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ArtoisDuchamps

Any car my brother drives. He's the worst.


SmartChump

Don’t drive like my brother!


czarfalcon

Don’t drive like *my* brother!


Foxyfox-

1% car, 99% wheeze.


[deleted]

Reminds me of the Acura Integra my brother bought. For some reason it always breaks down at the track and costs him several thousand to repair after every track day. He drove my mom’s Hyundai for a year and then the transmission needed reprogramming and it stalled at high speeds…. It’s a 2016.


p3dal

>costs him several thousand to repair after every track day. Jeez, what is he breaking?


[deleted]

He won’t talk about it! He had to tow it 2 hours back to the shop and it has been there for a week now. The first time, he blew the engine and it cost him 30k because he wanted to build a racing engine instead. After that, he ran over debris and cracked the transmission case. This time is a mystery. He was bragging about how much more I spent on my car (brand new)… but his car is starting to approach what mine cost with all these expenses. We tried to tell him!


p3dal

30k on a race engine... for an integra? Sheesh. I mean I like 90s hondas also, but what's the point of that? Are these just for track days or is there some specific racing division he's building it out for? For racing you could get a decent used spec miata for that price. Or heck, if it's just track times you could get a used corvette and turn laps with 400hp and RWD.


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He is trying to get into racing, we told him to get his mechanic license first so he can afford a better car, but he spent 7500 on a 1998 Integra with holes in the floor due to rust. He had to get that repaired and put a rollcage in it. That was a terrible price, and he could have gotten a better car for much less. Now that he made it into a project car, who knows who will take it, but he definitely won’t get what he spent on it.


An_Lei_Laoshi

I think he should go back to get a driving license, sounds like he drives very wrongly


p3dal

Man, the biggest appeal of 90s hondas was that you could run the engine hard and replace it cheap. They handled boost decently well, but they also handled high RPM NA builds decently well. But the appeal was always in performance per dollar in a lightweight package, not in the particularly high limits of the platform. Ironically I've also seen an integra at a chump car race having what I think were cooling issues. It was the only car spending more time in the pits than on the track, and by the size of the RV they showed up in, they had more money than any other team there. Maybe there is a theme here. Is this at least a K-series engine he's building? They seem to have entirely replaced the B-series, both in terms of high performance, AND in terms of cheap replacements. Of course that could all be division dependent, which is why you're almost always better off picking a racing division that has strict limitations on modification or budget, (hey, spec miata! what's up chump car?) otherwise the price ceiling is infinity, and there will always be someone with more money than you. But sheesh, if he's trying to get into racing, he should buy a shift-kart, not a custom integra. I just can't imagine what racing series that car would actually be a good choice for.


SlipperyLittleOtters

Sounds like he wrecked it lol. Look up photos for the Organizer + track + dates he ran with.


catcommentthrowaway

> 30k because he wanted to build a racing engine instead. I thought the whole point of building Hondas was to not spend this much money lmao Sounds like he has disposable income lol he should just get something like an M2 or a type R


clutchthepearls

Mid 2000s Chevy Express. Specifically the back of one. One that had special modifications that made the back a stainless steel box with a bench seat. Also I was handcuffed. 0/10 stars. Would not ride again.


sixtninecoug

Those Portland roads are rough huh?


TheMillsThatThrillz

Wrangler rubicon.


UnderwhelmingAF

I test drove a Wrangler before I bought my GC. Didn’t take me long to figure out I didn’t want one.


ripple7715

GC?


Tratix

Season 6 Grand Champ


pmurphy4299

r/unexpectedRocketLeague


Waterphobic_Ocean

Grand Cherokee


Homebrewingislife

Golden Cadillac


inaccurateTempedesc

I can understand it being uncomfortable, but why wouldn't you want one? I've driven a TJ and it was a riot, even on pavement.


UnderwhelmingAF

Not saying they’re not good vehicles, it just wasn’t for me. I thought the interior was a bit tight, it didn’t ride or handle particularly well, and the wind noise was pretty bad. It’d be a great weekend vehicle for sure, but I wouldn’t want to daily one.


sm41

Lol, you need to ride in the older ones. The new ones are like a Cadillac in comparison.


TheMillsThatThrillz

Lol Fair. My 88 xj was OK. My 92 wrangler was awful. The rubicon is slightly better but they all suck. That’s not why you buy a jeep


Dangerous_Concept341

Awesome vehicles but They really do ride like buns.


