How to make your car sturdy on the road

Ever tried to drive a car with the following characteristics:

1. wobbles on the road
2. Noises from the front
3. You take your hands off the steer wheel and the car starts drifting to one side
4. The car seems to develop vibrations after a certain speed
5. When you break hard, you don't feel the well cushioned rubbery firmness, instead you feel like some metal just rubbed on the road
6. car always has some distant vibrations which can be felt on one wheel

The obvious culprits for these symptoms are, in the order given above:

1. Completely worn out shocks
2. worn out ball joints, rubber bushings, front shocks
3. check wheel alignment, ball joints
4. check wheel balancing
5. worn out rubber bushings, ball joints, front shocks
6. Make sure to have tires with same tread pattern