Worst car you've driven lately?

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Rented a Toyota Etios on Tuesday (not sure which year or model). I really haven't driven such a POS in a while, everything feels cheap inside there and it has a terrible clutch (although that may have just been because it was an abused rental). The center console is also in the middle of the dash and is very difficult to read the dials, it looks like a supermarket toy department designed it.

The only redeeming quality is that the engine was at least nippy enough.

Honestly don't know how after a test drive in that car anyone would want to buy one new.

No offense to Etios owners, but the car sucks bad :D
 
Polo vivo, everything is basically old crap from other cars, at-least it had bluetooth.

Have not driven etoss or datsun go yet.
 
Kia Picanto (probably the cheapest model) that I got as a rental while my car was in for repairs.

Going to OR Tambo, I felt like the car would fall apart above 100km/h.

Also old Mazda 323 of a friend at night, I could see maybe 5m ahead with these headlights. Really a scary drive.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Rented a Toyota Etios on Tuesday (not sure which year or model). I really haven't driven such a POS in a while, everything feels cheap inside there and it has a terrible clutch (although that may have just been because it was an abused rental). The center console is also in the middle of the dash and is very difficult to read the dials, it looks like a supermarket toy department designed it.

The only redeeming quality is that the engine was at least nippy enough.

Honestly don't know how after a test drive in that car anyone would want to buy one new.

No offense to Etios owners, but the car sucks bad :D
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I had a same experience with an Etios also from the Burma Lake Toyota branch, what a rubbish clutch and even gears.
Was not nice, but they are nippy and good performing cars, better than the Corolla cause the body is lighter, Sedan model , yes.

Probably a previously bad driver who messed it up. Thank God i didnt buy it.

There most probably are better Etios 'es.
 
Another vote for the Etios. Terrible handling, feels like a very thin can. Was actually grateful when they gave me a Vivo instead. At least that didn't feel like it would fall apart if you went above 80km/h :o
 
f2wohf said:
Kia Picanto (probably the cheapest model) that I got as a rental while my car was in for repairs.

Going to OR Tambo, I felt like the car would fall apart above 100km/h.

Also old Mazda 323 of a friend at night, I could see maybe 5m ahead with these headlights. Really a scary drive.
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Mazda 323
That was light not comfort :)

give older cars more credit :) they were at least built where they are supposed to be built not like now days because of greed and everybody wanting to make more money . So we save money and let India or whoever build our cars. Who cares about the brand. We making money yeh.
 
Etios, nothing wrong about the engine, but the cheapness of the interior is just too much, i can't believe that we, the people of SA allowed Toyota to get away with that.
 
satanboy said:
Audi A1

tin can
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Interesting you mention it, as it's not anywhere in the same league as an Etios or Go I think there is a specific level of quality you expect getting into an Audi and if it doesn't deliver you notice it. The same is actually true for the Etios as you expect a Toyota to have a certain level of quality, that level isn't very high but the Etios really does go below and beyond. I think my printer is built out of better plastics than the Etios interior.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Rented a Toyota Etios on Tuesday (not sure which year or model). I really haven't driven such a POS in a while, everything feels cheap inside there and it has a terrible clutch (although that may have just been because it was an abused rental). The center console is also in the middle of the dash and is very difficult to read the dials, it looks like a supermarket toy department designed it.

The only redeeming quality is that the engine was at least nippy enough.

Honestly don't know how after a test drive in that car anyone would want to buy one new.

No offense to Etios owners, but the car sucks bad :D
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Actually i also laughed now and yo are right, sorry about the Etios lovers.
"The center console is also in the middle of the dash and is very difficult to read the dials, it looks like a supermarket toy department designed it."
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It does have nip to it and also the Honda Brio Sedan, they both can kick, i tested the Brio 1.2 I think it was, it was maybe a but more better then the Etios for me? i might be wrong.
The Etios i drove though was not clean and it was a put off.
 
Thoughts about Honda Brio. I drive one nice little car smooth driving but Honda, took plastic to a whole new level especially on the old brio with beige interior.

The one I drive with black interior is much better but still feel cheap. Honestly I like brio I have no regrets it's my first car.
 
I always get very scared whenever I hear parents talking about buying their children cars like the etios, Datsun go, Hyundai atos etc. those things feel so cheap and unsafe. I wouldn't want my child in any of them.

But then again I don't have a child
 
epah said:
I always get very scared whenever I hear parents talking about buying their children cars like the etios, Datsun go, Hyundai atos etc. those things feel so cheap and unsafe. I wouldn't want my child in any of them.

But then again I don't have a child
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How many old cars with zero safety features are still on the roads? Tazz, Golf and everything else, my problem with the ones you mentioned is that they cost thousands of rands.
 
Was given an Etios as a rental once, returned it the next day because it was so shyte.... drove a brio once on a test drive and that was almost as bad
 
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