Shite that disappointed you

[dugong]

OMFG PET U SNOB U RUINED BL

[John F]

Had to snigger at John F's £400 Calibra 'beating' a new Bentley, though - glorified VW or otherwise. 

 

I thought Autoshite was past inverted snobbery. 

 

Not so much snobbery as deep, heart-felt disappointment... I wanted to like the Bentley, but I just couldn't help comparing it to my Calibra when I was driving it.

 

Both the Bentley and the Vauxhall have sporting / GT pretensions, but the lardy Bentley just has too much mass to be fun. Coupled with its nasty, entirely inappropriate flappy-paddle slushbox and PAS that - amazingly! - didn't get firmer with speed, I was left with a feeling that this 'GT' car was really just a luxobarge to transport old men to their golf club. IMO, based on a 30-minute test drive on a mixture of city roads, A roads and motorways, the Calibra had it beaten hands-down and the price I paid for it 9 years ago was less than you'd have to pay for one of the Bentley's tyres. I shudder to think how much an owner would have to fork out in servicing & depreciation over a 9-year period, too.

 

Verdict: ORL (NEW) BENTLEEZ AR SHITTER THAN VOXALLS (OR AT LEAST V6 CLEEBERS)

[nebuchenezer]

Hyundai Accent Mvi in bright yellow (Beloved liked the colour) - despite its sporting pretensions it was a truly horrible thing to drive, the slightest ripple on the road surface sending the chassis into spasms. I moved it on very quickly (and at a loss) to some unsuspecting young girl who caught a train down from Newcastle (I was in Taunton at the time) to pay and drive it home after winning it on Ebay. I would love to have seen the look on her face after the first 100m of driving. 

[The Moog]

306 DT- couldn't get comfortable 

 

911 3.2 1986 - Hire car Treat for myself when I got a pay rise. Disappointment all round

 

900 Carlsson - Too scared of damaging it to get it used in anger. After fighting with insurance company to get it fixed once, didn't fancy it again so sold it for a large profit. 

[dollywobbler]

Saab 900. They just don't do it for me. Am I expecting too much? Even when I drove a T16, I came away from that day far preferring the 95 two-stroke I also drove.

 

Austin Maestro. Owned a 1.3L. Found it thoroughly unremarkable and exceedingly dull. An accusation I oddly can't level at the van, which I thought was stonking if a bit noisy and firm of suspension.

 

Citroen DS. I think I need to drive a few thousand more miles in one but too floaty and the engines are rubbish.

 

Isuzu Trooper Mk1 diesel. Probably the most awful thing I've ever driven. Hopeless in all regards.

 

Morris Minor. Gosh they feel flimsy and undergeared. Said a 2CVer.

[xtriple]

Okay, I know I'll get flamed for this but...

 

My wife LOVED Daewoo matiz' and had three on the trot. The first two were Daewoos, high spec SE with ABS and airbags splattered all over the back window, lovely little three cylinder engine that sounded brilliant when thrashed and both of them did over the ton on the A38 (slightly downhill it has to be said!), great on fuel and apart from the first one getting its clutch a bit hot and bothered one day at a car boot sale, never a moments bother. First was a 'W' reg, second was an '02' and then...

 

She'd had the second one a long time and it was out of warranty so time for a new car. I wanted to look at C1s and Toyotas and all those but we stopped at the Chevrolet garage first.. she bought a new 1000cc 4 cylinder one. Had to have the 4 cylinder to get the same spec as she already had (alloys, leccy windows, air con etc  though I could be wrong about the air con?) but they didn't have one to try. Never mind, must be better than the old one, right?

 

It was fucking awful!

 

Brand new on an 07 and it drove like shit, the throttle peddle would pulse under your foot in traffic (very odd feeling) really gutless, crap on fuel and with about as much charm as David Cameron. It was even badly built and rattled like a skeleton wanking in an empty tin and everything had been cheapened right down - the carpets were horrendous and nearly impossible to clean.

 

It spent ages back at the dealership where they finally diagnosed the tappets were too tight (which in fairness, once they were loosened up the thing went much better) but they never cured the throttle pulsing thing or any of its other foibles.

 

It lasted a year and about 3000 miles before it was sold and a new Colt replaced it.

 

I had an MGB roadster as well. I agree with the previous poster, utter shit and fucking awful to drive. Unreliable as well though at least it wasn't rusty (Heritage shell). Not a single redeeming feature other than I made a grand on it in a year!

[HH-R]

Fack me, Chevrolet managed to make the Matiz even WORSE?

[twosmoke300]

Matiz's are ok I think . For what they are

[martc]

As mentioned elsewhere, but not a car, the Harley Davidson 883 Sportster - truly blinkin' awful but much loved by the public and Superbike mag.

[DS20]

Vauxhall Corsa B 1.4.  Fresh-looking for the mid-'90s, and not bad on space for a small car.  Quite hard-wearing.  BUT: horrid seats, awful Hi-Torq engine, relatively thirsty, baulky gearchange, poor suspension (thumpity thumpity CRASH), didn't like corners, struggled to hit 70 and God help you if you met a hill on the motorway.  

[Uncle Jimmy]

All the cars I've owned and all those forthcoming. I am a pervert.

