Carmageddon: who goes next? You decide!

Posted by Cameron Countach

First Honda pulls out of sponsoring its Formula 1 team, then next year's British International Motor Show is called off – and only a week ago, plans to bring out the Lamborghini Estoque were revealed to have been shelved.

 
The situation for the motoring industry is so bad right now that all manner of disturbing terminology is out there, including terms such as “carpocalypse” and “carmageddon” being used to describe the crisis.
Hopefully we won't witness the end of any marques – though the clock is swiftly ticking for the likes of GM and Chrysler – but with a bit of luck we will see the end of some of the more hideous atrocities to have come off the production line in recent years.

This got us to thinking about the cars we’d like to see claimed by the carpocalypse. For me it would have to be the following:

1. Volkswagen Passat (dull)
2. Myers Motors EV (why would you drive this car?)
3. Nissan Micra (eyesore)

For a bit of fun, what we want you to do is, in order of preference, list the Top 3 cars you'd happily see disappear during the recession. In a week's time, we'll put up a gallery featuring the Top 10 most hated cars, as voted by you.

In case you’re lacking in inspiration, here are some cars we'd like to see get the chop during the course of the next two years of financial misery >>

Comments

[mmh]

1) Whole group Wauxhall
2) Mini
3) Volvo

[Lexx]

1. BMW X3/5

2. Mazda MX5. I can see no reason to own this car!

3. Porsche Cayenne

Incidentally, I love the Myers Motors EV! It looks like a cross between a Chevvy Corvette and a Breville Toastie maker lol

[Lauren]

1. Ford Escort- especially pimped up ones that 17 year old boys race around in.
2. Same for the Peugeot 106!
3. Smart cars. Talk about poncy.

[Tom]

Oh and why do we refer to them as gas guzzlers, have we suddenly become american?!

[Tom]

Anyone who thinks that expensive cars or sports cars should be banned is talking absolute rubbish, i sense jealousy, don't think they would be of the same opinion if they had alot of money, would they still buy a Nissan Micra?

1. Ssang Yong Rodius
2. Citroen Saxo
3. Vauxhall corsa

Also, what is it that everyone has against 4x4s, funny though how everybody seems to hate them and yet there are still so many, they are no more damaging than any other diesel and happen to be very safe.

[.................]

1.Anyone driving a bmw!
2.Fiat cinquentco or how ever you spell it.
3.Any boy under the age of 25 driving a corsa

[Dinger]

1. BMW X3/5 (Chelsea tractor)
2. Ssangyong Rodius (ugly!)
3. Toyota Prius (diesels win)

[viennamachine]

errata
i made a mistake with one of the manufacturers in my earlier post it should have read like this

#1 ford ka
#2 kia soul
#3 alfa romeo mimo or whatever it's called
the one with the technology technology technology.

tech-it some place else more like.

[Lorne Sainsbury]

Peugeot's...all absolutely disgusting now especially the 206. Do they know how to make a gearbox?
Nissan Micra
VW Beetle

[Andy390]

1/ All Honda's(and thereby also getting rid of 90% of the UK's doddery old fools )
2/Cars containing Women that look Left,Right,left right,left right a million times before finally pulling out of a tee junction
3/Cars sitting in the mddle lane of motorways for miles with no one around!

[Scott]

I did wonder how long it would take for people to jump on the bashing clarkson bandwagon

One simple statement....

"Top Gear 8.5 million plus viewers"

Its one of the most watched shows on TV

I rest my case....

[mantastra]

les lee, your talking absolute nonsense! Jeremy Clarkson does like expensive cars, yes, so do a lot of people, but he also likes a lot of cars a long way under £50k! Mondeo, Belingo, Swift, forester, focus to name but a few. by the tone of your comments you obviously don't actually watch Top Gear or else you'd realise want a fool you are!

[Andy]

1. All cars displaying "Baby on Board"
2. All 4x4s between 8am to 9.30 am, and 3pm to 4.30pm
3. Cars driven by men wearing hats.

[les lee]

unless a car costs more than 50 grand clarkson thinks that they are beneath contempt ,
whereas all most of us motorists want is a vehicle that is as cheap and reliable as possible with excellent fuel consumption

[les lee]

the cars that jeremy clarkson is always testing should be banned from the roads along with all chelsea tractors that are unsustainable on british roads

[dave]

1. All French cars. They only break down.
2. All German cars
3 All fords under 15 years old

[g spencer]

ALL CITROEN , PEUGEOT & RENAULT CARS , VANS.

[max]

adding to my previous one on school run mum 4x4s;
any 4x4 that doesnt have a towbar

[max]

1. all ssangyongs
2. all school run mum 4x4 (xc90, q7, lexus hybrid thing etc)
3. all french cars
4. smart cars

[Andy O'D]

Anything with a towbar
Boy racer Corsa
Men in Mid life crisis in Evos

[T TT]

1)Whole the group Vauxhall and Driver.
2)Volvo
3)Mini

[K]

1.All Nissan Micras & there drivers cos they cause traffic jams.
2. Any bike without a engine cos thay don't pay tax & brake all motoring laws.

[Robert Small]

Take all diesel cars,lorries,vans etc off the road as they give off a very harmful PM 10 Gas that are bodies cannot brake down this is far more harmful than petrol to are health.

