The Austin AllAggro is featured on James May's Cars of the People BBC2 tonight 9.00pm. https://www.carthrottle.com/post/10-of-the-worst-british-cars-ever-made
You can add Aston Martin DB9 to that list, mine is back at the dealers every month, it's had 5 safety recalls in 15 months. Utter disappointment
ahhh the Allegro, the car with more Vroooooom, had two in my day and both were fine tbh, however the Vauxhall Viva, now that was a piece of **** !
Whilst at college in the early seventies, I was given a ride from Chesterfield to Darlington in a three wheeler Reliant van. It was a particularly blustery day and that thing bounced all over the bloody road. I thought we'd end up getting crushed under a big truck and it was one of the scariest motoring experiences of my life. Subsequent offers of rides home by the van's owner were always politely declined as I figured hitch-hiking was a safer option!
Whereas my Viva was a ****in' brilliant car, started first time everytime - small engine sitting in an engine compartment that was 3x bigger than it needed to be, what a joy they were too work on. You had to keep on top of the bodywork though.
stromberg carb... damn i hated them things especially with the rubber diaphragm in them, always bloody splitting, just read about the reliant, mate of mine had one and we thought it would be a good idea to pile in the back for a trip to Hornsea late at night. **** me with the weight in the back pretty much every time we went round a corner the bloody thing tipped over, lost count at the amount of times we had to put it back upright, oh those halcyon days
Due to having a bike licence before a car one I bought a Bond Bug 3 wheeler, I loved it, the roof hinged via a large pin, in the summer I used to knock the pin through and lift the whole roof off ............ along with umpteen motorbikes I've owned in the past I wish I still had it.
I had a green Allegro GT, it seized a week after I bought it and as it only cost me £80 and I hadn't registered it, I just abandoned it in Willerby Square car park. A few days later I mentioned it to a bloke at work that it had broken down and I couldn't be arsed to get it fixed and he offered me £100 for it.
There's some daft cars on that list, a decent Delorean will cost you £35k today and a good Carmargue anywhere from £40-75k.
My first car was a Triumph Vitesse convertible, I loved that car even though it was a rust bucket. My worst car was an imported RX7 that was running at something stupid like 400bhp, it was fantastic to drive but unfortunately every time I took the ****er out something broke, it cost me a fortune in replacement parts, eventually I sold it to some poor unsuspecting Manc, I often wonder if it made it the whole way down the M62.
Rex's are awesome cars, not for amateurs. The rotary engines take a lot of TLC, everything needs keeping on top of (specially the ignition system) and they can't be used incorrectly whatsoever - no short trips to the shop.
Especially the Rover 200 series. I must say though that in 1986 I had a brand new Montego 2.0 Turbo, it was allegedly the fastest four door production car on the road at the time, it had ****ing wicked torque steer, if you set off quick from the lights you had to grip the steering wheel firmly otherwise the ****ing thing would be mounting the pavement in an attempt to kill unsuspecting pedestrians.
given the age group on here and the cars already mentioned do we all remember the TR7, loose cannon that one, rear wheel drive meant ya put your foot down and fishtailed the ****er all over
My first car was a 1.4 8v Corsa. I made it an exhaust out of scaffolding and drilled big holes in the air box, it sounded like a rally car and shot big flames out of its arse. It lasted about two months.
