247 turns, lock to lock.
247 turns, lock to lock.
My '05 RSX Type S: the seats. The seat cushion is flat and the side bolsters are too far apart, so you slide all over the place. By the time I got home from the Mitty, my left leg and left side of my back kept cramping up from pushing on the dead petal to shove myself back in the seat.
My Si: the driver's side A-pillar. You just can't see through corners due to the airbag.
The Starion: the silly 80's motorized seatbelts.
RX-8, lack of rear visibility when parallel parking or in heavy traffic
F-100, short seat belts. More than a 34" waist and you are too big
17 MPG in a Kia.
Wifey's E46 wagon is a fantastic driver and generally almost the perfect family car but:
- AWD eats tires worse than a Jeep Cherokee
- Hidden antennas & amps. Is a good old fashioned 3' piece of steel really so ugly that they needed $500 worth of faulty electronics to replace it? I have had to fix the radio reception two times. Next time I go to Pep Boys and get an antenna and drill it right into the roof.
Chevy 2500HD:
- Why can't GM make an instrument cluster that works? Goddamn thing has been repaired twice and its out again. It is under warranty this time but... I still have to take it out and mail it to them so I'm driving with no gauges for a week. Nothing worse than towing somewhere without a fuel gauge.
- Why can't GM make seats that are comfortable. It has 300 adjustments. It has something like 7 motors. It has no single position you can be comfortable in after 5hrs of driving.
Porsche 964C2:
- Nothing. It is perfect 
SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: My '95 Cherokee has the shortest seat belts in the world. My wife hates riding in it, the seat belt is not her friend (in the chest region).
And you're complaining about that because...???? Does it distract you while driving? 
'08 Honda Fit - no center armrest. Really? I understand trying to keep the car light and save some $$, but c'mon...
'96 Volvo 850GLT wagon - cupholders pop out of center armrest. Apparently in Sweden, everyone has miniature cups, they're about 2" deep. So my morning coffee mug flops all over, if I don't hold it in place, it will spill
'06 Kia Sedona - I actually can't think of one thing I truly hate about it. It just does what's asked of it. Fuel mileage sucks, at 18mpg. But then again, it weighs 4000lbs and can smoke it's tires easily, so what else would I expect?
The Neon has power windows and the switches are pod mounted on the door right where my knee touches.
Funny thing, the window crank on the CRX hits right there too.
IS300, absolutely atrocious gas mileage for a 220hp 3 liter that only weighs 3200lbs, it needs an F20/F22 swap, more power, lighter engine, better gas mileage, win/win.
NSX, costs too damn much to make some extra power, almost 4 turns lock to lock.
Klayfish wrote: '08 Honda Fit - no center armrest. Really? I understand trying to keep the car light and save some $$, but c'mon...
No joke, that was one of the deciding factors in my wife getting a MINI instead of a Fit.
On my car it's a few of the things already mentioned....but no one thing.
The plastic headlights and having to dis-assemble the front end of a car to replace them (haven't had to do that on this car....yet, so not sure how much that job sux).
I've lost a fair amount of the undercar plastic shielding thanks to the holes it easily develops which cause it to snag.
Windshield wipers that lose paint so quickly they turn to a shiney silver that the black paint was put on to tone down. Why not come up with a metal for the wiper arms that oxidizes to a dull grey/black?
Okay, NOW, I remember THE one feature (or should I say LACK of a feature?) that I hate about my car:
The lack of a center armrest. And on cars that have them, center armrests that aren't high and long enough.
The electrical nightmare attached the the northstar in my Aurora. that and the rear calipers that freeze up (on 3rd in 4 years)
The center arm rest in my 9-5 is too short and too low to be comfortable. The rain sensing wiper on both of our vehicles, it drives me nuts not to be able to really control the wipers.
Wow, I guess I'm lucky. I love my Protege. Only nits are that the front strut mounts groan near full lock, the cup holders aren't tall enough to keep drinks from falling backward when romping on the throttle, and I wish the armrest was an inch taller and further forward.
I can't stand the cruise control on my GFs New Beetle. The 'accel' and 'cancel' functions are very awkward to access. I get sore after driving a couple of hours no matter what adjustments I give the seat and steering wheel. The interior lights might as well not even be there they put out so little light. Oh, and three always-hot 12v plugs is a recipe for dead batteries.
The steering wheel in my mom's PT Cruiser might as well be a suggestion box. The engineer who thought putting the power window controls at the top of the center stack was a good idea should give me a year of his or her wages. The factory chrome wheels are corroding at the tire bead, causing slow leaks. The leading edge of the sunroof catches air and screams like a banshee above 50mph. The removable rear seats need an engine hoist to remove, they're so heavy. And gawd, the fuel economy. I'm glad I don't have buy gas for the damn thing. The HHR I rented in CA recently was vastly, vastly superior. Fun in curves, more comfortable seating position, flat load floor with the rear seats folded, and 29mpg for the ten days we had it.
I hate that it has no cupholders, and that it has the most NON-linear powerband i've ever experienced.
I also hate that it makes too much power to actually be able to have fun with it on the daily grind.
350Z autotragic - in manual mode, if you shift out of 1st, it won't let you back in until you're down to about 10mph.
griffin729 wrote: I can't really find a comfortable driving position in my girlfriends
have you tried hitting them from behind?
i really hate the rusty sheared off bolt currently stuck in my e36's rear unibody preventing me from aligning it.
Parchment colored fabric on my Saabaru that absorbs water stains like crazy and the thoroughly mediocre shifting transmission
Lousy Mazda rusting suspension parts
Seems like every car I've recently bought, I couldn't find one with power windows/locks. That is one convenience I like to have.
My 96 Impala SS right now doesn't have A/C. Well.. it does, it just blows about 65 degree air.
The Sonoma I just bought has a door misalignment that lets a little air in around the weatherstripping... and the door hinges aren't adjustable. They're welded on the door pillar and the door shell. WTF?
Lesley wrote: My beater has no passenger mirror. My MX3 has no cupholders, and I have yet to find an aftermarket one that fits. Instead of folding the metal over nicely where the body meets the frame on my Dakota, it juts down in a stupid lip that is a magnet for rust.
Taurus. 
curtis73 wrote: The Sonoma I just bought has a door misalignment that lets a little air in around the weatherstripping... and the door hinges aren't adjustable. They're welded on the door pillar and the door shell. WTF?
check the hinges on the other side. perhaps that's just a crappy crash repair.
i can't believe that any auto manufacturer would weld doors in place. nevermind how much of a PITA that is for outside service, imagine what a bottleneck that would create in the vehicle assembly plant. slower to go through paint, slower to the overall line because the door would have to be assembled (window, moldings, mirrors, interior bits) after the body came through paint. also, how the heck would they get the seats into the vehicle in a production line environment?
I hate that the 2002 needs me to finish the garage before I can work on it.
I hate the steering feel on my girlfriend's 2000 Civic. You don't have to be hurrying at all to get the sensation that it's just scuffing the front tires instead of changing direction. Yuk. And super-slow steering rack...
If those weren't so bad I'd just spend more time complaining about the lack of power and complete absence of torque.
Automated hvac controls pretty much on any car, but it's really aggravating on the 4-runner. Just give me three controls - fan, temp potentiometer/knob with no detents, and a control for what vents are open.
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