Your first car??

thed4king

Might be interesting to hear from everyone...

What was your first car? Did you pay for it? Any trouble getting insured?


I learned to drive in my brothers golf, then bought my own. What about everyone else??

EKRIUQ

Nissan Sunny coupe 1988

Paid by Credit Union

No trouble being insured

shabbyalonso

My first car was a peugeot 406 coupe, 1998 model. I learned to drive in my girlfiends (now wife!) fiat punto but soon bought my own. Paid for myself outright and insurance wasn't a problem....but was pricey! I was quite proud of the fact that this was my first car!!! My 2nd (current car) is a BMW 840 - i love cars!! Hee hee
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Toots

2000 Daweoo Matiz

Got a loan from bank.

No probs getting insured.

Orla K

96 Opel Corsa

I got it free:D(hand me down)

The insurance is €820.

And, I've only had it a few months.

Queen-Mise

98 Subaru Vivio - we called her Xena, a great little car. I still see her around the place sometimes.

No problem with insurance at all

cabrwab

Learnt to drive, legally/properly in my mums Seat leon.
First car i owned, was a corrolla.

Insurance wasn't so bad, paid for that outright, credit union loan for half the cost.

Took all the abuse you need for a first car!

omb0wyn5ehpij9

My first car was a '99 1.4 honda civic. It was originally my mums car and i bought it off her when she got a new car......got it at a nice family discount

chiefwiggum

mine was a 97 fiat punto in 2002 i think,paid 2500 squid and insurance 3rd party was 2750

Bluefoam

1977 Ford Fiesta, it was 20 years old when I got it - fab car. It was orangish in a very 70's way and had a brown interior & a cool stainless steel look cowl on the dials - it also had steel wheels with a polished chrome trim.

Ooh yeh!!

EPM

first car was a 99 fiesta. Was grand but not for me so changed it soon enough. My parents bought it for me when i joined the real world. Had been insured under the father for the college years before that so the insurance was cheap because i'd my full licence by then. Still see it sometimes with L plates on it and some girl driving it

Alzar

My first car was an '88 Nissan Micra, cassette radio, sunroof & go-faster stripes :)

It was a UK Import. Cost me 1,000 pounds & no bother getting insurance, pricey though at 1,500 pounds TPFT.

Last saw it about 2 years ago...

Al.

sk8board

1990 Nissan Sunny 'select' (it had something space-age called electric windows and colour-coded bumpers).

Bought new, the fella my dad sold it to 12 years later (after 5 of us all learned to drive in it), is still using it for a 20 mile daily commute. It had 180k miles when we sold it, and had only just got a new battery. Most reliable car he's ever owned.

Alzar

sk8board wrote: »

1990 Nissan Sunny 'select' (it had something space-age called electric windows and colour-coded bumpers).

Don't mean to go OT, but when I read the above it reminded me of when things like "Rear wash/wipe" & "Passenger Side Mirror" when highlighted in the TV ads as selling points. Those were the days.

Anyway, back OT...

Al.

Berty

1997 Seat Ibiza bought in 2001. 998cc Racing Red - Beautiful Car ( in its day)
£3,500 Paid through Credit union

Had to get my mother to go policy holder on my fathers policy, him go named driver under her and then him open a policy in his name with me as named driver so I could drive my car on a provisional. It still costs £1,400

I sold it a year later for £2,700 with many issues.

Tech3

2000 WW golf in 06

2000 insurance comprehensive, 1.4 model was a disaster to say the least.

sk8board

Alzar wrote: »

Don't mean to go OT, but when I read the above it reminded me of when things like "Rear wash/wipe" & "Passenger Side Mirror" when highlighted in the TV ads as selling points. Those were the days.

Anyway, back OT...

Al.

don't forget the 'auto-choke'

fluffysierra

98 VW Polo, I bought it myself.
My sister and I split the insurance.
She learned to drive in it and passed her test 1st go. I passed my test 1st go in it as well. I then sold it to my cousin and she passed her test 1st time too. I think it's a good luck car
My younger cousins have it now, can't wait to see if it brings them the same luck.

EPM

sk8board wrote: »

don't forget the 'auto-choke'

And dont forget the radio cassette lads...essential bit of kit that...ahem...

Guy:Incognito

I bought my Clio new in 2000. Had my full licence about a year and was paying IRP £2800 for insurance iirc.