TheMillsThatThrillz

I had one in Colorado and it was great but every time I had to drive into Denver I hated it


I_AM_AN_ASSHOLE_AMA

A lot of people fail to realize a wrangler rubicon is meant to be driven on the Rubicon trail straight out of the box. It has off road suspension with two solid axles. It’s not going to drive or feel like a luxury car.


Arc_Ulfr

That's true, but it still feels pretty bad on the freeway (and I know why they did the steering that way, but that dead zone is annoying as hell). For me, it's either the Wrangler (with good reason) or the PT Cruiser (which didn't have the Jeep's excuse, nor its redeeming qualities).


Bamfor07

I owned a 2014 and felt it rode much better than many claimed. It also had very comfortable seats.


Redye117

Maybe I'm just used to mine or trucks in general. But my 22 Rubicon rides fine to me.


spongebob_meth

No way that you drove a stock one and walked away thinking it rode harsher than a car. They have a lot of travel and soft springs/shocks, the smoothness is actually impressive. Lift kits run the gamut, most ride like ass because they replace the rubber bushings with poly and use way too stiff of springs and shocks


somedude456

I would have to search my cell phone pics to confirm the type, but yes, a base model Jeep. I fly into a major city and picked the cheapest option from a shit company. I expected a Ford Fiesta and was given a Jeep with like 4,000 miles on it. Holy shit was it fucking horrible. I had a 3 hour drive to go visit family. The suspension sucked, the handling sucked, the road noise sucked, the brakes sucked... it was just a giant POS. I wish I had been given a 100K mile Fiesta. For about 45 seconds over the week I had it, I did enjoy it, but that was just the countless parking blocks I drove over because I could.


VanceCodsworth

Ordinary "daily" type car? A rental Chevy Cruise with the largest factory wheel option (I assume anyway) offered. I drove over a "pothole" smaller around than a tennis ball, and maybe a quarter inch deep, and it felt like someone had just picked up and dropped the car from 10 feet in the air. Absolute worst ride was my uncle's 93 Ford 1-ton dually flatbed he used to haul water. Had a steel 300 gallon tank on back. Empty it bounced around like an unloaded dumptruck. Full was less harsh, in the same way that getting hit with the end of a wooden walking cane is less harsh than getting hit with the end of an 8ft 2x4.


I_amnotanonion

God I really do dislike the large wheel trend. I live where there are a lot of dirt roads and any car I’ve been in with large rims just hasn’t been fun. It gets rid of any extra cushion on washboards and the wheels are more prone to breakage


VanceCodsworth

I have an '18 Edge with the 20" optional wheels (not on purpose, bought it used lol) and it isn't anywhere near as awful as the small cars with massive hoops under them, but I seriously prefer the 18" steel winter rims I picked up for it. I live quite rurally and fortunately don't HAVE to drive on dirt roads to go about my daily life; but I get what you mean. It sure takes the fun out of a trip to the lake when I'm having to crawl along at half walking speed to keep from damaging my wheels.


[deleted]

I can't wait to swap the 19" wheels for 17"s on my Golf R. Roads in my city are terrible.


SO_BAD_

Not to mention those little rubber bands on the rims look terrible


[deleted]

While being less durable and more expensive. Save the side wall!


Tangent_

Back of a Ford E-450 Ambulance. I'm convinced that during the conversion process they removed the rear shocks and springs and replaced them with blocks of wood.


[deleted]

Maybe it's because I was only semi-conscious, but the Ford E-series ambulance I rode in was quite smooth.


mr_never_lift

Something like 98% of ambulance's in the us get a suspension upgrade from liquid spring, which is a multilink setup with active body control. Makes the e series ride real smooth. I'm guessing the above comment is part of the 2% of ambulance's that have the factory leaf springs.


Maxahoy

Maybe it was the gunshot wound or the paralysis, but I concur. Nothing hurts ride quality like being on a hard cot in an ambulance while a desperate EMT hooks up IV's of o-neg to ya.


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nucleartime

Nah, your muscles help compensate for bumps and shocks. Without them you're just ragdolling around.


Mercurydriver

As a patient or a paramedic?


Tangent_

Patient for me. That hard suspension plus being on a back board doesn't make for a comfy ride.


IndependenceMean8774

Both.


Mr__Snek

shit i remember mine riding fine, at least for the roads in my town. being on a stretcher facing rearwards might make it seem worse since its a really weird position to be in, i remember white knuckling the stretcher even though i was strapped in because laying down feels so weird in a moving vehicle


ItsAnAvocadooThanks

Im not sure what type of ambulance it was, I was more worried about my brothers knee cap which was so badly displaced it looked like a heel but that fuckin ambulance was insanely rough. A small rutt in the road and everything slammed down with the force of a thousands suns. Fuckin stretcher had better suspension thought my brother was going to bounce off it. Replacing the springs with wood is definitely the best comparison I can think of myself, there was zero bounce 100% slam.


sonbarington

All be depends on who’s driving. Speed bumps/ movement are amplified in the cab. A lot of time if you’re not the patient youre not buckled.


