..just fooling around with a new project and need some help..

Can you list your top 10 best and worst cars, something like this..

Best

1. Impreza (of course)
2. Ferrari Enzo
3. Lambo murcialawhatsit..
4. Skyline
5. Etc etc
Worst

1. Citroen Saxo
2. MG Maestro
3. Delorean
4. Civic Type R shopping car
5. etc etc

just need to have quick indication of the worlds best/worse cars.. don't forget skodas, trabants, Porsche 959's Merc SL gulwings ...yadda yadda

 

Why the Delorean at no 3, it wasnt that bad ?

 

novas are the worst cars by far

 

1. Mclaren F1


There are no others...

 

Worst car I have ever driven was a peugeot 307 1.4hdi Shocking piece of ****

Best cars:

Ferrari F40
McLaren F1

 

Have you ever driven a CTR WWSD?

Best:
1. Ford GT40
2. Porsche 959
3. Porsche GT3
4. BMW 3 series CSL
5. Honda NSX
6. Honda Integra Type R
7. RS Cosworth (undecided if it should be a 'scort or sierra)
8. Bentley Continental T (just for the 600lb/ft)
9. Ferrari 250GTO
10. AC Cobra
10. Jaguar XJS (not for the car, but the fact that although it was slated it could out pace every other car on the track in the ETC even when it did twice the pit stops and that the chassis still lives on in the DB7 - couldn't have been that bad then)

I would add to the worst cars:

1. Rover Streetwise
2. Rover CityRover (yet to drive...but I'm sure it's crap)
3. Rover/Austin Metro
4. Austin Princess
5. Austin Abassador
6. Morris Marina/Ital
(I'm seeing a trend here )

7. Aston Martin Virage (yes - that is the car that the Vantage is built on, you drive one and then tell me what YOU think)

8. Vauxhall Corsa (It's far worse to drive than the Nova

9. Vauxhall Vectra

10. Suzuki X90

 

The Mk1 Lotus Cortina, with sorted A bracket, was the Scooby of its time.

Les

 

Personal opinion only...

Best:

1. McLaren F1
2. Porsche 959 Turbo
3. Ferrari F355
4. Jaguar E-Type
5. Mark 1 RS2000 Escort
6. Mini Cooper (original)
7. Porsche 911 RSR 1973
8. Audi Quattro Turbo
9. Subaru Impreza 22B
10. Audi RS2

Worst:

1. Reliant Kitten
2. Austin Maestro
3. Morris Marina
4. Ford Scorpio
5. Fiat Multipla
6. Suzuki Vitara
7. VW Beetle (new)
8. Subaru Impreza Bugeye (unmolested)
9. Chrysler PT Cruiser
10. Nissan Sunny

 

What a coincidence, Junes Top Gear mag has a little supplement with the world worst cars in it in order.

number one is that awful Suzuki jeep thing is it called the XC 90 or something?

STEVE..........

 

10 Best:

The usual exotica etc.

10 Worst:

1. Citroen 2CV
2. Citroen 2CV
3. Citroen 2CV
4. Citroen 2CV
5. Citroen 2CV
6. Citroen 2CV
7. Citroen 2CV
8. Citroen 2CV
9. Citroen 2CV
10. Citroen 2CV

 

LOL

Oh and yes I've driven a CTR (so has my granny) - I only added it there as an example so don't wet yer pants over it

 

I know the Austin Rover stuff wasnt the best but everything was pretty crap back then, nobody mentions the Mini as it is now a hallowed product but lets not forget, they were crap as well, dangerous rusty little piles of poo. What about Hillman Avengers, Vauxhall Viva's and Alfa Suds, all crap, just seems the Maestro and its ilk are so much a target for being crap that nobody notices anything else, still happens nowadays, they do turn out some old designs but they are basically alright, they arent a BMW so you cant compare them, when a Rover product goes wrong its crap, when a BMW warps another head or the bores disentegrate nobody mentions it ?


The Rover Streetwise, not to most peoples tastes but why is it any worse than any other soft roader, they are all pointless and useless off road, at least the Rover doesnt bother carting a redundant 4wd system around with it.



Best car, hmmm

MK1 Golf GTI
F40
Fiat 500 (we had one, it was crap but so much fun)
Capri Mk1
Jowett Javelin (British and ahead of its time)
AC Cobra 427
Peugeot 309 (100 quid banger, lasted for years)
Porsche 928 (911's are nice but so obvious)

Worst

Metro GTI (contradicts what I say above but I had one and it was ****)
BMW 3 series (Good car, owners tend to be less good)
Original Mini, still have a soft spot for these, still crap though
Original Beetle
New Beetle
BMW X5, Handsome, well built, obnoxious, pointless, driven by the very selfish
Citroen 2cv, what a steaming pile of plop
Porsche Cayenne, impressive but wrong

 

Hang on - you can't diss the 2CV, Beetle or the Mini as when they were new, they were absolutely revolutionary. They may seem a bit backward now, and a thirty year old Beetle on cross plies is more dangerous than asking Edward Scissorhands to do your flies up, but they are certainly not bad cars.

