chrysler pt cruiser rental.

complete piece of shit. interior, exterior, driving dynamics, you name it, it had it.

drove from vancouver, bc, to seattle in the pt cruiser, and the car stalled while on an uphill in downtown seattle (bumper to bumper traffic).

i'm like, "wtf, this thing only has 3000kms on it..."

 

Has to be the rental Pontiac G6. It looked OK, but it had a 3.5L engine producing JUST 200bhp! How did they manage to get so little power from such a huge engine? Foot down and nothing happens. The awful automatic gearbox didn't help either. I don't know why they even bothered building the thing.

The Chevy/Daewoo Aveo was pretty bad too, but at least you expect it to be.

 

worst cars i have ever driven..

- ford escort - all of them sucked ... my dad had one.. almsot lost control of it on the freeway because the car would "float" around
- chevy spectrum - the alternator fell out .. it just fell out one day when i was driving.. my sister and i were driving home and were like "wtf was that noise... uh oh" and the car stoped moving .. lol
- my girls ol malibu - at 60k the car just seemed like it was faling apart.. everything broke.. traded it in and got her a toyota solora.. man that car was a POS..

i still dont understand why so many american car manufaturers make such crap.. i dont understand how they approve the design of half of the cars they put out on the road..

 

No- I disagree. I drove one today and will be driving it for another week during minor body work on my car.

The PT Cruiser isn't close to being eligible for this list. The exterior is OK, the interior center stack is plasticky, but not unexpected for the price class, and the instrument panel is decent. The car is not quiet and the strained engine sounds like a tractor engine, but the PT Cruiser is still a better car than the Neon, Stratus and Cavalier rentals I've driven as the suspension seems tighter and better sorted on the PT.

 

you would think that the toyota yaris would be a pos to drive, but it's a great car for it's price.

 

the work truck.......
84 dodge ram, 1st and 3rd syncros were shot, so you had to leave at a roll from 2nd gear. it had rust holes the sizes of a fist thru-out the truck. no a/c,radio and the wind shield wipers worked as well as a diaper full of shit smearing across the windshield.

 

Oldsmobile Firenza what you've never heard of it? Neither had I.



what a POS! or my first car 1988 Plymouth Grand voyager

 

Some of you guys need to go out and drive shittier cars

nice.

 

oh yea, i forgot about the 93' chrysler concorde i had the pleasure of driving when my pathfinder broke down a few times. It had rust holes throughout the trunk, the passenger door panel was missing a lot of parts, and you had to hold it on to open the door, or else you just pull the whole panel off. The a/c didn't work, and it just blew hot air the whole time, even with the vents closed, which isn't fun in hawaii when it's constantly like 85degrees and 90% humidity. One window worked, none of the seats moved, so it was a real stretch to hit the pedals, and the brakes barely stopped the car. It was constantly running on one full size spare, and another tire that had the sidewall plugged, and the plug was slowly coming out. I spent some money on a new tire since I was driving it for a few weeks, but once I got my new car, it got towed, and never heard from again, but I want my tire back

Although that 96' pathfinder left me stranded overheated on the side of the road like 4 times in 6 months, even after replacing the radiator and thermostat. so I really don't consider that a good car either. But when I actually could drive it, it wasn't that bad.

 

hyundai pony, by a long shot

 

never heard of it

 

I had a mid 80's Old Ciera Station wagon that was a pain in the ass.. Power steering stuff was messed up, so it kept throwing belts...

 

I had $50 cars with rusted out holes in the floors (76 pinto) and gas tank patched with jbweld (70 AMC javelin)...

And I actually liked those cars

 

Either my grandmas 81 S-10 or an early 80s Buick Skylark or whatever the hell it was. It similar to that Oldsmobile monstrosity posted above.

I had to drive those death traps when my Accords were in the body shop.

 

Out of all of the cars I've owned, in order:

1978 VW Rabbit w/ GTi swap
1987 Chevy Blazer
1977 Chevy Camaro
1996 Chrysler Cirrus
1985 Mazda GLC
1988 Honda Accord LXi
1996 Honda Civic LX
1986 Honda Civic sedan
1986 Honda Civic Si

plus the cars in my sig...

The biggest POS, sincerely, was the Suzuki Aerio. Sure, my older cars had the sunroof welded shut and questionable safety issues (the Rabbit and Camaro spring to mind) but I only paid $650 and $1500 for them, respectively.

I bought the Aerio with 5 miles on the clock, modded it slightly but babied it for the most part, the damn thing went through 2 engines in 60k miles (well documented oiling issues with the 2.0l block from early models), exterior trim pieces falling off at random, AC that decided when and where it wanted to work, etc etc etc.

After the second engine let go, I left it at the dealership and bought my 1989 Civic for $2k cash, and it has given me less problems than the Aerio.

