made out of naff, cheap components, cost me over £2k in repairs and other than decent fuel economy had no redeeming features whatsoever.  I traded it in at a huge loss with a DPF failure which cost the garage a fortune to fix, it kept coming back to them for more problems afterwards too.  Maybe it was a Friday afternoon car but honestly I have no idea what I was thinking.  Ghastly.

My Dad had one of those, absolutely identical to that in silver. I had occasion to use it for about a month when I was between cars and he didn't need it. I'm not used to modern stuff so I was interested to see what it was like besides being unremittingly ugly from every possible angle. Aside from the heated seats (it was a cold winter) and what I regarded as a pretty good sound system (i. e. it had one and it worked) I found it horrible. Dead steering, shit visibility and the wheel obscured the instruments to the extent that it was entirely possible to be going quicker than expected. I was pleased to hand it back. He later wrote it off just outside Bures one Saturday morning, it took the hit much better than the Octavia coming the other way. Nobody hurt but game over for both. 

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The Vauxhall Mokka... the car that says “I have given up -all hope of ever discovering any kinder if personality, and will now dress in get mgrey or blush for the rest of my days as I confirm here in my purchase that I am a boring fucker with no imagination”

 

 That and Ford Escort Mk1s... I do not get the hype there at all... 

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9 hours ago, CreepingJesus said:

Been all the way through this thread, and I'm surprised I hadn't contributed back then. Cos the funny thing is, my answer is still the same as it would've been.

2CV

Times change, and so have my tastes and therefore likes and dislikes. But no single vehicle of any description evokes such a visceral hatred in me as these. I appreciate the engineering, and the social significance of them to France, and even the racing of them: but...they're the only real reason* I'd buy a cheap Russian tank. And yep, I'd paint a little pictogram of each one destroyed on my turret. Driven over repeatedly or blanket shelled from a mile away, it's all one to me. 

And yes, I have driven one. I hated them before that, but I gave it a chance. For about 10 days iirc, and it couldn't redeem them. 

 

*Unless pissing about on the local fields and beaches and staging a mock invasion counts as 'real'?

Ah yes the 2cv.

My father had a cortina 2.0 gl back in 1987/ 1988 and had this wierd obsession with the 2cv.

They had recently (im sure someone will correct /confirm this) introduced a "charleston" edition in black and burgandy and they were cheap as chips when new, I think £3995?

Obsessed,and trying to convince us what a fantastic idea it was, he marched us up to the local bassets citroen dealer to take one for a test drive. 

Salesman comes out giving it the usual flannel and we hop in, all of 50p's worth of fuel in it so he pulls up to the attached pump to put £2 in cos "these are amazing on fuel see", the old man turning around in pure excitement at how much money he was going to save, the rest of us not convinced. 

With that, a nice looking newish car pulls up with the prettiest girl in my school (Anna Thomas) in the passenger seat, uh oh, I'm in a 2cv, must hide,can't be seen in something this shit, even though she was at a totally inaccessible level to a scumbag like me. With that, salesman boy folds the roof back cos "its a convertible see", the old man turns around again, big smile on his face and turns to me saying "you can tell your friends you've got a convertible now". With that, Anna looks over, with a look that i can still see now, of pure sorrow for me stuck in the back of this POS,then turned to her mother, and they both laugh. 

Good news was the shame didn't end there, 4 up and trying to pull off on a steep hill, progress could no longer be made without mechanical failure and my mother and I were told by my father to get out, which we did, and we walked the 1/2 mile back to the garage. 

Yes, truly hateful things but he still tried to convince us it was a good idea to which my mother continually ignored. 

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6 hours ago, brownnova said:

The Vauxhall Mokka... the car that says “I have given up -all hope of ever discovering any kinder if personality, and will now dress in get mgrey or blush for the rest of my days as I confirm here in my purchase that I am a boring fucker with no imagination”

Substitute 'Vauxhall Mokka' for any number of modern German cars and 'purchase' for 'lease' and you've more or less hit the current motoring scene on the head.

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I dislike some of the larger modern MINI variants. Partly I guess it’s the bulbous styling but also I think it’s a grudging realisation of the value of the mini brand that Rover group had and what bmw has done spun off it. Very shrewd, but I don’t like them.
 

I do like the r53 cooper “s”  though.

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