I like driving in my car...
I haven't, unfortunately, been party to many really crap cars. Car history, in no particular order...

A peacock blue 1995 Rover 414Si which cost £200. It was torched, sadly - great car, but not very 17 y/o boy racer at the time. Especially with the nice Rover wheeltrims.

A white 1997 Hyundai Accent 1.3Si which was passed on from a mate who lost his license... so completely terribly bad it lasted no less than four weeks before I drained the oil and ran it until it siezed. It had a handbrake only one rear wheel, steering play somewhat akin to an oil tanker, and handling so disturbing it scared me.

A black 2004 Peugeot 206 1.1LX which I had for about 5 months, not bad, but not great. Excellent heaters...

I then started to go upmarket...

My first new car, a Ford Focus 1.6 with an auto box, had its arse caned for the three years and in the 60k miles I had it only had two services, sipped oil (drank fuel like there was no tomorrow right enough) and never missed a beat barring the garage failing to fix it properly after accident damage. It was always kept tidy, so I was sad to see it go. It was cheap (well under list price, got it for about £10200.)

Worst decision of my car driving life. Took it in for a service, and Uncle Arnold Clark was having a sale. Mmmmm... new Focus... so I signed on the dotted line and got a brand new Focus 1.8 with a manual gearbox, 17 inch alloys, the works. It drinks more oil than petrol, already needs the brakes done at 5200 miles, has a scarily huge flat spot midway through the rev range, has an on board computer which reads a mix of metric and imperial units and has tyres which are no less than £155 a corner. Tat, yes... cheap... £6500 plus the old Focus.

*cries*
(clearasmud, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 11:56, Reply)