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I`ve driven so many cars[I`ve owned around 180] yet only a few stand out...
The scariest car I`ve driven is a girlfriends Suzuki Vitara, rolly polly suspension, crap brakes, vague steering. In the rain it felt like you were about to slide ALL the time!
Also 1 of my customers had an RX7 which was so light I had to put 4 packs of sound deadening in the doors so they would close properly! This lightness combined with poorly designed & overly hard suspension, meant it was an absolute nightmare in the wet, ANY bump in the road, even in a straight line, would cause it to jump about all over the place! I always hated driving that thing....
One of my ex`s had an 88` Opel Kadett which looked mint [Kadetts & Astras are usually fine, this wasnt directly the cars fault], she started complaining the steering felt funny, I drove it & realised if you were driving & turned the steering wheel 1/2 a turn to the right to turn, you`d have to turn it a full turn to the left to straighten it again. When I lifted the bonnet I was horrified to find the spot welds that helt the rack mountings to the bulkhead had ALL rusted & sheered! as a result the steering rack was COMPLETELY disconnected from the body & effectively being held in place by the steering column! I immediately banned her from using it[I gave her my Senator A] & parted the Kadett out.
One of my friends has an LDV box van which he made into a horse box for his wifes minature ponies. I recently had the`pleasure`of driving this thing... Because of the ammount of stuff he`s added to it, the front suspension cant cope, as a result when you turn[especially left] the front suspension bottoms out, causing the tyre to rub, filling the cabin with acrid tyre smoke & letting out a loud, scarey clonk! thats aside from the fact the normally aspirated 2.0 diesel engine struggles to make the thing move!
His son has a 1998 Renault Master which is THE slowest thing I`ve ever driven by a long way...
The scariest car I`ve driven is a girlfriends Suzuki Vitara, rolly polly suspension, crap brakes, vague steering. In the rain it felt like you were about to slide ALL the time!
Also 1 of my customers had an RX7 which was so light I had to put 4 packs of sound deadening in the doors so they would close properly! This lightness combined with poorly designed & overly hard suspension, meant it was an absolute nightmare in the wet, ANY bump in the road, even in a straight line, would cause it to jump about all over the place! I always hated driving that thing....
One of my ex`s had an 88` Opel Kadett which looked mint [Kadetts & Astras are usually fine, this wasnt directly the cars fault], she started complaining the steering felt funny, I drove it & realised if you were driving & turned the steering wheel 1/2 a turn to the right to turn, you`d have to turn it a full turn to the left to straighten it again. When I lifted the bonnet I was horrified to find the spot welds that helt the rack mountings to the bulkhead had ALL rusted & sheered! as a result the steering rack was COMPLETELY disconnected from the body & effectively being held in place by the steering column! I immediately banned her from using it[I gave her my Senator A] & parted the Kadett out.
One of my friends has an LDV box van which he made into a horse box for his wifes minature ponies. I recently had the`pleasure`of driving this thing... Because of the ammount of stuff he`s added to it, the front suspension cant cope, as a result when you turn[especially left] the front suspension bottoms out, causing the tyre to rub, filling the cabin with acrid tyre smoke & letting out a loud, scarey clonk! thats aside from the fact the normally aspirated 2.0 diesel engine struggles to make the thing move!
His son has a 1998 Renault Master which is THE slowest thing I`ve ever driven by a long way...