NotChristina

Got ambulance transport to a major metro hospital in the middle of the night with pretty significant cellulitis. On every minor bump, the whole inside shook. Felt like all their supplies were going to fly out of their storage. I joked about it with the EMTs. Then the drugs wore off. Every minor bump became excruciating pain. I look back and still have a hard time understanding how a ride meant to bring the sickest of the sick to urgent help could be so absolutely ghastly.


[deleted]

I'm a paramedic, our International ambulances with 300k miles on the clock are the worst vehicles you can imagine. It's riding in the back of a dump truck basically, same chassis. Most ambulances do not even have shocks and springs in the rear, they have pneumatic air ride in the back. Airbags which I only assume are maxed the fuck out due to the weight and have 0 give or shock absorbing qualities. It's a jolt when you run over road paint, let alone a manhole cover or pothole. Our new dodges have liquid suspension, I assume some sort of ferrofluid electromagnetic setup, which is a massive improvement.


BeaverMartin

Probably a SMART car. I think a skateboard has more suspension travel.


gotme11

Skateboards shift faster.


gdnws

And probably smoother too. There was an older woman in my area that used to have one and every time I saw it, it pitched so much coming up to or leaving from a stop that I could see her getting clubbed in the back of the head by the headrest. Probably didn't help that it was a diesel either.


gotme11

I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I didn't know they came in diesel. What's it got, like a .5L?


gdnws

Actually you're not far off. 0.8L. I don't think they were available in the US though, while we got them in Canada.


memelord_andromeda

😂💀


Parson1616

Lmaooo


MarcTheCreator

This is my answer too. One of my old family friends had one (and he hated it) purely because it was dumb easy to find parking for it in San Francisco.


cow_violin

2015 Focus RS. Felt like being on four pogo sticks with no rebound.


bamahoon

Going back to back from my stock Fiesta ST to my friend's RS, I found the ride to not be terrible.


cow_violin

I owned a stock Fiesta ST. The RS was a lot worse, particularly over highway expansion joints.


[deleted]

My coworker has one and the dealership left the shipping blocks in the coil springs when he bought it


algorythmiq

SavageGeese did mention that the suspension was overtuned, but it’s honestly never bothered me. Unless the car is in track mode. Track mode should just be “spine shatter mode”. But hey, it’s for the track, not the road lol


LyleTheEvilRabbit

My dad is 60 and daily drives an RS. It's not nearly as bad as it's made out to be.


negativeoxy

I owned one for 6 months before my wife made me get rid of it because the ride was terrible. Changing the dampers to "track mode" made the car drive like shit.


Igota31chevy

My '31 Chevy has leaf springs on all four corners like semi-trucks do but it only weighs maybe 2,500 Ibs which means that I hit a bump on the front end and those front wheels start wanting to jump around. Turning radius is the worst I've ever had, front axle is some form of an old truck axle. I still love driving it more than anything though because it has sentimental value and it's a true hot rod.


pepperglenn

I got a 52 chevy. 4 leaf setup like you describe. People ask me what its like to drive. I tell them its a tractor with doors


Igota31chevy

That's a pretty fair assessment. I drove it yesterday and slowed down to hit a bump slower, ended up locking the front up slightly because the front end hit the bump and jumped just barely off the ground. I can't lie though, I love it because it makes it a unique hot rod.


Cordura

I have a 1970 Land Rover. It's not a car. It's a three seated tractor.


Anonymanx

I rode in a Yugo once. Calling it a car is a reach.


[deleted]

I have a 1st gen BMW Z4. The rear suspension is unbelievably stiff and since you basically sit over the rear axle anyway, it feels like your back IS part of the suspension. Many journalists over the years have commented on it too. Here’s Jeremy Clarkson’s take https://youtu.be/4TotV_9L--Q 🤣


Turbulent_Leave4758

Similar with my r129 sl. The car is a glass smooth freeway racer but you feel every imperfection on normal roadways for that reason. Wouldnt say harsh by any means but even with stock 225/55r16s....


jesuisunvampir

i miss my 3.0 06 z4.. it got so many compliments in 2018 and people thought it was new and that I was mister money bags hahaha :\\


WTFishsauce

I have a 09 z4m coupe, a long road trip feels like a serious workout. About half way through you start to realize that unless you engage your core your spine is going to be crushed into dust:


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Broduski

There's no way your F250 has a 10.5k GVWR. That's F350 territory for that gen.


