[Closed] fact about cars

nah, the Honda Jizz has it by a country mile

or any car whose driver is wearing a hat of any kind

The single greatest car name ever is...

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The Nissan Cedric

I thought the greatest car name was the Nissan Micra Wave!

naaa, worst driven cars on the roads are all driven by people who passed their test south of the watford gap!

Ford had to abandon plans for the "si" variant of the Ka. that would have been good.

I appeared to have lurched off topic. No idea why, apart from I thoguht it was "facts about cars" and started waffling. I'll stop now.

as a rule of thumb.......

The WORST driven cars, are driven by people wearing HATS

Chavs in Caps
Old rover drivers in flat caps
BMW and Audi drivers in "beanies"
women in rangerovers towing horses wearing caps

What hatt do you have to wear to "lunch" when driving a convertible?

Anything with an Audi badge on it, and VW Golf/Passats seem to be the ones most often trying to kill me. Oh - and BMW X-series monstrosities.

Fact: Mitsubishi were into horses in the 80's and brought out the 'colt'. They then designed a front engined sports coupé and thought it should be like a bigger more powerful horse. A bad phone line between australian and japanese reps got the new car heralded in press releases as the "Starion". By the time they realised it was too late to change it.
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btw the official line is that the name is a contraction of "star of orion" but i like the first story the best.

The starion....
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Actually, how coudl I have forgotten the glory that is...

the Mazda Bongo Friendee

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Oh sorry it wandered off a bit there. Also I think the real starion doesn't have octagonal wheels but it really is that angular.

And yes I know 2 drivers of new mini convertibles (both yellow -wtf?) and they both lunch. One is 36 and the other will admit to being somewhere 'around' forty.

Personally I see no link between cars and how they're driven - I see equal numbers of idiots in all types, though usually the little smarts are the ones that get upset when you overtake them while they're feeling vulnerable doing more than 30mph in 60 zones, usually its BMWs that try to drive over you and corsas that you see doing the most dangerous moves around town.

The Toyota MR2 wasn't so popular [i]en France.[/i]
MR2 = (Phonetically) "Em ehr Deux" = Merde 😉

Olly - Member
as a rule of thumb.......

<snip> women in rangerovers towing horses wearing caps

Horses wearing caps? Whatever next, pigs in chaps?

already exist boblo:
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That story about the Mitsubishi Starion is funny. Have heard it before actually, got to say it does sound pretty plausible.

Worst driven cars I think depends on where you are at the time. If you're on the motorway, it's ALWAYS a rep in an Audi A4. If you're on the country roads round where I live, it's a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla, driven by a coffin dodger at 1/2 the speed limit yet without managing to see any hazards! If you're in London, no matter how bad everybody drives down there, it's bus drivers predominantly. If you're in Coventry (nay, "Chaventry") it's the scrotes in Corsas and old Escorts.

Or if it's 8:30am ANYWHERE in the country, it's the millions of Yummy Mums that only ever drive a car (always WAY too big, usually a 4x4) around the country taking the little ones to school cos they're too precious to catch the bus 😉

ANYONE that owns or drives a Toyota Prius should be: Hung, drawn and quatered. Then burnt with their car.

Stupid hippies and old people.

Agree on the Mini - although I have a different impression of the 'average' driver..agents (estate or possibly recruitment), and young girls who appear to be reenacting the Italian Job.

Cars that are always driven bad:

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Add to that list

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Anything that resembles this:

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Vauxhall tigras are undoubtedly the worst driven cars on the road

Just looking at that pic of the Chavved up Tigra, begs the question "Just how much fibreglass is it possible to get on one car?"

😉

The worst driven car is:

Anything driven in Cheltenham during race week, normal rules of the road are suspended and Turkish rules instated 🙁

Atleast I was recognised at the chippie as a locak and got the chips, cheese and curry sauce at normal price!

SSP

RobS said "Anything with an Audi badge on it, and VW Golf/Passats seem to be the ones most often trying to kill me. Oh - and BMW X-series monstrosities. "

You are almost correct.

It's NEW audi's though.

All the old ones are fine.

The civic type r, driven by tits who want to race everything, which is a shame because aside from the idiots who drivevthem they aren't too bad, though not fast and certainly not as fast as the owners think they are.