[tsk]

1. white transit vans
2. gas guzzlers
3. lorries

[leggy]

1. Ford Fiesta
2. Nissan Micra
3. Vauxhall Corsa

[redneck]

Any thing that is not
1) V8
2) Petrol driven
3) 4X4

[G-Man]

1. Expensive luxo barges.
2. 4x4's (except for farmers).
3. Flash supercars.
4. Motorway middle lane hoggers.

[Iain]

1.Ssanyong Rodeus - who decided to stick a dormer window on the back?! As sexy as a 1950's bungalow.
2. All coupe convertibles. (esp Peugeots) How can anyone think they're cool driving something so pig-ugly?? (you do have to put that roof up sometime!!)
3. Mercedes A class, B class, R class. You thought Chris Bangle at BMW had problems???

[Mark Groom]

Every French car ever made.
taxi drivers and their vehicles
lorries
White vans
Fiat Multipla

[geoff slater]

1, all French cars especially Peugeot's.
2, all 4x4's and the plebs whole drive them.
3,all French cars again, they are rubbish

[s4ndy]

1.BMWs and drivers
2.all citreons
3.The Whole FIAT Range

[Kev]

Easy...just ban ALL cars, leave the roads clear for bikes, conjestion????...thing of the past

[John Gregory]

1.Wagons that are more than half the width of most roads in this country.
2.All 4X4s
3.All French crap

[steven humphries]

1. fiat multipla
2. sirion
3. smart car

[The Man]

leave caravans alone

[john]

1) original Ford Ka (cos it looks like a dog doing its business)
2) fiat multipla (cos its hideous)
3)all citroens

[Sue]

1.any 4x4 - they belong in the fields not in towns
2.ferrari - waste of space
3.smart car - over priced

[laura]

1. 4x4's
2.land rover
3.range rover

[Rich]

Anytthing under 15 years old!!!!!!!!!! and anything French

[Daniel Jenkins]

Anything that has an R,P or C as its first letter!!!!

1, Sangyong Musso
2, Mini Clubman
3, Porsche Cayenne.
Yuckkkk!!!

[gaz]

1. smart cars
2. citroen's
3. Peugeot's

[Col]

I'd get rid of :
1. All Fords
2. Renault Megane (for its looks)
3. Volvo Convertables

[Harry the Cat]

1. Fiat Multipla - ugliest car ever
2. White Vans - driven by fat men on mobile phones
3. Caravans - driven by anyone

[Van]

BMWs soooo common driven by tarts.
All the French Crap. Close the tunnel.
Toyota Pajeros with bull bars (should be illegal) try to do 80 mph everywhere but can only manage it downhill leaving a picturesque trail of smoke.

[si from cambs]

Kia Soul, The ultimate ugly box. Actually any Kia really.
Peugeot 1007, What a waiste of time and money - Why?
Chevrolet scrap em' all.

[MO]

1.All lorries from lanes 2 & 3 on motorways.
2. No lorries at all on minor roads.
3. All "slow" divers and cars off motorways especially middle lane huggers.

[wayne clarke]

get rid of the bmw mini. its not a mini its a hideous monster. another car to get rid of is the toyota prius whoever designed it wants shooting. finally the volkswagon beetle total and complete design failure.

[TheArseBandit]

1. CARAVANS
2. Fiat multipla
3. Cooper Clubman
4. as a bonus, EVERYTHING made in france

[Andy]

1 Vauxhall Astra 1.4, soooo gutless.
2 Smug (Smart) Cars, for obvious reasons
3 Fiat 500s, just wrong.

[Slik7]

1. All 4x4s, on the road(not to be discriminating)
2. Caravans on A & B roads.
3 Lorries in the 2nd & 3rd lanes. (ah! ah!)

[Ken]

INTERCEPTORs as they are called by the lunatic Essex Police boy racers

[Mike]

1.Everthing driven by chavs.
2.Everything driven by MP's.
3.White vans
4.Transit pickups with a towbar.
5.Caravans.

[james bevan]

to be hohnest with the recession id like to see all french crap off the roads

[steve]

1) Range Rover
2) BMW X5
3) Porshe Cayenne and all other stupid chelsea tractors !!

[I hate Manu]

Yeah B.M.W - they all seemed to be driven by morons.
White vans because they are a pain in the a$$ and all caravans and motor homes because they are a nightmare, driven by gray haired old men who have taken early retirement and have nothing better to do.

[tj]

1.renault megan (hideous cars)
2.nissan micra (why would you want one)
3.porsche 911 (ew)

[viennamachine]

#1 the ford ka cos it's just simply ka ck

#2 the kia soul cos it's so don't even go there.

#3 the fiat mimo or whatever it's called cos it's simply unattactive.

[James]

1: Nissan Note
2: Renault Espace
2: Land Rover

[Nick]

1) All BMW because they are driven by Ego Maniacs

2) All Mercedes because they are driven by jerks (Jerk in a Merc)

3) All Audi cars because they are another pretentious German car

[Bernie Grubbins]

1) Mini cooper clubman
2) Renault Kangoo
3) Ford KA

[dino]

1. VW Beetle (for trying to re-package & -merchandise the spirit of the 60s)
2. Ford KA (for not dying its death long ago)
3. Jaguar (for not going under with Rover)

[JA]

1) Citroen C3 Picasso
2) Chelsea tractors
3) Audi TT