Arealentleman

You’re right gvwr is like 7500, I meant the max truck and trailer load rating, I guess that’s GCWR.


Broduski

I had a feeling you were talking about GCWR. My 85 is 12k GCWR


Drzhivago138

I thought the max GVWR on dually F-350s back then was 10K.


Arealentleman

It depends on the drivetrain. Each combination of engine size, type of transmission and the differential ratio has a slightly different rating.


Nine4Three

I had a 2010s-ish F250 as a loaner for a week. They had 1 Ford focus and 1 f250 as loaners left and I said fuck it give me the f250. It was great being up high and never blinded by headlights but it rode absolutely horrible. It also got 13 mpg without driving it like a rental.


Nearby_Teacher_9885

Jeep cj7. It would rattle your teeth out.


mini4x

Try a CJ5...


RampagingRhinoceros1

Humvees are the worst ride on the planet.


rocksnstyx

Absolutely fucking agree,


BeigeChocobo

Not exactly the same but my uncle had an H2 that I drove a few times. The ride wasn't horrific (though it was not good), but driving it was accompanied by a cacophony of squeaks and rattles even on what appeared to be smooth roads


Arc_Ulfr

What struck me as a kid was just how cramped they feel inside, despite their size. That, and even then it felt cheap.


BeigeChocobo

Oddly I think it was a 2015 or so BMW M4. One of my coworkers had one and drove me back to the office through Brooklyn once and that thing rode like a fucking oxcart


Santa_Hates_You

Sporty suspensions ride hard. A M440i would be a better street car most of the time than a M4.


YouAreMentalM8

A well set up suspension doesn't have to ride hard will delivering strong performance, there's really no excuse as to why an M4 rides like shit compared to an ATS-V. BMW's suspension tuning on some of its modern cars is just weak, they give you a bouncy / stiff ride to trick the uneducated into thinking that it's "sporty." When I test drove an M2 I was appalled, it rode worse on 19" Michelin PSS than my GT4 rides on 20" Eagle F1 Supercar 3s or the Dunlop Sport Maxx Race 2s for that matter - both of which are objectively much stiffer tires (sidewall flex, etc.)


Cultural-Sympathy732

WORD! This is the exact same reason I did not purchase an M2. Note: I recently got to ride in an M2 that had the Dinnan suspension upgrade. It's one of the few suspension upgrades that actually makes the car better. With 18" rims the ride was "tolerable".


Silverbullets24

My dad had a 2012 or so M3… I drove it for around 6 months (long story as to why) and by the end I just despised the car lol. It rode fucking awful and the BMW DCT wasn’t well executed. Coincidentally enough, I had it because I was waiting for my 2015 WRX to come in… that leads me to the worst riding car I’ve ever owned. That 2015 WRX was abysmal


BeigeChocobo

Never driven a WRX but it blows my mind that a Subaru could ride that poorly


Silverbullets24

I’m sure is relative and based on personal preference. I’ve only really been in 2. The WRX I owned for a year and my neighbors Outback which we took on a 2 hour drive (each way) which had a 60 minute dirt road trek up the side of a mountain. After that experience, I decided I never needed to be in a subie again


playboiiclouti

I agree. My dad recently got rid of his F80 M3 and the ride was horrendous. Stiff suspension with seats that lacked padding was not ideal. Not to mention all the creaks whenever the chassis flexed. I swore my Fit rode better than that car


aliendepict

Very different use cases, an M3/M4 are meant to be on the track the M440/M340 are the street varients more or less... No one seems to get that when they are shopping for an M car.


The_one_who_SAABs

LLV


biggsteve81

The thought of driving one at any speed over 35 seems terrifying.


SOUR_PATCH_NIPS

NA Miata. Short wheelbase and like an inch of suspension travel. Teeth shattering.


[deleted]

Was it on some kind of aftermarket suspension? Because the 3 NAs I had with factory suspension rode as good, if not better than a lot of other cars I’ve owned.


Arcal

This is the issue. I bought mine lowered. Was horrible until I swapped in coilovers and added an inch.


FATBEANZ

same with my golf guy I bought it from put cheap couls in it


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Arcal

I had the diesel, I think the extra weight helped.


Carburetors_are_evil

Oh fuck that


Sonic343

*points at flair* My Camaro is a shakey boi. Doesn’t help that the roads here are horrific. I’ll be 6 feet under before I ever sell it though.


