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[minisilverbullet]

1.0 litre Kia Picanto....




A hateful combination of plastic and tin!!

I had one as a courtesy car for two weeks once, I took it back after a week though as it was far more preferable to walk everywhere!

I am going to have the megane for the next 2 weeks, they did offer me a citroen C3, but i figured the megane was the less of two evils. I also thought it would be better for carrying the dog in. Only to find it plastered in no dog stickers >

[newbambeeno]

I like the way the Ka drives. They're not good cars, but I don't think it's fair to say they're bad to drive.

[minisilverbullet]

Talbot sunbeam, it was like driving around on a jelly, turn the wheel and hope for the best. It eventually died when the front suspension collapsed on one side whilst driving! entertaining it was.

HAHA exactly the same thing happened to me in a Talbot Sunbeam while my mum was driving! The passenger side wheel just decided to turn inwards.

[GTIAlex06]

Drove my mates 1998 fiesta the other day and i can honestly say there was no feeling from any of the pedals or steering. Quite a strange experience.

Theres probably something wrong with it!

It is a bit of a heap...

[cooperdan]

Naaa they are bad to drive,

[AVV IT]

Talbot sunbeam, it was like driving around on a jelly, turn the wheel and hope for the best. It eventually died when the front suspension collapsed on one side whilst driving! entertaining it was.

No Way!!! That was my first car and what's more the Lotus version was a rallying legend!!




That said, it was absolutely useless at going around corners!!

[Carlos W]

Fiat tempra was fairly terrible! I was given it though! I should've known that it wasn't going to be great!

[GTIAlex06]

1.0 litre Kia Picanto....



A hateful combination of plastic and tin!!

I had one as a courtesy car for two weeks once, I took it back after a week though as it was far more preferable to walk everywhere!

I am going to have the megane for the next 2 weeks, they did offer me a citroen C3, but i figured the megane was the less of two evils. I also thought it would be better for carrying the dog in. Only to find it plastered in no dog stickers >

Whats the point in that? A courtesy car that you can use how you want. Not much of a courtesy is it...

[minisilverbullet]

1.0 litre Kia Picanto....



A hateful combination of plastic and tin!!

I had one as a courtesy car for two weeks once, I took it back after a week though as it was far more preferable to walk everywhere!

I am going to have the megane for the next 2 weeks, they did offer me a citroen C3, but i figured the megane was the less of two evils. I also thought it would be better for carrying the dog in. Only to find it plastered in no dog stickers >

Whats the point in that? A courtesy car that you can use how you want. Not much of a courtesy is it...

Exactly

[mini93]

these people listing normaly decent cars...im guessing either the cars shagged or uv not driven alot of cars before....mainly thinking the person who mentioned the new fiesta....guessing it was a below base spec special version?

[Scallywag630]

1979 Chevy Vega and a City Rover...yuk

[AVV IT]

Whats the point in that? A courtesy car that you can use how you want. Not much of a courtesy is it...

But I couldn't use it how I wanted, as the garage wouldn't allow me set fire to it, push it off a cliff or even into a lake for that matter!

Besides, I think the use of the phrase "courtesy car" in relation to a 1.0 Kia Picanto really is a matter for trading standards!! Giving me that car was by far the least courteous thing anyone has ever done to me!!

[1984mini25]

Ka

I quite liked the way a Ka drives. Yes they look horrid and are plasticy and they rust as bad as a mini, but the one i drove handled great, wheel on each corner and all that! 1.3 ford engine wasnt all that bad either.

I like the way the Ka drives. They're not good cars, but I don't think it's fair to say they're bad to drive.

Same, I quite liked the handling of the street ka and a similar spec covetable one, even if the roof did leak.


Think the worst I can think off the top of my head is a Nissan Navara, most gutless, underpowered piece of…

[jinjrich]

these people listing normaly decent cars...im guessing either the cars shagged or uv not driven alot of cars before....mainly thinking the person who mentioned the new fiesta....guessing it was a below base spec special version?

Nail on head mate.

And i'd love to know the basis of comments like 'no feeling from pedals' etc. If theres no feeling from the pedals your missing them with your feet!

[mattso118]

Chevrolet Spark, hateful little car, drove it when my parents had it as a courtesy car and the mini was having some new shoes and trousers. No power, ridiculously vague steering, a ride that managed to be both flobbery and jarring, and I never realised that matalan did car interiors.

The dogs were allowed to go in it, but didnt want to expose them to its ungodly appearance, so I covered their eyes with their ears in an attempt to prevent sick cleaning.


Would love to know how many ponies it produced? Id hazard an ambitious guess at one............................... a shetland pony................................. with arthiritis.

Wouldnt recommend one.