I have been driving for nearly 43 years and have covered at least one million miles as I worked in sales for many years, and if not actually on the road have always had to commute a fair distance, (by English standards) to my various offices.

I would suggest that you would have to go a long way to find a worse car than an early Morris Marina, the 1.3 had no guts and awful handling, and the 1.8 had too much power for the chassis.

You have to judge cars in the context of the time, and if you think that the Golf Mark 1 was around at the same time, I rest my case.

For unreliability, I had two Lancia Fulvia 2C Berlinas in the 1970s, and spent much time underneath the bonnets of both, but they were so much fun to drive compared with other cars I had owned. The fact that I nearly died in a highspeed off in the first one, and have a metal reinforced leg as a souvenir, didn't stop me buying the second.