Dave Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 As the title says, what's the best car you've owned and what was the worst! Include a photo if you have any, if not pinch one from the interweb of same car/model etc. If you're stuck between two that you consider your best, then you can have two! lol My best car: Ruby my Honda Civic MB6 Vti and DD, my Civic Aerodeck My worst......Vauxhall Astra mk2 2 door! Was an absolute pig of a car.....1.3 auto, gearbox packed in after 1 month, car was rotten from front to back (looked lovely, but rust had been hidden underneath the car so inner wings, floor, sills etc were basically just fibreglass and filler! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_broon Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Brill topic! Well, spookily similar to you, but my best is my deck (the spirit lives on...), and my worst was a J reg 1.6 cavalier.... Looked pretty much like this... A £300 death trap of a car that I bought after killing my eg with a signpost, and did 350 miles a week in until the MOT tester condemned it. I'll take a photo of the fail sheet tomorrow 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 Haha, looking forward to the fail sheet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkyMB1 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 The best cars iv owned have got to be my current civic sr and my old 1986 micra K10. Both really fun to drive. The micra was a real head turner, everywhere I went with it there was always someone asking about it. The worst has to be the suzuki alto, It broke down almost every week and did 0 to 60 in about 3 working days. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 Love your Civic, and that K10 Micra is amazing. Proper first gen too with the high back seats, can remember these in the showroom when they were brand new. That one you had looks awesome mate, what happened to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkyMB1 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 It looked amazing but the engine not so much. After spending hundreds trying to fix a cutting out issue and getting a different car I sold it. Apparently the new owners imported it to New Zealand and I haven't heard of it since. Really loved that thing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiNK43 Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Hmm best car... best m I've had was my green aerodeck for sure. Loved that til someone drove into it. But probably have to say the overall best is our ford bmax. Literally never had to spend a penny on it apart from servicing and tyres. And gets abused by my Mrs for 30k miles every year. Call her Lucie Hamilton cus she has a heavy right foot. Worst is easy.. baught a honda jazz as a runabout had a couple small niggles thaught ok can sort this. Had so much wrong with it. Leaking everywhere. Coolant pipes burried in the bay. Rotted through and covered in gaffa tape. Gearbox s**t itself. Then developed some nasty knock.. couldnt for the life of me find it. Then eventually found it was the subframe knocking. Two of the bolts had been blasted in and cross threaded and left a bit of play in the subframe. Then luckily someone put it out of its misery by nicking the cat. Thank god haha. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 Be gone little troublesome Jazz, be gone! Oh, you've gone....bye bye Jazz lol To be fair, I had a Jazz (think it was 2nd Gen) as a courtesy car when Lexy was in getting her paint all sorted. Really liked it, but it was brand new so probably different ball game. Only thing was, it was an Auto, and I had the cruise control on (like I normally did in the Civic) and it came to a hill. Sitting there daydreaming as we cruised along and all of a sudden it hit the kickdown and took off like a truck had hit it's arse! Got such a bloody fright! lmao Going uphill,it had dropped below what I'd set the cruise control at, so unlike Lexy, didn't just accelerate but dropped a gear and gave it beans!! lol Still a nice wee car though if I'm honest. If I could just have the jdm import one, the sport with the 1.5 supercharged engine, bright yellow paint, body kit etc.....they look sweet! Said to Gayle after I handed back the Jazz I wouldn't mind getting one.......................she said "you'll be sitting in that yourself then grandad!" lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiNK43 Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Haha yeah proper oap mobille the new ones. Quite like the first gens tho generally. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_broon Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Always feel like they missed a trick not making a type r jazz - could have been an awesome little go kart.. Would have been interesting to see what a revvy k16/18 might be like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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