Tom10

Learned to drive in an 85 micra - my mums at 13. Got a 97 punto, worst car ever, everything in it broke at least once and it tried to kill me at regular intervals. the last came when I was driving home and the brakes exploded, brake pads went everywhere - 3,000e my first insurance for a car that cost half as much, insurance companies love me, never crashed mind u

Rowley Birkin QC

shabbyalonso wrote: »

My first car was a peugeot 406 coupe, 1998 model. I learned to drive in my girlfiends (now wife!) fiat punto but soon bought my own. Paid for myself outright and insurance wasn't a problem....but was pricey! I was quite proud of the fact that this was my first car!!! My 2nd is a BMW 840 - i love cars!! Hee hee

I hate you. :mad:

FearDark

98 Renault 5 1.4
Paid 550 for it
Insurance Was 3200 for the year...

Died during an attempted overtaking maneuvre of a truck... left half the engine on the road behind me... crawled to a halt on the wrong side of the road

Cutie18Ireland

1999 Silver Nissan Micra GX

Dad bought it for my 21st

1st year insurance cost me €1100 for 3rd party, this year €450 fully comp

pandamoanium

Bought a 99' Daewoo Leganza (think it was 1.8?) as my first car around oooh, 3-4 years ago.

Paid for it in cash.

However.. I never actually drove the damn thing! I was a lazy girl and never got around to taking Driving lessons, however my mother got quite found of the heated leather seats in it, so I gave it to her.

Just started taking driving lessons earlier on this year (1 down, whoo!) and I'm going to inherit my parents Rover 75 as they're collecting their new car next week, so I guess technically that's gonna be my first car! :pac:

6 Months insurance on it on a Learners Permit is E380 (not too bad considering it's a 2.0L)

rain on

First tried driving round a field in my da's pick-up truck, couldn't really get the hang of it.

Learned to drive properly in my ma's Mazda Demio, got added to her insurance as a named driver no bother. Then when I passed my test I bought my 02 Skoda Fabia and got insured for €700 or something.

SV

99Clio (great car etc :P)
paid 1600euro insurance and 3500 for the car, 19, provisional, zero no claims.
I was happy!

bladebrew

mines a delightful little saxo,cost 3.5k, a year and a half ago,mite just get 1 k for her now:mad:,insurance is 1400 due to conviction and points(ah well),good car to learn in because it is absolutely tiny!!

can still handle motorways,like a coke can!

zilog_jones

'98 Fiesta bought in 2006 for €2500, first car I looked at - probably not the best idea looking back as it hasn't exactly been trouble free (though the steering rack was my fault - hit a kerb too hard the first time I drove it) and the rust is creeping in. I like the quaintness of it all - radio cassette, windy windows, picture of a car where the tachometer is supposed to go etc., but as I've learnt we've got to a stage where people aren't used to not having central locking any more because I constantly have to remind people to lock the doors! :rolleyes:

On the dole now so no replacements for the forseeable future

Insurance was €2300 back when I was 21, €900 fully comp this year (got full license last year).

Max_Damage

This, my '90 Micra, bought it of my uncle for €200 in 2004:



Still have it too, minus a functioning engine.

Voodoomelon

I told this before somewhere I think.
Got a 97 Polo in January 08 for €800, started learning to drive in February (never sat behind a wheel in my life). Got a few lessons and my test came up in May and passed no problems. Got my licence 2 days later and flew to England to get the car I was always going to get.

Sold the Polo in July for €1300.

PCwiggum

My first was a Vauxhall Astra bought up north in the early 90's. I remember driving it through a "mucky field" before bringing it to customs for inspection to pay the VRT or whatever it was called then.

I was lucky with insurance too, joined some group scheme for engineers - can't remember the broker, but you also got a free mobile phone - I think it was called the Siemens "Brick"... Dem were the days.....:pac:

L-M

Another person with a Polo, mine was 99, in black... Great little car. Had absolutely no extra features so it had nothing to go wrong:D

johnk123

I learned to drive in a Mini Cooper S last year and passed my test first time recently! It wasn't my car, but even though it is a girls car (so they say!) it is a really good car to start driving in. It was small enough for me to gain confidence parking easily and is probably one of the reasons I'm confident driving now, and why my parents trust me enough to insure me!

I technically don't have my own car yet though, but am fully insured on one of my parents cars. Insurance wasn't cheap though! Considering the vehicle and that i only just got my full license

MrPudding

It was a long time ago, but the forst car I bought was a 1972 MGB GT, I bought it around 1982. It cost me £2500 and the insurance was £1500, in Northern Ireland.

