What’s the worst courtesy car you've been given??

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Oct 27, 2004 | 08:51 PM

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Cyberevo

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When I smashed up my Sti1 many years ago (5 days after buying it, guted) I was given a Pink Skoda Fabia diesel. This is the only car the goes slower down hill...

It was in the days before Skoda started to become hip again.... Guys at work took photos of it and then photoshoped some really funny pics with me in it and printed them off at work and put them around the office..

Oct 28, 2004 | 09:35 AM

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Valkeerie

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Originally Posted by TomCat

Worst - a horrible purple Justy from Tiley's of Bristol. Had it twice.

What's annoying is seeing other people getting nice shiney WRXs from Tiley's of Bristol as courtesy cars....

If it happens again I'm off to those nice people at PowerStation in Cheltenham to have it serviced - they did a great job on the suspension & are really nice people too - we traded "cars I've rolled" storys afterwards, and agreed Bridgestone tyres were cr*p. Couldn't top his story of trashing EVO magazine's Noble on the way to the South of France!!!

I've just spent 5 days in the 'orrible purple Justy from Tileys. It took 2 days to stop activating the windscreen wipers when changing lane, and now I'm back in the WRX I've gone hysterical and randomly do the windscreen wipers, indicators, high beam and wing mirror adjustments whenever I change lane.

Once I got over the smell and the 1965 Austin Mini build quality, I found it could be thrashed to death. It went around corners as if the front and rear wheels were having a discussion as to who should let go first. "After you!" "No no, you go first, I insist" etc.

It was nippier than I would have expected. Haven't a clue what the AWD is for though, unless the main market is for people going to midnight raves in muddy fields.