Ouch.
The £500 Astra I had before that was a trooper that refused to die on me. It looked like shit, and towards the end, drove like shit -with a nice unpredictable air of what direction it would veer to if you let off acceleration to change gear (which whilst effortless for me, proved difficult for other drivers as the gates were a bit fucked) or applied the brake.

I also changed the exhaust with one out of a scrappy. It had rotted away so I was usually charging about with about a foot of silencing hair hanging out of it.

It was so dirty it had a tendency to turn passengers hands black just by them entering it.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 1 Oct 2014, 15:11, Reply)