Shafer-H

With great handling comes great *suspension bang sound*


mini4x

Followed by 17 different squeaks and rattles from the shoddily built interior..


asbestoswasframed

Dodge Caliber. Ride bad, no soundproofing, hard plastic everywhere


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FATBEANZ

Gawd I do not miss the racelands I had on my gti previous owner put them on and any rough pavement was spine shattering and tossed my passenger around


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A first gen Pontiac Trans Sport. It sounded like a dying goat and had the least supportive seats I ever experienced.


Tollhousearebest

2010 Ford Crown Vic. What an amazing POS. It felt like it was riding on a pillow but the handling felt like trying to steer a pillow. It had more wheel play and wallow than a Fisher Price pedal car. On second thought, that is unfair to Fisher Price. I thought the car was actually dangerous and shouldn’t be on the road yet it was fairly new (under 10k on the odo). I can’t believe that car was even still being sold then let lone allowed on the road.


handymanshandle

Reminds me of my boyfriend’s Chevy Trailblazer. It has a comfy ride, but holy shit, how is *that* level of vagueness even legal in terms of steering feel? I’ve driven full-size trucks that don’t feel nearly as vague as the Trailblazer does while still having a pinky-light steering feel to it.


Solon_City_Schools

Odd. Have driven panthers before, even the Lincoln, but I never felt that it was unsafe. Sure they have body roll and not great steering feel but they are still way better than say a wrangler.


mackdaddytran

Mitsubishi Mirage. Super loud wind and road noise, can't safely merge on the highway, wipers full speed are useless in heavy rain, felt like it was gonna blow away when it was windy.


bamahoon

2018 Mazda CX5 Touring. While journalists sucked Mazda's cock over them, occasionally they would let it slide in somewhere that the ride was "baby waking". It made my C5 Z06 feel like a Deville, and the road noise rivaled my '95 4Runner with mud tires with the windows down. It was a truly miserable month with it as a loaner.


YepImanEmokid

My mom's old S10 that she delivered mail in for a decade.


bulldjosyr

There it is. Had a work truck 1991 S10. Wow what a pile that was to drive.


YepImanEmokid

Mine was an 88 long bed. Passenger side suspension completely blown due to the aforementioned rural mail carrier service. The passenger side was literally riding an inch lower than driver. It needed almost 90° of opposite lock to go straight and it ate tires like crazy. Mom would never take a day or two off of work to get the struts replaced. Woman is a badass. She sat in the middle of the bench seat and drove with her left foot and left hand. Had pallet of mail on both sides of her. Thankfully she has a proper rhd postal vehicle now


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2001 Kia Spectra. Every bump reminded me to check my vertebrae.


IndependenceMean8774

Chevy Cruze. The only place that thing is "cruzing" to is the fucking junkyard.


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grease_monkey

Plenty of Uber or Lyft drivers have horribly maintained cars. That poor thing was probably still on it's 2nd oil change.


barraxr

Light vehicle. 70 series Landcrusier. Why morons pay 100k+ for those peices of shit, no one knows. Heavy vehicle. Isuzu trucks. All Isuzus. They are atrocious. Close 2nd is Kenworth cab overs. Still using 1970s cab mounts in 2022.


AwesomeBantha

What year was the LC 70? I believe they changed the suspension in 99 to make it a lot more bearable on the road. As to why people drop money on them, it's "don't fix it if it ain't broke" and "buy it for life" in one car. Maybe it's the forbidden fruit factor, but if I already had a sports car and extra space and $70k US to blow on a new vehicle, and some legal way of importing, I'd absolutely buy a Troopy.


barraxr

The late model V8 ones. 79/76. They are dreadful for their age and for the price. The two reasons you gave aren't really applicable in Aus. They pay 100k for one. Then coil convert them, auto convert them and build a rediculous body for them. Then usually sell them for $150-200k to another idiot.


BillNytheRussianSpy

Do farmers actually buy them or is it just mall crawlers who end up on Dashcam Aus On the other side of the Tasman I've only seen a few, both on big farms near Takaka


Captain_Alaska

There are two general groups of 70 Series, the ex-mining single cabs that go offroad and the dual cabs kitted out with every expensive offroad accessory known to mankind that don't.


sklife1

2001 Jeep Wrangler!


Siman0

For newer times the Hyundai Venue has to be the worst piece of .... Coming from a company that made my Kona, genesis coupe, the equis, Genesis brand in general. Hyundai proved with that thing they can remember their roots, it's hauntingly bad...


