"bugattatra - parallel double-park that muthafucka sideways" (bugattatra) 08/23/2013 at 03:07 • Filed to: None

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . What's yours, and why?

"For starters, the seats were made of two massive, flat, limp pieces of foam covered with school-bus grade beige vinyl. They pivoted in the middle and slid back and forth but sucked regardless of their position, allowing your whole body to slide laterally during even modest cornering. 20 mile drives would leave your back aching like you spent the day moving house. The quality of everything you saw, touched, or controlled was appallingly low. I remember the dash has mold flash lines an eight of an inch high and hard enough to cut skin, and it all fit like together like a Soviet knock off Optimus Prime - the tape deck once popped out of the dash as it twisted through a long on-ramp."

Burrito de EJ25 > bugattatra - parallel double-park that muthafucka sideways 08/23/2013 at 03:40

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My worst car was an automatic 1990 Honda Accord (sedan). It was my first car.

It wasn't really a terrible car. It was just old, and was probably stolen a couple of times before I owned it. It wasn't mine for very long, though.

It was a Honda, so the build quality was economical , but well put together. Well, except for the windows which would only roll up about 95% and the stereo skipped.

I think that car was stolen a couple of times before I became the owner. It definitely didn't have a clean title as I learned a few months after selling it from a few interesting phone calls.

For a little Mexican dork in LA, it did mean freedom. I didn't get much of a chance to bond with, but she was my first, and for that she has a special place in my heart.

Oh, and it was brown. And the motorized seat belts almost choked me to death.

Dann > bugattatra - parallel double-park that muthafucka sideways 08/23/2013 at 04:59

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The worst car I had ever owner was an '88 Nissan Pulsar Vector sedan, similar to above, but a sub-par dark metallic blue cheapo repaint. I bought it from my sister and brother-in-law for $500 - not expecting much, given the track record they have with maintaining their previous cars - to get myself out of a bind as I was between cars ('87 Volvo 740 and '89 Nissan Pintara U12) at the time.

It was plagued with engine-electrical problems from faulty sensors to an overcharging alternator and the interior was sparse, even by 80's econobox standards. On one occasion, it cloaked the Pacific Motorway with a cloud of rich blue smoke after the piston rings started deteriorating. Ultimately it died about six months later by losing oil pressure and seizing whilst driving, and was towed to the salvage yard from there.

davedave1111 > bugattatra - parallel double-park that muthafucka sideways 08/23/2013 at 06:36

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I was going to say that the worst car I ever owned is probably the E30, in its current state. Then I remembered the £25 Corsa I co-owned for a couple of hours a few years ago. It had been abandoned in the work car park for a year or so, so we bought it off the company, ragged it round the private roads on the industrial estate until something went bang, and then scrapped it for slightly more than we'd paid.

Ours was purple, not red, but the paintwork was at least as faded in that pic.

PS9 > bugattatra - parallel double-park that muthafucka sideways 08/23/2013 at 08:02

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If the car you're shopping for looks like this...

...and you pop the hood and see this...

RUN. No, actually don't run. Walk to the gas station, get some matches, go back, and set it on fire.

It's jail time definitely, but you'd be doing a public service.

Aloha Milkyway > bugattatra - parallel double-park that muthafucka sideways 08/23/2013 at 08:04

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Our 2004 Honda City. I have no problems with a good old torque converter. What I do have a beef with is with the CVT. The Continuously Vibrating Transmission sapped whatever was left from it's 83 horsepower motor. One day the CVT decided to die on me and, to be honest, the tow truck was better to ride in. The transmission was replaced and pretty much negated all the savings on fuel. Talk about false economy.

Despite being based on the Jazz, it actually didn't handle as well as it and the Jazz with a trunk looks made it look awkward. It was bland, forgettable and ungainly. Honda's Jetta? Perhaps but without the electrical gremlins. At least it had a big trunk.

webmonkees > bugattatra - parallel double-park that muthafucka sideways 08/23/2013 at 08:06

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Except it wasn't. I had progressively gotten all the GT bits (even the rear spoiler, sticker and wheels) without any of the upgrades. Oh wait, there weren't any.

Then the transmission decided to eat half the front between the engine and the wheel. Other things. .

Somehow this wasn't quite the equivalent of a Volkswagen Rabbit, let alone GTi. I guess Ford didn't quite 'get it'.

Due to another circumstance, I had lost my driver's license so FOR SALE

yay its gone