I find all cars interesting and likeable, but if you mean brands, then...Mercedes Benz.

Reasons for dislike......

1. Dishonesty. Reputation of (Karl) Benz making the first car built on a lie (google Siegfried Marcus or visit Vienna Technical Museum).

2. The smart propaganda of creating and elevating the 'best car in the world' image to almost regal status, so much so that I have occasionally heard people reverently refer to their car as 'the Mercedes', rather than 'the car'.

3. The way in which they have managed to extract the most enormous amount of money out of the worldwide punter with claims of ultra reliability or low depreciation. All I have known who owned one either lost a fortune in depreciation and/or it cost the proverbial two limbs if and when it needed maintenance and repair - basic W124 excepted.

4. Causing the now sadly rare choice of a lovely name to complement a lovely girl.

The only car I've had and hated was a Saab 9-5 Aero estate.

I think I must be the wrong shape, as I could never get the seat comfortable and it gave me dreadful backache.

It was a company car. I resigned about 2 weeks after getting the Saab (not because of the car!), and made sure the next company car was something different - a BMW 330d. That was much more comfortable!

I've had lots of cars, (usually bought used and often did my own repairs/servicing on them) , plus a wide range of company pool cars/hire cars, in the UK and abroad. I can't honestly say I have a dislike for any manufacturer as such.

I have,however, developed an aversion to Audis, a majority of Audi drivers seem to be aggressive, selfish and prone to unsafe manoeuvres, so I give them a wide berth. BMW drivers seem somewhat better now, at least in my neck of the woods. (Apologies to members who have Audis, I'm sure the above generalisation does not include you!)

I have,however, developed an aversion to Audis, a majority of Audi drivers seem to be aggressive, selfish and prone to unsafe manoeuvres, so I give them a wide berth. BMW drivers seem somewhat better now, at least in my neck of the woods. (Apologies to members who have Audis, I'm sure the above generalisation does not include you!)

Totally agree about Audis, they are usually black. Audi used to be one of my favourite makes in the eighties, when they had a subtle but classy image, and they had some genuinely great engineering features like galvanising and the quattro system, but they are now arrogant and thrusting with look at me DRL's, and attract the people described above.

Range Rover Sport. I can't see the point. It can't go off road properly, there is no ground clearance and the wheels and tyres are silly. It weighs a colossal amount due to a monocoque and a chassis, so it needs a lot of power to shift it. It's called a Sport but something that heavy will not handle with any finesse. It attracts the same type of people above who always seem to have the right pedal welded to the floor and the car welded to someone elses tailgate permanently.

Entirely agree with the above comments, however my dislike of audi's goes a bit deeper than that particular type of driver who (in my experience) is usually behind the wheel (not to mention, about 5' from my back bumper!). Audi's slogan, vorsprung durch technik roughly translates as 'advancement through technology'. This, to me, speaks of innovation, new design, new ideas, pushing the boundaries, etc. Yet the last time audi designed and put into production a genuinely innovative and forward thinking car was 1999. They seem quite content these days to churn out endless slightly different variations of the same styling theme.

I tend to gravitate to non-mainstream cars.

Me too, don't like the norm in most things, cars included.

There's lots of makes i wouldn't own again for various reasons, suspect any cars i own for the rest of my natural will have been made in Japan.

Nissans - the first Japanese car I had was a Nissan (in those days it was a Datsun) and it had no redeeming features.

I've had Mazda, Toyota, Honda and Subarus since, so I'm not prejudiced against Japanese cars, and found them all to be reliable and to fulfil my needs - also owned Citroen, Fiat, Peugeot, VW, Vauxhall, Renault, Volvo & Saabs & others which have faded from the memory - but its the Nissan range that does nothing for me, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but to my eye Nissan have built pretty ugly (or else anonymous) cars over the years.

Edited by Theophilus on 03/05/2017 at 18:10

I had one of these as a company car. I hated the car so much that I chucked the job in after 6 weeks. I did use it for a holiday driving up to the highlands and back. 31 MPG! It was slow, I think the gearing was far too high, presumably to try and get some sort of economy out of it.

Toyotas, just about every one is ugly, and my brother has one!

I am with Avant on this. I made the error of having one as a company car. A Vectra CD diesel. After 8 months I managed to pursuade a colleague to swop me for his Renault Laguna Tourer. He found it too large and I found the Vectra too small. There was nothing about the car to enjoy or complain about, it was a non event vehicle. I have owned or driven just about everything over the past 50 years and would revisit a lot of makes, but not Vauxhall. Shame really. Cheers Concrete