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Best/most fun - Audi Quattro Turbo Gene Hunt Special just one huge smile.
Worst - US PT Cruiser Convertible wallowy, slow, skittish truly awful.
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Has to be my grandfathers escort van - non turbo-diesel. Felt like it was powered by elastic bands and the brakes did f-all.
My old man had a Volvo 340 for a while. Cripplingly uncomfortable seats, wider wheels and no power steering. Took 2 of us to turn the wheel at parking speeds.
2005 Audi A4 2.0TDi auto. Did everything almost too well and so ended up completely characterless and dull as ****. 80mph felt like being sat in front of the TV with the sound off.
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Technically it should be the Audi RS4 Avant I had to deliver across London, but I walked away feeling disappointed. I suspect it would be great on a mountain pass in the Alps, but at sub 30mph in London, it was just pointless.
Fiat Cinquecento Sporting. All the build quality of a wet paper bag, but it handled really well and you could thrash the knackers off it in everyday driving.
My VW Passat estate. I've done almost 100k in it (total 180k) and it's been solid, reliable and efficent. Comfortable motorway cruiser, but it's also been ragged over a few mountains when fully loaded and has risen to the challenge. I would like something that has a bit more life to it though...
Best: 106 Ralye 1.3 , Clio 172 cup & current mini cooper
Worst: bmw 320 coupe & lexus thing. Wifes company cars!
Best: My Triumph 2000 I had when I was 18
Worst: The Peugeot 205 1.1 I got as a company car to replace my Triumph 🙁 then the Escort diesel they gave me when I wrote off the Peugeot double 🙁
Best: Ferrari 355 F1, trackday thing, was amazing even kept it in a straight line in the wet 🙂
Worst: Daewoo Matiz, was dropped off at work as a hire car I was supposed to drive with a boot full of stuff from sheffield to glasgow, needless to say I drove if straight to the hire company and told then where they could park it, and five mins later I drove off in a lovely Alfa 147 for nowt extra.
Best - golf - recent hire car, but then my company car is a vectra and it is awful
Worst - would have said vectra, but i got an Astra Twin Top convertible as a hire car. How anyone would actually spend their own money on it after a test drive i do not understand. Was poor with the roof up but when down i thought the whole thing would shake to bits!
Best to drive, Lotus Elise S1 or Alfa Romeo Bertone GTV Coupe. Both had the ability to put a smile on your face, a good balance of predictable but lively handling without too much power or grip. Able to safely drive them closer to their limits at legal speeds. Driving them both in Sheffield winters was a different story! Best to live with year-round; Boxster S. Fast, fun to drive but comfortable with good luggage space. All sadly missed!
Worst; Mitsubishi Space Wagon. Horrendous Italian hire car which seemed to have embraced the Italian car reliability stereotype despite it's Japanese heritage. Dodgy electrics left is with a window stuck down for 2 hours on a Autostrada after a toll, and again over night through a thunder storm. Needed bailing out afterwards! Also shocking ride and wooly handling. Range Rover Vogue SE Supercharged also a big disappointment. Was expecting it to feel lively; instead was like being sat on a tractor and turned like a car ferry.
matthewjb - MemberBest that I've owned would be a Renault 19 16v. Great handling. Obviously poor French build quality.
Good choice, still own one, an H reg phase 1 model which are becoming very rare. Great drive if not the out and out fastest these days.
I drove a Toyota Yaris always liked the looks of them but by god it's horrible. The inside was made out of the hardest plastic known to man, looking at the digital speedo was like looking down a long tunnel and why put it in the middle. When you hit a pot hole or speed hump a bit quick it sounded like the suspension was going to fall off and imo it didn't handle to well either.
Worst, daf 44, just don't ask
Best, couldn't possibly say, but my god I've driven some nice cars, Aston's, ferrari's, lambo's, nobles, TVR's etc, oh & the odd Porsche 😉
Can I just add to my earlier post by saying how much I loathe my Mk3 - erm Golf - GTi. It's not dreadful per se, but compared to the Mk2, which is brilliant, it's a complete and utter let down and should never have had a GTi badge. It's not fit to wear the shirt...
That the dreadful 2.0 8V engined mk3? underpowered rattly bag of spanners.
That particular engined variant wasn't badged GTi in other territories iirc, it's just that they knew Brits would buy anything with a GTi badge on the back.
Best: RX8
Worst: Montego
Best,, Lotus Elise (fantastic)
Worst,, BMW 1 series/BMW Mini D (both a massive letdown)
The RC30,what a machine! The noise,the build quality,it's sheer presence.One of the best vehicles ever for Joe Public to purchase....Never rode one though.
Best: Honda NSX Type-R (9200 Rev limit V6)
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Worst: 86 'C' (rot box) Ford escort 1.6 Diesel.