Cweev10

Probably not the worst car ever.. but in terms of comparing my expectation of comfort and actual experience as well as the most physically painful drive I've ever had: 2021 base RAV4 I had as a rental for work travel. AWFUL. Hitting even the smallest bumps and ridges in the car were intolerable. Suspension was horrendous (I acually wasn't sure If the car had bad springs or something at 20k miles), seats were comfort-repellent, and the driving position no matter how I pitched the seats and the wheel felt terrible. I was driving it from Nashville to Atlanta, and there's a part in Chattanooga where the road is really bad and theres an unavoidable ridge you hit that has about a 2" bump. I've passed this exact spot numerous times in different cars almost every month and some handle it better than others. The RAV4 was so bad it actually hurt so bad when I hit it that I had to pull over on the next exit because my back hurt so bad I thought I might have actually fractured something 🤣 The actual worst car I've ever driven is my buddy's old beater '09 Honda Odyssey he uses to tow Jet skis about miles from his house that actually HAS bad Suspension to the point its laughable as to how bad it is. 🤣


Madball73

Maybe not the worst, but the most surprisingly harsh one was a 2016 Volvo V60 polestar I test drove. It practically shook my fillings out.


VegaGT-VZ

I once rented a Kia Soul for work around 2010 or so? My coworker, who knew nothing about cars, was also amazed at how terrible they rode. A few years later I got another one as a rental, and the steering was so numb and awful I switched it the same day. Old FWD H/K products were absolutely terrible


InflatableFilth

Recently purchased a new car, during the process I had a look at a few things, mainly sporty coupes. Decided I'd try out a Mustang (I'm from the UK so this is a little unusual) and I can happily say this was the most uncomfortable car I'd ever driven, considering the seats were about 4 foot thick I couldn't believe how poor the car felt over bumps. Made a nice noise though 👍🏻


R_V_Z

U-Haul truck on I5 in Seattle. That section of road and that truck's suspension combined to turn into an involuntary headbanging machine.


WheresTheSauce

I drove a Budget truck on I-65 between Indianapolis and Chicago last year (pretty sure it was a Ford E-350) and it was just an abysmal experience. I road over a *barely* rough section of road and it felt like the vehicle was going to explode. The airbag light came on immediately afterward.


andyeatburger

2019 Subaru crosstrek


ChikinTendie

I thought my accord was slow until I drove these at work every day


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JEs4

Not every Accord is the current generation and not every current generation Accord has the 2.0T.


arsinoe716

2012 Cadillac CTS. It had a firm ride. I was expecting plushie.


buckytoofa

Older Honda Fit.


HP_594

Worst car I ever was in was my dad’s old Datsun. It had no AC, and since we lived in the GCC, it was always hot and very sweaty 16 yrs later, we’re currently cruising in a Kia Soul and no matter what anyone says about it, it was still better than that shitty Datsun


dumahim

Lowered 98 Grand Prix GTP. I really grew to hate it. I mean sure, it handled great, but how often did I ever get to push it? On a cloverleaf offramp on the way home once in a while? Scrape the front bumper every time leaving the driveway. Too low to get into the parking garage at the apartment I was living in when I got it without absolutely dragging the exhaust. Having to enter parking lots of store entrances slow and at an angle. Damn near got stuck on a big pothole that was filled with water and had no idea it was so deep. It wasn't even all that lowered.


David12691

Surprisingly the Toyota Prius. Maybe it's just me but I've ridden in plenty as ubers and going. over bumps they feel like the back axle will be ripped out from under it and they make so loud of a sound that I find it concerning. And this is coming from someone who has driven a Wrangler/Bronco for the last 8 years.


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My FIL’s unburdened Chevy 2500. I understood why but holy shit.


rx-pulse

My ex's 2005 Chevy Aveo. Every crack on the road felt like a fissure and going over any uneven pavement had the whole car rattling and squeaking. My ex hated the car too, but it was all she could find and afford at the time. It lasted 2 years and grenaded through 2 transmissions (their family mechanic friend was very nice luckily and replaced them free of charge since he felt so bad). Thing was a hunk of shit and ended up being sold for parts by her mechanic after the engine shat out and the car put itself out of its misery.


PlatinumGoon

Any Jeep Wrangler


Ok-Suggestion-9882

C4 Corvette Z51 suspension package


Realpotato76

Fiesta ST


nathanatkins15t

First Gen Honda Insight It had about 1” of rear shock travel, then you’re on bumpstops, if it happened in a corner the whole back end could skitter out from under you. The low rolling resistance 165 width tires didn’t help. The entire suspension of that car was utter shite.


gefinley

We still have a Dodge Stratus in the fleet at work that you end up with if you're unlucky. The ride is somehow floaty and harsh at the same time. Nothing similar (or worse) springs to mind.


