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.

POS x10

 

My TVR Chimaera; sh&t brakes; heavy clutch; overheating engine; sh&t visibility & stupid power steering on the motorway, anything over 70mph & your fuc&ed!!

 

mini cooper s... a fecking nightmare if you wanna get in the reverse gear.. clutch pedal is real hard too..

 

Seems you've enjoyed life!

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!

 

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!

 

Without a doubt, this...



Hated bumps, hated changing gears, hated stopping, hated pulling away.

I LOVED IT!!!!

Best driving fun ive ever had, lol.

 

I droveone in Greece, utter **** heap but loads of fun, no brakes and quite a fruity engine/no weight made it terrifying.

 

I agree, my GP mk1 swb is the same. Infact it would oversteer or understeer depending on what it felt like at the time! I once had understeer on a roundabout then oversteer - no I didn't lift off to induce it either. I think it was the off road tyres! I went round the same roundabout again to check the road for oil etc and I managed to get lift off oversteer - which is impossible to catch, but it was only at about 15mph!

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!

 

My old rear wheel drive Sierra Cosworth with 320bhp in the wet, ended up going sideways many times, and my mates 1932 MG tc went ok just didn't stop !

 

I used to love the near death experineces of driving of a single piece of gravel and being thrown towards the hedge at about 50mph, lol. Ive never driven so slow in anything and been so alive!

 

This:



With this under the bonnet:





330bhp Stage 3 Cosworth turbo....... bloody car would spin the rear wheels at 100mph in the dry!

 

my old 306 xsi, so twitchy on the back end - had no confidence in it whatsoever!

 

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 ?

 

Well, I owned it for a suprisingly long time, the bloody thing was a beast, saying it was quick would be a serious understatement, like being shot off of an elastic band! Full throttle was pretty much a straight line only affair, having the back step out at 3 figure speeds was a common occurance, accelleration so hard it used to take your breath away.

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?