[MarvinsMom]

to be truthful SWMBO loves her hardly dangerous sportster 883

 

i've been on the back once and i have never been so cold and uncomfortable in all my life.

 

i felt like doing a pontiff when i got off the bloody thing and kiss the ground. i was that relieved. almost as relieved as when i finished the CBT thing, and i vowed never, ever to do anything like that again.....

 

plus i think she maybe rides 100 or 200 miles a year on it. other times its the wrong weather etc she is very much a fair weather biker.

[I_am_Diesel]

MG Metro, for some reason I just didn't enjoy driving it or owning it. It wasn't as peppy as I imagined and finding new rust spots every time I used it was soul destroying. I sold it at a loss as usual.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I learned to drive in an MG Metro - my driving instructor had one. I really liked it; it was a lovely car to drive.

 

The 'disappointing shite' for me was the Mk 1 VW Golf CL my mother had at that time. It was horrible to drive - like a tractor in comparison to the Metro. Thankfully she replaced it with a Peugeot 309. It was a MUCH better car than the Golf in every way. I actually enjoyed driving it.

[chaseracer]

Porsche 928.  It wasn't shite at the time, which just made it worse.

[willswitchengage]

Biggest disappointment?

 

Alton Towers.

 

[Rusty Pelican]

51 Plate Astra , what an uninspiring forgettable piece of unreliable uninspiring boring forgetful pile of shite , 1 year of it was more than enough 

[Jerzy Woking]

Had an 1994 LS400 with 250,000 miles on the clock (purchased for £600), but looked and felt 200,000 less. Not a mark on the paintwork and the leather interior was as new. Every thing worked as it did the day it was built. Beautiful car and 30 mpg was possible (but no fun!). Only sold it as I was doing a rolling resto on a VW van.

 

VW finished, I wanted another barge and found a reasonable 4.0 Jag X300. OMG what a heap. One by one, things failed. On board computer. Air con belt. Then Air con. Engine misfire. Both front electric windows. Two trips to independent Jag specialist-misfire could not be traced nor repaired. Seat base collapsed. Power steering went on the blink and noisy. Nearside headlight fell out (taped back into the sort of right position). All of this within TWO weeks and about 100 miles.

 

Mk1 Golf 1.6 GLS that was fun to drive but panels made of tissue paper.

 

And, at the tender age of 18, a year old Harley Davidson XLCR1000. Looked stunning (back then)but vibrated like you would not believe, leaked oil like the Torre Canyon, and was less reliable that a BSA Starfire I owned. Why they fetch upwards of £16k now stuns me. Hopeless.

[forddeliveryboy]

1988 CRX non-VTEC. Engine was plenty fast enough, good for 130, but the whole car was a bit insipid - perfect for an Accord, not for a little sprinter.

[Pillock]

205 1.9 GTI.

They get praised by every magazine from CAR to Top Gear via all the retro ones, and Crochet Monthly.

I found it really dull to drive, very little feel. It was quick but wasn't confident at all, so I didn't feel like I wanted to go quickly.

 

Basically, the Mk3 Golf GTI I had afterwards was better. I know, madness. But it was.

[Burnside]

Golf [all]

[Burnside]

Golf [all]

 

Should add every Golf I've ever driven is bland and way overrated and the epic build that dubbers talk about is a joke. They are no better than any other car of there time but for some reason they all seam to think so and that there worth a fortune because it's a VW.

[nisfan]

Another vote for the golf (mk2 gti), was a bit of a lemon but felt slow and handled worse than my polo.

BX, didnt do it for me at all.

Porsche 924 S.H.I.T

[Lukas]

The car that disappointed me the most was the first car I foolishliy bought new. This one:

 

 

A 2006 Impreza. I opted for the wrong engine, so the whole car was shit, not shite. The car felt very sporty, but the eingine (1.5R) was absolutely not the right one for it. You had to rev it over 4500 rpm the whole time to get going, it was the most stressing and less relaxing car I have ever owned. Never ever again! Oh was I foolish!

 

Lukas

[Asimo]

^^^^ Yup, those are dog slow with that engine, tragically slow if automatic.

The local Subaru palace had one such as a courtesy car, ie it was unsellable.

[RayMK]

Escort MK2 Automatic.  Bought from an old lady for a very reasonable price, low mileage, superb condition and everything worked well.  Despite it being so pretty and difficult to ignore in its bright yellow suit, driving it was tedious, it hated doing more than 60mph, the autochoke was rubbish and the suspension was as bad a modern heap with spray on tyres and anti roll bars so fat that independence is impossible.  I let my wife drive it.  She did not bond with it either, so we sold it after 3 years to benefit from the developing scene tax.

 

Morris Minor.  A rusty saloon, bought from a retiring colleague for £90, with a few weeks MOT.  I did not like it at all. Noisy, farty nonsense from the exhaust and a back axle which skipped sideways on corners whenever surprised by a catseye or a dead ant.  I liked it even less when I discovered how totally the main structural bits had rusted away.  Bridged.

 

MZ250 Supa5.  Bought brand new in a vague attempt to recreate my youth (when I had a superbly handling CZ175).  The MZ disappointed with its reluctance to tick over and even after changing the 'tyres for life' nylon things it came with, the handling was alarming, particularly on wet roundabouts.  I sold it after 2,000 miles.