i was one of those who listened from warious people stories that driving in budapest is awful.
now after I visited Budapest by car, during red bull air race weekend when was a lot of restrictions and people by foot on road, i must react and say that driving in budapest is more like in some a lot smaller town than like in big capital of one state.
in my own expirience, driving in budapest is like driving in some village in compare with zagreb.(whitch is much smaller)