I would agree with all the Top 10 ones (except that the Audi Quattro needs to be the SWB Quattro Sport) and add the Carrera GT.

Worst cars? Fly to the US, go to the Hertz car park and then take your pick. Any mid range Americal saloon is the height of lamentable, poorly engineered, compromised mediocrity.

 

Surely the Type-25 has to be in the top 10!

 

of the 10 best cars ever.... probably not!

 

Have you ever been in a 2CV? It was like being in a boat in a storm, it rolled so much. I was always suprised that the door handles never scraped on the road going round corners. They were also utterly gutless. You had to thrash the living crap out of it to make it even move slowly. I haven't even touched on the looks.

Also, the irony of 2CV's is that they were often driven by tree-huggers, yet were one of the least environmentally friendly cars on the planet.

FTR, the 2CV wasn't mine, I just had to endure being driven in it.

 

I know I know but it was never meant to be a 911 rival was it? However, as way of getting millions of penniless peasants reliably and cheaply accross the rought post war roads of France, it was a work of genius.

Anyway - back to the plot....

 

Why is that then?

A friend rallys a nova on single venues and often beats scoobs. His is a pretty much out the box 1.3 nova against 4x4 turbo!

Just interested why you dont like them

MJB

 

MJB maybe because they are so chavesque and sport the worst mods on the planet most of the time ??

LOL

 

I'm slightly confused about the Nissan Sunny as being one of the worst.

N13 Sunny's handles superb, and the 1.8LX blew away XR3's and the like, 1.3's had 5 gears whilst the competition (Ford GM etc) had only 4 gears. Is it to do with the Chavish Pulsars or the very bland looks??

Just curious (yes I did own a few)

 

10 best are as:-
1. countach
2.diablo
3.mura
5.rs200 evo
6.sti type r
7.22b
8.F40
9.mac f1
10.murcielago
not in any particular order

my 10 worst are:-
1.2cv
2.trabant
3.lada riva
4.metro(with exception to the 6r4)
5.maestro
6.renault 4
7.fiat panda
8.kia pride
9.nova
10.bluebird
again in no particular order

mike

 

Worst must include....

Zatsava Yugo
Dacia Denham (reprehensible Renault 12 re hash)
Mercedes Vaneo (have they no shame?)
Metro (specifically the MG Metro Turbo - indeed any mid 80's MG)
The J/K reg era Escort
Talbot Matra Rancho (eugh!)
First generation Vauxhall Vectroid
Ford Mustang - that sad 80's one with no curves and a 2.0 asthmatic engine
FSO Polonez (my mate's dad had one when we were about 12 and I used to try and throw a sickie to avoid being taken to school in it)
Vauxhall Frontera - my neighbour has one - she is a) blond b) a hairdresser and c) originally from Southend and it is the shabbiest bit of minging kit ever! (the Frontera that is, she's actually quite fit but that's the subject of a thread that may or maybe not called "have you ever had too many beers and done things that may compromise your relationship with your neighbour but was probably worth it".......

 

lol

 

Ali-B - reason I included the Sunny is because IMO the car is just about average in every department. It's not particularly fast, looks woefully bland, isn't that comfortable, doesn't handle that well, isn't that economical etc. etc. Just "bleugh". Hence it's in my list. Okay?

 

Best:

1. F355
2. 205 1.9 GTi
3. Rs200
4. Rs500
5. 22B
6. AC Cobra
7. GT40
8. AXGT (honest)
9. Noble M12
10. Original Mini

Worst:

1. Maestro
2. Montego
3. Metro
4. Any Lada
5. 2CV
6. Fiat Multipla
7. Bugeye (insult to the classic)
8. Countach
9. Ferrari 456
10. Volvo 240

 

Thank **** Brun got the No.1 spot right for the best of all time

I have had a play in one and its just problem is i cant really compare it near to anything apart from being a passenger in a 550 which was also

 

- go and ask Porsche's accountants and see if they agree with you

Too many cars for both lists but in the top 10 best, you would have to include a 911 (which one though - original RS, GT3 (mk 1) GT3 RS?) or Carrera GT too many.

In the worst 10 - no doubt my number one worst car would be a Rover 800 - shockingly bad, closely followed by the non-turbo diesel Rover 400 - bad beyond words (and the sodding cars broke down on me twice, leaving me stranded on the M40 and the M25 - not good).

Chris

 

ahhhhh getting some decent answers at last..

expect a website to appear in next few weeks running global opinion polls on all things automotive..

Mike - that was a bit biased LOL

 

LOL

 

Fair enough....blow up the tyres next time