Way back in the early eighties, my good wife decided that she wanted one of those Pandas with the twin roll back sun roofs. Well it was black, it was Y reg. and after only 7 months I put it through the auctions to be rid. 
What a diabolical cheap nasty contraption (sorry Panda lovers). It had quirks about starting and would decide after only a few miles to stop! and no it wouldn`t start untill seen to by the nice RAC man; who in the end refused to attend. I remember his peculiar habit of sucking air into his mouth between clenched teeth.
In the first four months of our ownership each wheel claimed a new wheel bearing and the offside driveshaft CV broke up. On one occasion when my wife was waiting at the traffic lights, the hand-brake cable snapped and no-one moved for a good thirty minuts. She was terribly embarrassed because the vehicle immediatly behind was a mini-bus carrying a Morris dancing troup; they all minced out with their bells and feathers and bounced the Panda onto the pavement.
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are you slating panda`s mr millar! or can i call you windy? will have to send lenny (the leg breaker) and wayne (the handshake) to guide you back on the path of `nice things to say about fiats'
julian greenhalgh could tell you some stories about his time at a fiat garage in blackpool,about panda`s, my unreliable fiat was a 133, stopped after a couple of miles (fuel pump failing) accelerator boke while in front of a security van! brakes seals leaked,( repiped a new ,different m/clyinder in) did a basil fawlty only more worse, tried to turn the car over before i set fire to it, but calmed down (just!)
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Reliable they may be but in the 131 Sport Fiat fitted differential units made out of chocolate! 
See http://131mirafiori.com/smf/index.php?topic=3332.msg25441#msg25441
Had a 127 that didn't like wet weather but a squirt of WD40 on the dizzy cap always got it going. There was a 126 that had more faults than an amateur tennis match but always worked (if not all of it!).
The 125 has let me down a couple of times both of which were down to a dodgy set of new points and a dodgy condenser (also new!).
That aside, the worst car I've owned by a country mile was a Mk2 Escort van (the engine came out five times for various reasons) and the best has to be the current Alfa 75. 19 years old and 138,000+ on the clock, it does 500 miles a week, has done two trackdays, two trips to the Nurburgring (seen here menacing a customer's GT and lifting a wheel at the Karussel) and hasn't broken down once. Cost me £800!
The big laugh is that "everyone" (knowitalls in the pub) will tell you that late 80's Alfas practically killed off the marque with their unreliability.
Harumph!
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