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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Mr Skrunts on 16 July 2009, 07:51:04
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Various threads of best and worst cars.
inc this one http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1247652194/all
It got me to thinking what do we consider to be the worst of vauxhalls attempt at car buildind.
At the moment (Unless reminded otherwise) I think the Belmont was the worst in my eyes.
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I have to disagree with you skruntie, we had 3 Belmonts and 2 of them being GLSi model which had the Astra GTE engine and box and was quite quick for the time. Also they where allways in so much better condition than the GTE's of the time as they where not ragged as much. And with the Irmscher rear spoiler they looked good.
The worst looking car at the moment has to be the Agila.
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It must be the Vauxhall Viva, that rusted away like there was no tomorrow! :o :o :o ;) ;)
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My first car was a Viva 1.3 had no rust at all and drove great. had the car nearly 2 years.
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My first car was a Viva 1.3 had no rust at all and drove great. had the car nearly 2 years.
You were very lucky then GD. The early 1970s Viva's all disappeared very quickly and it is now very rare to see one, unlike contemporary Ford Escorts that are still going around.
The ones I used to see, that were only 5 years old, would have rust spots in the wings, doors, boot lid, bonnet, etc, etc, that would very quickly develop into terminal holes :D :D ;)
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My first car was a Viva 1.3 had no rust at all and drove great. had the car nearly 2 years.
You were very lucky then GD. The early 1970s Viva's all disappeared very quickly and it is now very rare to see one, unlike contemporary Ford Escorts that are still going around.
The ones I used to see, that were only 5 years old, would have rust spots in the wings, doors, boot lid, bonnet, etc, etc, that would very quickly develop into terminal holes :D :D ;)
In defence of Vauxhall on this one, it was all down to the very lazy british worker on the production line for all the rust on Vauxhall's in those days. >:(
I will say no more
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Sorry but got to be the Corsa......
HATE HATE HATE HATE them...............!!!!
The most boring, plasticky chav-owned cars Vx ever did......
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Sorry but got to be the Corsa......
HATE HATE HATE HATE them...............!!!!
The most boring, plasticky chav-owned cars Vx ever did......
:)
agreed.. ;D
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1st Agila was a monstrosity in my book.
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Yes i have to agree on the viva, well the engines anyway. I have lot count of the number of engine changes that i have done because they were worn out at 45,000 miles.
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The most boring, plasticky chav-owned cars Vx ever did......
:)
I just told the wife what you said about her little 03 corsa and there were lots of expletives in her reply ; !! Ha ha ;D
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It must be the Vauxhall Viva, that rusted away like there was no tomorrow! :o :o :o ;) ;)
My first car was a Viva , great car no rust at all...which was a miracle in those times.. :y
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1st Agila was a monstrosity in my book.
Agreed :y
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I agree with you lizzie thay had a lot of rust probs. thank god mine was ok.
and I also agree the corsa is a heap of steaming Brown stuff my wife has got one and the bloody thing is one head ache after another as soon as I get the thing put back together its going on fleabay so dont buy a red 1.0 corsa in fleabay for the next couple of weeks. Lol.
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To be fair to the Viva (of which I have several) you can't get new panels for them now, unlike escorts.
So it looks like less escorts rusted away, but more have been restored. Ford care about heritage, Vauxhall don't :'(
From new the fords rusted just as much, 70's quality was poor all round.
And the engines generally last ok if the oil is changed like clockwork :)
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To be fair to the Viva (of which I have several) you can't get new panels for them now, unlike escorts.
So it looks like less escorts rusted away, but more have been restored. Ford care about heritage, Vauxhall don't :'(
From new the fords rusted just as much, 70's quality was poor all round.
And the engines generally last ok if the oil is changed like clockwork :)
I certainly would agree with that! :y :y :y
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Why has nobody mentioned the shove-it?
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Vectra B and C.
Boring?
Should have had a Toyota badge on them.
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the victor FD was a rust bucket also,front wings & flitch plates[inner wings] rear arches was another rust trap, the ohc lump used to leak oil from the cam carrier, the front screen was one of the first attempts at a bonded screen which used to leak like a teabag, a shame really as they were a nice drive ;)
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frontera >:(
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It must be the Vauxhall Viva, that rusted away like there was no tomorrow! :o :o :o ;) ;)
Surely it was this ......
They were rotting aas they left the show room ;D ;D ;D
clicky (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Vauxhall_Victor_101_FC_reg_May_1967_1594_cc.JPG&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vauxhall_Victor_101_FC_reg_May_1967_1594_cc.JPG&usg=__qjZZNprun1xxg0O845SteS2L16Y=&h=1718&w=2863&sz=1732&hl=en&start=12&sig2=W40ZOqQsqv6XpA6XoPPr0w&tbnid=fdmLZV8YXp32KM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvauxhall%2B101%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den&ei=P51fSquxOsmLjAeR6ZDRDQ)
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1st Agila was a monstrosity in my book.
Agreed :y
Can't immediately think of anything worse :(
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Oh crikey, loads to choose from.
first of the Belmonts (MKII Astra). Probably the only car I've owned that I truely hated.
Meriva. What were they thinking. Then putting a 1.4 petrol engine in it.
Vectra-B - like the Focus, only deemed good because its predecessor was so poor (or old in Vx's case_
Vectra-C - much like above. Vectra-C is OK with less powerful engines in all fairness.
Nova Saloon. Why?
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frontera >:(
I'd blotted that heap from my memory....
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frontera
I'd blotted that heap from my memory...
like a bad penny etc etc
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How dare you call the viva Lizzie
My 1256cc H.C. took 5 of us to Spain and back in 1982 nooooo worries at all
Sunburst Yellow with Brown/Orange stripe worth every penny of the £1495 paid LOL:)
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Going back to the title of the thread
Yeahhhhhh NOVA
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omega
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because if i didn't have an omega i would not waste SO much of my life on this site ;D
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Why has nobody mentioned the shove-it?
HS and even the little engine ones are RWD
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Going back to the title of the thread
Yeahhhhhh NOVA
Any chance you could reduce the size of your avatar (see forum guidelines at top of each section for maximum sizes).
Doesn't bother me personally, but some deranged souls are under some (incorrect) illusion that Firefox etc is more secure, and Firefox cannot deal with avatars larger than our forum guidelines say :y
Also, in the rush to always have the latest and greatest, some people are using IE8 which also struggles with larger avatars.
Cheers
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Going back to the title of the thread
Yeahhhhhh NOVA
Any chance you could reduce the size of your avatar (see forum guidelines at top of each section for maximum sizes).
Doesn't bother me personally, but some deranged souls are under some (incorrect) illusion that Firefox etc is more secure, and Firefox cannot deal with avatars larger than our forum guidelines say :y
Also, in the rush to always have the latest and greatest, some people are using IE8 which also struggles with larger avatars.
Cheers
why don't you force the widths of avatars in the stylesheet?
one of the worst vauxhalls has got to be the meriva. it's like a corsa, prentending to be a citroen xara picasso. awful on every level.
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1st Agila was a monstrosity in my book.[/quote
isnt the agila a rebaged suzuki??