Worst car in the world ever?
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I think I must have really pissed someone off at Hertz as I got a Kia Carens as a hired car, now ignoring all the usual gripes, the thing that serious pissed me off was that it didn't have a hand break, instead it had a pedal by the left foot to put the parking brake on and a pull release down by my knee to take the brake off, like a lot of big American cars however unlike a lot of big American cars which are automatics the Kia was a manual, making hill starts challenging and crawling up a hill in a stream of stopping and starting traffic next to impossible, how I didn't roll back into the car behind me I don't know.

Edited by Rob H on 14th Aug, 2010.

You're supposed to do 'Handbrake on, out of gear'.
How can you do that?

I seriously doubt it!

it's a hire car, you're not driving it properly.

if it doesn't go back stinking of clutch and having knackered brakes then you've driven it wrong.

On some cars like this there is an anti-roll back feature for just this type of situation. However, how you find this out on a hire car is anybody's guess.

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My other car has the same but it's 34 years old.