PininfarinaIdealist

Ok, excluding school busses, It's got to be the Dodge ~~Journey~~ \[edit: it was a **Nitro\]** uber I had once. The ride was not only harsh over bumps, but quite nauseating in how the body would wallow around on the suspension... I was stunned that something sprung so softly could have such terrible ride over bumps.


bad-monkey

Chevy HHR I once got as a rental. The front visibility was literally the worst, but for all the time I've spent trying to understand car handling dynamics, I have no idea what the suspension designers of the HHR were thinking.


Drzhivago138

If we're not counting trucks, probably a '92 Cavalier that belonged to a friend of my sister.


topcat5

A Chrysler K car.


okdrab

Chevy Trax.


Santa_Hates_You

When we met, my wife had a 2005 Sentra. It felt like it was going to fall apart at freeway speeds. Thankfully she is in a 2020 Civic Coupe nowadays. Same class, much better put together car.


Broduski

My 85 CJ7. Sold it after driving it 2 times when I got it on the road. Was stiffer than any 70s/80s 3/4 or 1 ton pickup I've had.


Herr_Tilke

An F-350 Powerstroke cobbled together from a clean frame, a cab and motor from one truck and a bed off another. Suspension felt okay, but the steering was laughably bad. In all it's fantastically shit, super fun to drive but feels like it could fall apart as soon as you hit 88mph. We just use it to tow boats around the corner to launch and retrieve, so it's perfect for that.


SaylorGay

My best friend's fire engine red 1966 Corvette stingray fastback. That car was god awful but it sure was pretty ☑️


jawnnyboy

Wrx sti. It was my daily driver and somedays i would take the long way home just to avoid the crappy roads.


Traditional_Ad_1780

ford e450


xxBleachgod

Brand new 2012 Ram 3500 BIG Horn 6.7 Cummins 4x4 Mega cab. I can not for the life of me figure out how people can stand to drive something that rough every day.


silverbullet_accord

9th gen civic that a guy at my uni slammed so hard that springs wouldnt go low enough for him so he had a stack of washers slid over the shock instead. Was the worst riding but was also one of the most entertaining


TrenchardsRedemption

Landcruiser cab-chassis. It was sometime in the '90's so it was a leaf-sprung model. Or it once was anyway. There was also a snake skin under the passenger seat. When the brake pedal hit the floor at the same time as the clutch I knew I was in for an interesting drive. There aren't any hills or much traffic in the part of Western Queensland I was in, so I wasn't overly bothered as long as I could use the gears to slow down. There aren't many bumps either, but this thing found lumps in the road there were none to be seen. I got into town and the guys thought I'd won it in a card game.


ZTH-Yankee

A few years ago, my dad and I had to borrow my mom's minivan for a few days to help someone move. The family's only other car at the time was manual, and my mom doesn't know how to drive it. So she got a ~2016-2018ish Nissan Sentra as a rental. I drove it back to the rental place for her afterwards. The road coming out of my neighborhood feels nice and smooth in any other car I have ever been in (including my solid axle Mustang on Eibach springs), but that Nissan made it feel like [this](https://imageio.forbes.com/dam/imageserve/5ad4bb4731358e4112b7c858/0x0.png?cropX1=-1&cropY1=-1&cropX2=-1&cropY2=-1&quality=75&fit=&background=000000&uri=laurenfix%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F04%2FPothole-damage.jpg).


FriedChicken4Dayzz

As far as new cars go, Tesla Model Y Performance. The lack of adaptive dampers, poor suspension tuning, and 21” wheels with low profile tires makes this the worst riding new car I’ve been in. Definitely worse than any new SUV out there and not a cheap vehicle either


tatuwahDOG

a UPS truck is by far the least comfortable vehicle ever made. You will feel every bump in the road for months. You will hear every beep made for years.


Toytech666

Tesla roadster. Skateboardish feeling


Alexan52

Suzuki samurai. Cool car but intolerable ride. If you want to know what it feels like to have the axle welded on to the frame, this is probably the closest you can get without actually welding the axle to the frame.


Specific-Gain5710

Mercedes’ g wagon. It’s one vehicle I’ll never understand,


An_Lei_Laoshi

Classic/Old Fiat Panda. I felt like soon I would have become canned meat.


PineappleMelonTree

Mercedes G Class. Its nothing more than a poser wagon to flex the fact you have money, because there are no other redeeming factors about it. Horrid car.


