What's the most difficult car you've driven?
23 July 2009, 09:15 AM
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MY08 Impreza 1.5R auto. Got this as a hire car when my STI was getting serviced and it's utterly rubbish. No power at all to the point you cannot do hill starts at times, a gearbox which just doesn't work in a heavy AWD car, seats you fall out of and steering so light that you have no idea what the front is doing.
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25 July 2009, 05:06 PM
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Where shall i start?
Porsche 356 Speedster - not nice at any speed above 30mph when your whole head is above the windscreen
Ferrari Mondial T Cabriolet - Never take the roof down if it's not warm - it shrinks and won't stretch up again.
928 manual - some makers put decent Dog-boxes in their cars i.e. BMW, Aston, Ferrari. Porsche didn't.
TVR Chimaera - No PAS, steering just felt rubbery and stiff, kept over-heating, dials didn't work. POS.
Marcos Mantis - Just an utter, utter POS in every way.
Porsche Boxster 2.7 Tiptronic - what is the point of this car? Crap.
E30 M3 with bald tyres, knackered shocks in the wet.
I'll think of more
Porsche 356 Speedster - not nice at any speed above 30mph when your whole head is above the windscreen
Ferrari Mondial T Cabriolet - Never take the roof down if it's not warm - it shrinks and won't stretch up again.
928 manual - some makers put decent Dog-boxes in their cars i.e. BMW, Aston, Ferrari. Porsche didn't.
TVR Chimaera - No PAS, steering just felt rubbery and stiff, kept over-heating, dials didn't work. POS.
Marcos Mantis - Just an utter, utter POS in every way.
Porsche Boxster 2.7 Tiptronic - what is the point of this car? Crap.
E30 M3 with bald tyres, knackered shocks in the wet.
I'll think of more
For me it would be the ancient "two and a quarter SWB landrover" I drove in the TA. We had 8 tonnes Bedford trucks limited to 50mph and the rovers were no faster. Most of the gboxes were buggered. Basically a road going tractor. Good in the dirt, of course!
Never did like the concept of sitting on the fuel tank either!
25 July 2009, 08:35 PM
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Must be my mother's old Renault 5. God what a dog. Rolled like fc*k round corners.
The worst was driving a BBC Bedford truck. Worth a £1,000,000 with the equpiment inside but screamed like a banshee when you drove the thing. No power and loads of weight. Driven some **** trucks but the BBC have the best of the best ****e!
The worst was driving a BBC Bedford truck. Worth a £1,000,000 with the equpiment inside but screamed like a banshee when you drove the thing. No power and loads of weight. Driven some **** trucks but the BBC have the best of the best ****e!
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26 July 2009, 10:11 PM
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27 July 2009, 08:22 AM
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Other than that, it'd have to be my classic mini - 1440 race engine, 296 scatter cam, so lumpy as you like, would run on 3 cylinders below 1200rpm! I had just bought in in north London and had to drive it to Horsham. The guy had to jump start it as the battery was 'flat' actually it was 'knackered'
so I couldn't stop otherwise I'd have to get a jumo start again. The idle was also set too low so it would stall unless you kept your foot on the throttle pedal - try doing that around the M25 at 5pm I managed to get to the Horsham turnoff on the motorway and at the top of the sliproad it stalled - with several cars behind me. I jumped out and opened the boot, pulled a set of jump leads out and asked the driver behind me for a jump, not that he had any option
Great little car though when it was all sorted - 118bhp!
27 July 2009, 06:38 PM
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Was it ever possible to give it full throttle without risking ending up hedge bound, all that torque arriving at rear wheels with very little weight over them, all the other caterfields, apart from the Seight seem to use low to medium power engines that use revs to make power rather than forced induction, interested what Caterfield purists make of it ?
Did your missus remark on the state of certain items of your laundry follwing a drive ?
28 July 2009, 07:37 PM
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Love that, I suspect it seemed like a good idea at the time
Was it ever possible to give it full throttle without risking ending up hedge bound, all that torque arriving at rear wheels with very little weight over them, all the other caterfields, apart from the Seight seem to use low to medium power engines that use revs to make power rather than forced induction, interested what Caterfield purists make of it ?
Did your missus remark on the state of certain items of your laundry follwing a drive ?
Was it ever possible to give it full throttle without risking ending up hedge bound, all that torque arriving at rear wheels with very little weight over them, all the other caterfields, apart from the Seight seem to use low to medium power engines that use revs to make power rather than forced induction, interested what Caterfield purists make of it ?
Did your missus remark on the state of certain items of your laundry follwing a drive ?
Im not sure where it is now, scoobynet memeber Cino's other half had it a couple of years ago, not too sure if he still does?
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