If proof were needed, there are probably three times as many civic type r's being sold as cat d than any other car

our company has zaffira's as the fleet cars, my god are the rubbish, feels like driving a cross between a dodgem without the turnig circle, and a undrpowered brick.

Any car driven by a singletrackworld petrol head with an over inflated opinion of his own driving skills

now i know where teh Live for Speed guys got their 'beginners RWD car' from

[url= http://www.lfs.net/?page=contents&car=xr_gt ]here[/url]

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anyway - worst driven cars recently have been black Vauxhaul Astras

anything i'm driving.
especially when i've been drinking, taking drugs or am am eating a big mac, yakking on the phone or getting a blow job.

BUT, when all the above are true, i am a driving god.
(just now, i drive a 4wd bmw with an audi badge spray painted on it, in a rather fetching burberry check)

My fab five of badly driven vehicles.

5. Range Rovers driven by mothers on the school run.

4. Buses driven by, er bus drivers.

3. Minicabs by whoever.

2. Mercedes drivers in general.

1. Mercedes mini cabs.

[i]honourable mention goes to lorry drivers and scooter riders.[/i]

Personal Faves
x-5/ disco etc parked across 3 spaces by mother at supermarket
5 series inspecting the type of screws used to hold your number plate on at 80mph
Any car that has the sat nav stuck in the middle of the windscreen
As above but then cant change lanes on the motorway because the sat nav hasn't spoken
Anywhere within 1mile of a school at start or finish time sometimes it resembles 24 where the 4x4 pulls up on the steps and bundles poor kiddie in before they have to take more than 2 steps

and when i get my rocket launchers fitted........

Pajero = c*ck in spanish ( i think thats an urban myth though)

I have to commute through 30+ miles of traffic on the highway to & from work on my motorbike and whilst most drivers are quite considerate there are always some drivers who cause an unecessary hinderance (be it through ignorance or a deliberate manoeuvre)

After a few years of this it is clear there are vehicles that more typically involved:
1) 5 series BMW
2) Renault Espace
3) Any tradesman van (Transit / Sprinter)

But I can also accept the OP issue with the Mini driving ladies who lunch - we have plenty of them near where I live & indeed crap parking / u-turns / yapping on the GSM all seem far to frequent 🙁

Well everything with a red I on the back for a start.
Then as said WW audi merc and BMW specially here. Plus the white van.
But I fear less the white van than the audi or the german 4WD to be honest.

Ho I shall had clarkson cars, they are dangerous too.

Little ****stani women that cant see over the steering wheel, and are driving on a forged licence used by their whole family. Thats what my nan reckons.

gotta go with school run mothers/fathers. Darling cherub cannot be allowed to walk more than 10 yards to the school gate so obviously just plonk your car whereever is closest to the school without indicating or caring that you're blocking a junction or somebodies driveway ARGHGH then after they've got out just pull out into the traffic without bothing to look. BRILLO

The Toyota MR2 wasn't so popular en France.
MR2 = (Phonetically) "Em ehr Deux" = Merde

I believe that in Spanish that Nova, as in Vauxhall/Opel Nova, translates roughly as 'Does no go'.........

So they made it coarser... sorry, CORSA
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Why do those neds insist on driving with their body twisted at 45 degrees and the arm holding the top of the steering wheel straight?

Surely that can't be comfortable

Peter the corsa is corsa evreywhere but UK...
At last the old squared one

Nissan Almera drivers.
Worst. Green ones get a special mention

closely followed by Taxi drivers, especially ones in Toyota Carrina's

Most aggressive award (as in aggressive driving style not road rage) goes to Sprinter drivers

[b]Drivers:[/b]

Bus drivers
Minicab drivers
Tax drivers

All of whom think that the rules of the road are for others to obey and red lights and the general safety of their passangers and other road users are optional at best.

[b]Cars:[/b]

Mondeos/Cavaliers/Vectras - clapped out, untaxed, uninsured
Golfs - I hate these for so many reasons, but mainly that smug, aspirational, middle class, I think I've bought a mini-Mercedes, it's a GTI doncha know, c***sucking attitude so many of their drivers seem to have....

Vauxhall Agila's driven by people who look like they've already died...