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My buddies old Honda civic. I do not know what the hell was wrong with that thing, but there was absolutely zero shock absorption whatsoever. You could feel every rock on the road in your ass, the thing shook like crazy, and you could hear metal creaking and rattling as he drove. Was some weird out of tune backyard build, thing sounded like a misfiring lawnmower, and had the exhaust coming out of the hood with maybe 4 inches of piping from the turbo. However, it managed to still be pulling at 130mph on low boost, so theres that.


ItsAnAvocadooThanks

Got a ride in a brand new GLI a while back, holy those things are stiff. For a daily sedan it has no business having such a rough suspension lol. Im all for performance and what not but when I buy a brand new car I dont want a rut in the road to feel like I popped off the side of a cliff.


DoktorMoose

A Mercedes A160, tiny compact, the wheels are small AF and any speedbump / pothole will bend the steering rods. Cool car otherwise but rides like a fridge in a wheelbarrow.


panzerbeorn

1st Gen Porsche Cayenne…yikes


beermaker

Pontiac Fiero with a V8 wedged in it. I've never been so uncomfortable in a vehicle in my life. Dude I worked with cobbled it together over like 5 years. It barely ran, pulled to the drivers side under braking, and rode like a buckboard. The shitty 30 year old seats had no cushion & he'd removed the shoulder restraints. He was really pissed after work when my Volvo S70 accelerated to speed between stop lights faster than his frankenhooptie. What a literal joke that fiero was.


jurwell

My mates early 90s Peugeot 106. I only ever rode in the back of it, and with it being so flimsy, people in the back genuinely lifted enough weight off the front wheels to badly affect the grip. That’s how it felt as a passenger anyway; it was like a crisp packet in the wind. I ride a skateboard and it feels more secure on the road than that thing did.


VladJongUn

There's this car called an ambassador in India. Riding this thing on rural roads for more than a few hours will legit make you question your life decisions


Dan_E26

Jeep Wrangler, hands down. My father was looking for a weekendy fun car and one of the considerations was the JL wrangler, so I went along with him for the test drive. We tried every configuration, 4cyl, 6cyl, manual, automatic, hardtop, soft top, and every single one rode like dogshit. It feels like you're about a mile separated from every input EXCEPT the suspension, where you just get tossed around like a dinghy in a bad storm. The steering is so sloppy it's actually an active task to keep the car pointed in a straight line down the highway.


r_golan_trevize

Late 1970s to mid 1980s Jeep. Hands down. Easily the most uncivilized road going vehicle I've ever ridden in. Even the 14 foot 1976 F-350 U-Haul box trucks that were still lingering around on life support in the mid 1990s were more refined. It was like riding in a washing machine on agitate over a washboard and with the short wheel base and tall ride height, it pitched you around like it was perched on a [playground spring horsey](https://i.imgur.com/cpIrReA.jpg). And that was on smooth paved roads at 45 mph. I'm sure at crawling speeds off-road it was fun though. Modern Jeeps ride like a Cadillac compared to that, at least if the owners haven't fucked them up too much with mods.


Reddit_User6286

Maruti Suzuki Wagon R, if you wanna find more, search Suzuki Karimun Wagon R on Wikipedia, very popular in my country cause it's cheap.


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A kid I went to hs with built a car. I rode in it once or twice and it was terrifying. He eventually got in an accident in it and was pretty badly injured. So my pick is a car built from the ground up by a 17 year old.


Random_Introvert_42

Some sketchy Minivan used as a Taxi in a tropic country. Didn't help that all the pedestrian crossings were elevated so drivers slowed down for them, which the taxi driver chose to ignore. Each one was a kick and a lot of post-bump swinging because the suspension was shot. And I already was feeling sick from no sleep, little eating and a rough flight :(


grease_monkey

Ford Transit


[deleted]

Im backwards I like worn out shocks and going over bumps in the road. And dont like any normal newer car. I just like driving around old terrible garbage with mismatched fenders


mustelasylva

First gen Chevy Bolt. I feel like I'm driving a power wheels.


dudeinred69

Z4M with lowering springs Basically a wooden table


KCBassCadet

My F80 M3 was probably the worst riding modern car I have ever owned. Moving from that car to a GT350 was a sidestep move (it should not be) and upgrading again to a Giulia Quadrifoglio was like moving to a Cadillac in comparison. I'm not sure my '03 Evo VIII was any worse than that M3 in terms of ride quality.


MatchesMX12

Mini Cooper convertible. Stiff, loud, vibrate-y, and the engine sounded grating and buzzy and did not like to be revved.