My rental

[Breau]

My car will be in the body shop for a while so this is my car for a few weeks. Pretty goofy but it's not bad.

[mustardtiger]

Would much rather have had one of those over my last rental, a Chevy HHR.

By far the worst "new" car I have ever driven. For something with less than 8k miles on it, it felt like it had 200k with a few demo-derbys thrown in there.

Bet that thing's great on gas though...

[jk88]

I approve.

-Josuar88

[Breau]

One of my friend's had the HHR for a rental as well and he said the ride was pretty bad. It's like a cobalt only bigger and I really don't like the cobalts.

[Aikmanson]

Originally Posted by Breau

One of my friend's had the HHR for a rental as well and he said the ride was pretty bad. It's like a cobalt only bigger and I really don't like the cobalts.

HHR's are awful, just awful.

[Hirsch]

My brother had an 05 Cobalt, then an 08 Cobalt SS and now has an HHR. I drove the SS for a few days in 09 and it was a blast to drive. Uncomfortable as fuck, but fast as hell. He drove me to Chicago in the 05 and it was very comfortable.

I haven't spent enough time in the HHR, but it seems comfortable enough.

That said, the only one of the three I'd own is the Cobalt SS. But not as a daily driver.

[900AERO]

we had jeep liberty or wrangler for rental and it sucked... My wife couldn't wait to return it. yuk

[tuner4life]

My wife's Volvo C70 got rear ended last winter and she had a 09 Dodge Avenger as a rental. It was really funny listening to her complain about it. She always thought I was nuts, but now she finally understands the quality differences between imports and American cars.

[Breau]

Yea the avenger is another car they ruined, it use to be a 2 door coupe and now its a mid sized piece of crap 4 door car. My uncle had a new impala for a rental and those are also terrible now; I can't understand why anyone would want to buy one. Two pretty good cars there that got a lot worse.

[Breau]

This is an actual picture of the car and this is what happened when a gmc denali hit my saab.

[KPAero]

Wasn't a rental, but I logged 800 something miles in a new ford fiesta on monday and it was an awesome little car. Seats were not quite as nice as most saab seats, but I only started to get sore in the last 100 miles. Stable on the highway, quick enough when you want it to be (it was a 5 speed, and to make it go it really needed to be above 3500 rpm, but above that it moved itself right along) brakes felt nice, radio was good, minimal road/wind noise yet the engine actually makes a nice noise for a 1.6 etc. I was impressed though, well done ford. For comparison, I've spent some time in a Fit thats a couple years old, and this was a nicer drive.

[bruceinmiami]

To actually go through the trouble of returning a rental car immediately after renting it due to unacceptable suckiness takes real distaste.

Only two cars that were simply intolerable and thus, fit this description, were a Pontiac Sunfire and a Jeep Liberty. Undriveable turds. Can't understand how anybody lives with those two. Both have torturous ergonomics and NVH.

I almost returned a Pontiac G6 once, too. You remember those? Nobody does. Car actually looks pretty hot. But the ingress/egress is severely pinched. The interior plastics are so hard and rough-textured, you can write on them with a pencil!

HHR's are good cars, if you can live with the low roof height.

[IAmTodd]

Originally Posted by bruceinmiami

I almost returned a Pontiac G6 once, too. You remember those? Nobody does. Car actually looks pretty hot. But the ingress/egress is severely pinched. The interior plastics are so hard and rough-textured, you can write on them with a pencil!

I had one while the 9-3 was being repaired. I smoked the brakes in it so many times. By the time I returned it the rotors were so badly warped it was painful to use the brakes.

I'm normally not hard on a car but taking it through the hills at a resonable speed seemed to go beyond the ability of the car. The 4cyl returned poor economy as well for what it was.

[Saabeh]

In for the burnout and transmission abuse videos.

[Turbo00]

I had a kia forte sedan in fall of '10 when my wife and I were down in Orlando, overall I was impressed, aside from the like 26-28mpg I got, even on the highway. Had 15 miles on it when we picked it up.

The break-in guidelines, they were not followed.

[Ninety5Aero]

This is a sad thread. Years and years of so called R&D, millions in advertising, and billions in bailout, and GM still can't build decent cars that stay in one piece. God damn!

[Breau]

I don't think the soul has enough torque to spin the tires, it has something like 100 ft lb. Pretty sure I have the 1.6 liter engine, but there's also a 2.0 that has 150hp and the 1.6 has 120.