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What’s the worst car you’ve ever driven? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Chevy Suburban. I volunteered to drive for a university course field trip and it's what I got stuck with.

Unresponsive fatass brick of a vehicle. I mean, come on, a minivan has more cargo space and the same passenger capacity without three light aircraft worth of inertia.
Dashboard sucked. It took me a solid three minutes to find the button shifts. (I know these can be done well - Honda does them right - but the PRNDL was fucking laid out in a thin row at the side of the dashboard. Huh?)
Overtaking damn near anything would redline the (very new, less than 10k miles) engine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

My uncle owned an 80’s suburban. That thing was an absolute tank… and not in a good way. The steering had so much play in it, you had to turn the wheel about 45 degrees for there to be any input.

A fedex truck actually ended up t-boning him, and the truck flipped. He was fine. Suburban wasn’t. Probably for the best.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Overtaking damn near anything would redline the (very new, less than 10k miles) engine.

While this suggests it might have been underpowered, how high the engine revs during acceleration in a modern automatic transmission vehicle is determined by software that operates the transmission and the driver's control inputs, not how old the engine is. The designers of the car probably decided that was the best way to deliver the performance you asked for. They may even have been correct in that assessment.