 

Damn missed the edit timeframe...I see a lot of people bagging on Neons...my buddy had a 1G DOHC "Sport" coupe that was a gigantic pile...paint came off in sheets, tranny fell to bits, interior the same...however, my ex had a 2002 RT (not SRT, just a normally aspirated RT), that we actually enjoyed...we dogged the shit out of it for 2 years and it ran like a champ, never had an issue with it at all. A little "cheap" and chintzy compared to it's import contemporaries, but a much nicer car than we expected it to be in the long run.

 

at the rabbit. One of my earliest memories is me sitting in the car with my mom, and the window handle breaking off in her hand as she rolled it up after talking to my dad.

 

i want to test drive the new 08 Rabbit, has anyone test driven that yet?

 

It seems like all American cars are built from cardboard held together by snot. Not many manufacturers can full this off with SO many cars

 

that fierenza is one ugly car.

 

2 friends have it. IMO it is much better than the Civic. Better build, better interior quality, a bunch of little useful features, more power, etc. Just slightly crappier gas mileage.

 

Yes the Rabbit is way better than the Civic. You see the civics every where

 

I feel sorry for you man, That POS is disgusting hhahahhahaa

 

94 chevy corsica

1990 civic wagon

 

Current predominantly rental car crop (PT Cruiser, G6, Versa, Impala, Sebring etc) are "great" compared to the rental cars of just 10 years ago.

Worst rental cars I've had, probably a tie between a 97 Blazer and 94 Acheiva.

Worst car I've driven was a 1985 Hyundai Pony, what a POS. Had black smoke coming into the passenger compartment via the glove box area after it was ony 4 years old.

 

about a 92 geo prizm during a chicago blizzard. it was a friends and we were at another friends house. the battery was dead and they didnt know how to jump a car so I fell on the grenade and took up the responsibility of driving it back to the kids house and trying to prevent it from dying on the street.

 

My 1979 Chrysler Cordoba..... (similar to what is pictured)



I think there were many boats that floated less than this pig.

Cornering? Um, yeah, right. And it was my first car, $500, and I bought it from my brother. It served me well in HS and my first year in the Army. But damn if my whole paycheck didn't keep it alive every month.

 

Lemme guess....318 two barrel?

My mom had a '79 Diplomat with that engine. 140hp on a perfect day only. A lot less than that at all other times.

 

worst- 95 Ford Ranger.

No A/C, holes in the roof patched with bondo, a frame that was almost rusted through, trashed interior, came out one day and the brake lines had somehow leaked out and i had almost no peddle pressure. Came out another time and literally overnight the staps for the gas tank rusted out into a pile of dust on the driveway!

98 E250 van- 250k+ miles, nuff said it was a boat, i can't see how anybody drives these so long, our old 7.3 diesel Excursion was a handler compared to it!

 

Hell, ive driven some real Winnars.

I thought the 1965 duce and a half truck with a 10 speed manual gearbox and no power steering was pretty goddamn bad, but then I helped an ex-girlfriend move and someone had loaned her a 1970 ish Ford F150. That fucker had a manual 3-speed on the COLUMN. And the steering wheel would go a full half turn around before anything happened. Only time I have really been scared driving.

Then there are the cars I have driven that were just bad but not scary bad.
My friends '89 suburu Justy. Couldnt do more than 45mph going over the bridge. My grandmothers 85 Aries-K. That thing was crap from day one.
My friends dodge with a slant-6 engine that didnt have any floorboards and only one of the 4 doors opened.
My Driving school car was a Pinto that had the throttle set so high that if you took your foot off the break on a flat surface, the car would idle to 30MPH.
My ex had a Chevette, no more need be said there.
I learned to drive standard on a 1985 Ford Ranger, pure crap right there.

I never drove a Yugo but I have a good Yugo story. Friend of mine had one and one winter day he was parking his car and hit a curb at about 5-7 mph. The steering wheel broke off in his hands and the windshield popped out and smashed on the hood of the car. No real structural damage but he still had to have the car towed away.

 

^^

 

 

i really think this takes the cake

 

Driving a Maruti Suzuki 800, had no a/c, shitty transmission, and was so light you could steal it by a dude picking up each corner of the car. Drove this thing in india after my buddy passed out after drinking a wee bit to much, and i didn't know how to drive a manual. I got stuck in traffic for an hour and probably killed the clutch on it, and then got to the highway where I drove this thing at top speed, maybe around 70 MPH and the car was shaking, like it was about to start flying at any minute...

here's a pic of it:

 

pt fukin cruiser

 

Ladies and gentlemen, we may have a winner here

That story is so good it doesn't really matter if it happened to Tzar or not.

 

Ohhh Yesssss... It was a 318, Tourqueflite tranny, and it was slow and uneconomical. The best of both worlds..... :wink:

 

i drove a hyundai accent once, terrible car.

 

Well, if we're on Yugo stories.... I helped a friend of mine at Ft. Gordon change his tranny. My Army buddy and I leaned over the quarter panels and supported the engine while he was underneath changing out the transaxel. All we did was make sure the block didn't crush him. I never thought that was possible, but it worked.

 

the sebring convertible (current) was probably the scariest car i've ever driven (think.. quick turning with floppy suspension). VERY easy to get it twitching