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Courtesy cars

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 7:28 am
by sarah_h
You may all remember my time in a 1 litre Peugeot 107 last summer, well I've surpassed that experience and am now driving a Porsche Fiesta 1.2.

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Thought it would be interesting to hear people's experiences -I've started you off so, best and worst courtesy cars you've ever had then......go!

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 8:47 am
by wurlycorner
:lol: I can't believe they've plastered that in massive Porsche logo's!!!

I had a black Metro Mayfair as a courtesy car once. It was actually... excellent fun to drive! I really liked it! :D

Best Honda courtesy car - current model Jazz
Worst Honda courtesy car - Civic FN Si (cool car and nice enough place to be, but utterly gutless)

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 8:58 am
by lewd lude lover
worst = vauxhell astra vrx

best = merc a class

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 9:17 am
by indigolemon
The Worst = Mondeo TDCi like the one below:
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The interior was made from recycled plastic yoghurt pots and the seats appeared to be designed specifically to cause back pain. Hated that car with a passion.

Most recently, I ended up with this:
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Not utterly terrible, but gutless and has an awful CVT gearbox, so it just gets to an annoying loud droning part of the rev range and sits there as it accelerates. Was glad to see it go!

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 9:42 am
by Shiny
Worse - Vauxhall Astra. So crap that my son wouldn't let his teddy sit in it and left him at home. The teddy went EVERYWHERE with him, but he wouldn't let it in the Astra.

Worse experience - Hyundai Accent Coupe 1.5 GLS in white. I was leaving a car park and a bloke in another car was tooting his horn and waving his arms at me like he wanted sex with me. I couldn't work out why as i didn't know him. Then the penny dropped. He was also driving a white Accent Coupe and had mistaken me as fellow car fan. The shame.

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 11:10 am
by wurlycorner
Never mind the shame... You're among friends, you can admit with impunity that the biggest disappointment about it was when you realised your luck wasn't in with him after all, right? :hurr:

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 11:16 am
by Shiny
Oh no, we still had sex, he just needed to understand i didn't like his car.

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 12:54 pm
by bb1boy
I've only ever had one courtesy car, back in 2003 when I had a 'Lude resprayed, it was a 1993 Proton 1.5 GLS ..it was shocking, so bad I drove it home and just left it there until my car was ready.

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 1:12 pm
by MrsGreeny
Daewoo matiz... Nuff said :facepalm:

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 7:26 pm
by Turbomick1985
had a nissan micra back in 2003 it was a 1.0 ltr eco model and it was right good craic to drive but it was brand new at the time
had a renault megavan a few years before that dont remember why but it was a pure heap of dirt to drive and actually had a catastophic engine failure and was wrote off lol