The message from "Pete M" contains these words:
I was a driving instructor when they were released and I remember seeing a fair number of them in ditches all round the Watford/Hemel area. Drivers just didn't seem to have a clue how to handle them. I always put this down to them trying too hard to be like a car which made drivers drive them like cars - with predictable results. Then I drove one and decided that they were crap anyway.