I've owned loads of awful cars, picking the worst is difficult lol!
1.4 306 probably, 2nd car I bought, most expensive 306 I have ever bought even now and was an absolute heap, ruined by the previous owners in just 9 years/60k somehow! Blown headgasket, popped rad hose, check strap snapped, stop light kept coming on, squeaky BJ, cheap uncomfortable lowering springs, broken beam, limo tints that you couldn't see a thing through...bad decision that one! Only owned it a matter of weeks, had HG fixed by a garage who didn't do it right imo (I knew less about cars then) and sold it on at major loss to someone who rolled it a month later, probably the biggest loss I've ever made on a car, far more than any of the VAGs etc!
Vectra was also pretty awful, but it did have some redeeming features (DAB & auto dimming drivers mirror basically lol, and it did stick to corners well tbf). Poor on fuel, terrible on the motorway with noise and rattles, horribly uncomfortable due to the rear bounce, snapped a spring and wrecked a tyre between me buying it and driving it. But I sold it on a year later for what I paid so not all bad.
Avensis was horrible, I hate Jap interiors for a start, and there was something rotten in the centre console cubby which admittedly isn't the cars fault, poor road holding at any speed and wallowy cornering but did do over 40mpg which is good for a 1.8 petrol tbf.
106 NAD tried to kill me several times with shitty brakes and no ABS on budget tyres, driveshaft broke due to a poor cv boot boot repair and was a complete arse to change as it seized to the hub meaning I ended up changing that too, and the TRE which broke during removal all of which in monsoon weather, terrible acceleration and didn't tow a trailer of rubble overly well, had a snapped glowplug so had to cold start at WOT and fill the street with smoke lol. But even that had redeeming features, 67mpg and would hold 90mph quite well when it eventually got there, sold that on for what I paid as well iirc.
So yeah looks like the worst by far was a 306, oops.
1.4 306 probably, 2nd car I bought, most expensive 306 I have ever bought even now and was an absolute heap, ruined by the previous owners in just 9 years/60k somehow! Blown headgasket, popped rad hose, check strap snapped, stop light kept coming on, squeaky BJ, cheap uncomfortable lowering springs, broken beam, limo tints that you couldn't see a thing through...bad decision that one! Only owned it a matter of weeks, had HG fixed by a garage who didn't do it right imo (I knew less about cars then) and sold it on at major loss to someone who rolled it a month later, probably the biggest loss I've ever made on a car, far more than any of the VAGs etc!
Vectra was also pretty awful, but it did have some redeeming features (DAB & auto dimming drivers mirror basically lol, and it did stick to corners well tbf). Poor on fuel, terrible on the motorway with noise and rattles, horribly uncomfortable due to the rear bounce, snapped a spring and wrecked a tyre between me buying it and driving it. But I sold it on a year later for what I paid so not all bad.
Avensis was horrible, I hate Jap interiors for a start, and there was something rotten in the centre console cubby which admittedly isn't the cars fault, poor road holding at any speed and wallowy cornering but did do over 40mpg which is good for a 1.8 petrol tbf.
106 NAD tried to kill me several times with shitty brakes and no ABS on budget tyres, driveshaft broke due to a poor cv boot boot repair and was a complete arse to change as it seized to the hub meaning I ended up changing that too, and the TRE which broke during removal all of which in monsoon weather, terrible acceleration and didn't tow a trailer of rubble overly well, had a snapped glowplug so had to cold start at WOT and fill the street with smoke lol. But even that had redeeming features, 67mpg and would hold 90mph quite well when it eventually got there, sold that on for what I paid as well iirc.
So yeah looks like the worst by far was a 306, oops.