MrP

Voodoomelon

Limerick man wrote: »

Another person with a Polo, mine was 99, in black... Great little car. Had absolutely no extra features so it had nothing to go wrong:D

Great wee car too learn to drive in. If you can drive an old Polo with no power steering and a heavy clutch, you can drive anything...

L-M

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Great wee car too learn to drive in. If you can drive an old Polo with no power steering and a heavy clutch, you can drive anything...

Very very true:D

Whosbetter?

Recently, my bro was telling me yhat he remembers me sitting on Dads lap steering his Triumph 2000 as we were speeding down the dual carriageway back in the mid '70s. I must have been 7 or 8 then.
First car I actually drove on the road was my uncles Avenger. That was in about '79. I could reach the pedals myself by then.
Throughout the '80s I would have been driving everything form Nuffield tractors to a Fiat Argenta, (Dad's again).
Somewhere along the line I got a Drivers licence & got my own set of wheels in '93. Twas an '81 Golf 1.1 Formel E. It cost £350 & was £640 to insure. PMPA wanted £1200!
Anyhoo, 6 months later I wrote it off in a drink fuelled escapade.

954 UZL R.I.P

rufio306

first car was a 99 306 Dturbo, super little car and could move too,

paid 1800e insurance with a full licence

only sold it last aprill and bought its big brother, a gti6:D

GalwayKiefer

Not a car I realise but my first set of wheels was a '98 Citroen Berlingo I bought off my dad when I was learning to drive. No rear-view mirror cos of the partition so it made learning to drive extra fun! :rolleyes: Passed my test and got rid of it, still see it around town sometimes. Never had a single issue with it, brilliant van.

chickenhawk

A 1990 merc. Either 190E or the 230 I forget. Bought it in 2003

Family discount and insurance was highish but god i loved that car.

Took driving lessons in my instructors car. Hated the thing too small and all that. So at the last second decided to take my merc for it. It was great. Turning circle was small, never stalled etc.

I want another one.

Spunog UIE

1994 1L Starlet which rocked with 4 gears and a manual choke for that smooth motorway experience. Overtaking anything going faster than 40mph was truely terrifying and took a airport runway strip to accomplish.

Car at the time cost around 2000, insurance at the time cost around 4000. As a student I still dont' know how the hell it got paid.

Never a days trouble tho and always started first time as long as ya pressed the accelerator a tinnny tinny bit

breadbin

first car i bought was a 98 mondeo and this was in 2003. loved it as soon as i sat in it and drove it. felt like a tank! lots of good memories and some not so good:)

Pete67

'81 Opel Kadett in a fetching shade of orange. It had a 1.2l petrol engine. Bought it for £350 around '92 and my first insurance cost me £411. Already had a full license though. It never let me down, I kept it for few years and drove it all over Ireland until I got a company car in '95 - a brand new 2.0 litre petrol Toyota Carina which I put 90k miles on in three years. It never let me down either. Actually 've been pretty lucky with cars so far /* touches wood quick*/

Run_to_da_hills

1986 first car.

1976 Renault 5 paid 200 quid for it. Sold it a year later and got a 1967 VW Beetle.

bazz26

1991 Nissan Sunny cost £3500.
Insurance was £2000 and that was only third party. :mad:

mondymike

95d23354 1.4 escort. loved that car, drove the life outta it and it still came back for more! i'd have it back in a heartbeat bought 2002 for 2200 and first policy on my own was 2900. makes me sick to think my brother has a 97 golf as his first and is complainin bout 1100 ins!!!

victor1

95 316 i compact beamer, fair heap o sh!te, paid cash, was only on a provisional and rang to get a quote off quinn, was actually ok quote as did not think they would insure me on class of car with a provisional and no prev driving experience, bought the car privately and activated the insurance, 5 miles out the road got a call from quinn saying there was a issue with the yoke they use to imput your info over the phone that gives quote and even though they imputed me as a provisional driver, the system put me in as a full licence, i started to rage saying that i had bought the car ect ect(shi&&ing a brick they'd take insurance away), but they put me on to supervisor and he said the fact that they had quoted me they had to stand by it but to take the test asap!! phew

martydunf

00 golf tdi
insurance €1280
paid for it meself (€8250:()

still have her today tho!

Gumbo

1998 Honda Civic Hatch 1.4i

had to pay Quinn direct 4600e for the insurance!

was 21 at the time though.

Hurley6969

A silver 1990 automatic micra cost me €500 insurance was €1900 would have been more if i hadn't valued the car at €1500. Sold it on for €700.