Top Gear's Worst Car

[tooSavvy]

lol above... digression - Spanish firebrigade used circular saw (liberally water cooled) to remove three 'rings' from mans tool....

 

As We Were

 

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[Timewaster]

They are genuinely shit.

 

 

I got offered one that was just 4 years old for an unbelievable (at the time) price of a few hundred quid.

 

A 2 minute walk around was enough to convince me it was over priced.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

Thanks to everyone for all of your comments and advice, particularly the information on the immobiliser and keys.

I'm viewing it Sunday, hopefully I can get it to run. 

[Lankytim]

I'd love a go in one.. Maybe even own one... 

 

I mean, people even love Ladas don't they?

[Austin-Rover]

Thanks to everyone for all of your comments and advice, particularly the information on the immobiliser and keys.

I'm viewing it Sunday, hopefully I can get it to run. 

 

I hope you get it going, but either way bung some pictures of it up for the rest of us!

[Pillock]

That leather looks well comfy* in the 06 version.

[HH-R]

Always liked the CityRover, it's a smartly designed little thing. They are pretty terrible inside and mega old fashioned though, fine now that they're worth nowt but in 04/05/06 it was laughable against the Panda, Picanto etc. Would probably have chosen one over an Aygo/C1/107 though, they're just a bit too small and missing a cylinder. On a par with a Corsa C for grimness inside, D was probably out by then though.

[fatharris]

Wow, that looks like a properly grim place to sit in.

 

Buy it. Buy it now.

 

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[Lukas]

The Indica Vista, successor of your Indica/CityRover, is a much nicer car. 

 

 

 

 

It´s not worse than any other small car. 

 

The only downsinde is safety. It´s got no side-airbags, of course no curtain-airbags too, and it´s got no safety rating. And no ESP. That´s the biggest problem, because

especially buyers of small cars want that, my friend who imports them since 2007 says. 

 

But otherwise, they are OK. Fiat-engines. 

[HH-R]

Having any airbags at all is the height of safety for this place!

[cms206]

 

 

The Indica Vista, successor of your Indica/CityRover, is a much nicer car.

"Dog turds are the best turds"

[Lukas]

[Felly Magic]

A mate of mine oop north bought one brand new, and regretted that decision, as it was just before the Rover implosion, so he ended up with an unreliable car with no warranty. He chopped it in for a Smart For Four (1st gen), and that wasn't much better reliability wise either

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

I hope you get it going, but either way bung some pictures of it up for the rest of us!

 

Will do.

[djimbob]

Just do it, we may never see motor vehicles of that immense shiteness ever again, I blame brussels etc and so forth

[oldcars]

Having any airbags at all is the height of safety for this place!

Having a unopened packet of crisps in the passenger side dash storage bin on the Reliant is the nearest i get to an airbag.

[jonny69]

The Indica Vista, successor of your Indica/CityRover, is a much nicer car. 

 

It´s not worse than any other small car. 

 

The only downside is safety. It´s got no side-airbags, of course no curtain-airbags too, and it´s got no safety rating. And no ESP. That´s the biggest problem, because especially buyers of small cars want that, my friend who imports them since 2007 says. 

 

But otherwise, they are OK. Fiat-engines. 

 

My car has none of the things you listed, including the Fiat engine.

 

Oh, except no safety rating. It does have no safety rating.

[Lukas]

That´s a problem for many new-car-buyers though. Us Autoshiters do not understand that. 

[Lacquer Peel]

THIS CAR DOES NOT HAVE 10 AIRBAGS = DEATH TRAP.

 

I don't know how me and my sisters survived the 80s and 90s in clapped out cars from the 80s. My dad had a VW T3 crewcab with a bench thrown in the back, it wasn't even bolted down, braking was fun*.

 

[JohnDeere]

Talking of airbags, I always liked the way the passenger airbag was so neatly integrated on these.

 

But millions of Indians driving Indicars can't be wrong. Like Dink I've spent many a happy* hour in the back of one. Lots of hat room.

 

Funny that the same company is churning these out at the same time as Jags and Range Rovers.

[egg]

I spent plenty of time my teens in the 90's being ferried around town in the back of my dad's fiesta and fiat uno vans (between me and my brother who got the short straw!). 

 

According to How Many left - cityrover numbers are dropping rapidly. 8,000 odd in 2009, just 3,500 now...

 

https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/family/rover_cityrover

[HH-R]

I'm really surprised there were that many. It's quite comedy that Rover in its death throes managed to outsell the MG 6 with a product that was just about universally derided.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

Does the MG6 have electrically controlled brakes?. 

An aquaintance of mine owned a Megane of about 2005 vintage. Entrance to the car and starting the engine was controlled by a fob. 

One Sunday morning he was driving through his local town centre and as he pulled over to pass a parked car the steering lock engaged.

Fortunately for him there was nothing heading towards him. Switching the ignition off and back on released the lock. 

He traded it in for Nissan Note with a proper ignition/steering lock key.

[For Fiats Sake]

I seem to remember the City Rover been offered in print ads for £3,999. 

 

Rover sales boomed during the final throes of the company though didn't they?

 

No such thing as bad publicity for cheap(ish) cars then?

 

Before I had a City Rover I'd have to have an Ignis and a Honda Logo.  I love small cheap cars but like them to be three door!

[HH-R]

IIRC the mk2 was launched days before MGR went bust and Tata delivered the goods (literally), they arrived at the docks with no one to take them so Motorpoint bought them and knocked them out at a low price.

[sierraman]

A dealer near me sold them in 2005/6 for 4k on the road. I seem to remember they had them for a while, which surprised me as for 4k you couldn't go wrong!

[Anthony30]

Don't fall into the crap trap. They really are pieces of rubbish to say the least. Had one in work with the rear shock absorber dangling at the top mount, because the wheel arch had rusted away. Really shocking build quality. The gear selection is also a ' I'll put it here, and hopefully it will go into gear' affair.     It's NOT a Rover, just a REALLY cheap , and nasty, Chinese built pathetic excuse of a motor car.

[Cavcraft]

I thought they were Indian made?

[Anthony30]

I thought they were Indian made?

Possibly got it wrong, but either way they really are piles of shod, and not our kind either.

[Lukas]

My friend with the TATA - workshop has made different experiences. And I´ve talked to some owners while there for the annual service. They all were happy with their Indicas.