What was your first car ???

That guy Greg

I bought my first car in 83'.....a 69' 2-door Ford Cortina. I loved it and I hated it, I can still remember pulling up outside my house and a wing mirror falling off !! (Don'y ask me how it happened !!) Other thank the fading paint, rust patches, un-lockable passenger door, the passenger window that leaked, REALLY noisy exhaust and the 100 rips in the interior, it was GREAT. I can remember the day I got rear-ended by a bus !!! I almost cried....luckily the insurance paid out and I got sorted with a MK 2 Ford Fiesta .

So....what was you fist car ?? Why did you like it and why did you hate it ?

SV

Renault Clio 1.2 8v

Loved it cos it was my first run around, would have done anything in it..loads of road trips and memories in that car.
I'd love to buy it back!

Currently driving a Renaultsport 182 trophy 4ish years later.
Nothing I don't like about Clios.

Toots

A 00 Daewoo Matiz in green. I named it Kermit and I absolutely loved it, it was in great nick when I got it and I took really good care of it. It was so small you could nearly park it in a trolley bay and the fuel economy was fab, about €30 would do me for 3 weeks of driving in and out of work and other places. There was more room in the boot than you'd think also, managed to fit a lot of shopping in there.

Nothing I hated about it at all. I think I had it about 3 years and then I traded it in for a bigger car.

Yakult

98 1.4 Nissan Almera hatchback. Great car I must say.

El Sorab

91 Peugeot 405. Brilliant yoke. Still have it

alanmc

A 92 Suzuki Cultus (imported Swift) 1.0l. I got a new radio installed but after that, at night you could only use either lights or radio.

Only had it about 2 weeks and some scumbags burnt it out outside the house I was renting at the time in Clontarf.

I loved it cos I didn't have to take public transport anymore. Can't say I had it long enough to hate it. We were still in the honeymoon period when "the incident" occurred.

Jagera

1981 Toyota Celica.
Rubbish engine, same as the one in the old corolla.

pyramuid man

01 Citroen xsara.

Liked it cause it was comfortable and felt fairly solid on the road. It also did 40000 miles in the time it was driving.

For the two years i had it, it only drove for one of them due to big bills and a little bit of lazyness on my part. It was always one thing or another with it.

It got crushed yesterday.

Blazer

only started driving in 2002 so got a 98 Renault Megane for my first car...,.
those was tough times and I barely made it through it...no electric windows, no central locking and no aircon:eek:, but somehow I managed

daveyboy_1ie

Seat Ibiza, 1.05L. Brillant white with sunroof. Owner before me wanted to look like the real deal and had the GTi sticker on it so most people thought mine was the 1.8L one. Loved that car but had to sell it to go travelling, broke my heart doing it.

-Chris-

89 Opel Corsa 1.0.

Towards the end it was barely driving - you had to have the knack or it'd stop halfway across a junction :eek::)

old_aussie

A '59 VW beetle :cool:

MugMugs

old_aussie wrote: »

A '59 VW beetle :cool:

Niiiice !

Hope you started as you meant to go on ?


92 Honda Civic 4 door. Bought her off the docks. What a great car !

Plazaman

1988 Subaru Justy 1L. Learning to drive and it was perfect for the job, cost ridiculous euro, garage probably played me for a sap. The guy that owned it before me was a photographer. 3 weeks after I bought it he stands out on the street in front of me and asks can he check the back pockets. Sure enough in it were camera filters probably worth more than the car.

johnos1984

96 Opel Combo was my first vehicle but my first car was a 99 Avensis

scholar007

A 1983 Datsun / Nissan Sunny Safari. Blue with the safari go fast stripes, vinyl roof (What were car manufacturers thinking?) and a leaky sun roof. Bought it in 89 and it was very rusty then, actually, pieces of it were missing. One rear door had a dodgy hinge, the boot ended up being held closed by some wire and the head gasket blew - But I loved her.........!!

Seweryn

old_aussie wrote: »

A '59 VW beetle :cool:

A 1961 Volkswagen 1200 :cool:.

phil1nj

'95 Opel Corsa, red, 1.2l engine. Very big windows in the place where I bought it as they saw me coming. Had nothing but problems with it from day one.

vectra

1982 I bought a 1976 one of these
2.0 ohc

omb0wyn5ehpij9

A '99 1.4 Honda Civic

Quazzie

89 Daihatsu charade 1.0L Diesel.

Only had it a week before I wrote it off so I can't say I really hated it.

gs300

2008 Seat Leon 1.4 tsi

Daraghot

1986 Datsun/Nissan Prairie - it had both badges, myself and my buddies drove it up and down the East coast of Australia - never let us down.

We called it Corky.

sean1141

95 nissan micra import. great little car. put 40k on it in the 12 months i had it!! never gave me an ounce of bother

neilthefunkeone

1990 Mazda 323F... That's right the one with the flip up headlights!!! Big pimpin babay...:p

L-M

99 Polo, when I sold it the guy asked me how long did I reckon was left in it, I said many years. He's still driving around in it, the exact same way as I left it.

-Corkie-

1990 opel combo 1.6 diesel.. Slow as a wet week a good car though I crashed it 5 times.....

LarryMac

For my first car, in 1999 I acquired a 1988 Ford Escort. Blue lion print fluffy seat covers. Speedometer stuck at 188000 miles. No idea what speed I was moving at. Petrol level broke also so pot luck if you had enough fuel for the drive. Exhaust back box fell off whilst driving into Sandyford Industrial Estate in rush hour traffic. A bit of rust here and there... Sweet!

Max Power1

A much maligned 1996 1.3 fiesta.

I'd still drive it today if the clutch hadnt gone - and the repair would have been more than it was worth.

She's still parked up on the street lol

Mar4ix

Mazda

Mazda

eehhh ... bought it in 2000 , '89 2.0 petrol, lovely car, sold her in 2006, after couple months new driver was caught drunk, and car was scrapped(he didnt had money pay fines and parking charges). bbs alloys, all around brand new suspension, tires and very economical for 2 liter car.

Quazzie

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I don't think you quite get how this works.

Mar4ix

Quazzie wrote: »

I don't think you quite get how this works.

oops... changed

cyrusdvirus

1991 1.0L Ford Fiesta....

The White Wocket....

had it for 2 years before someone robbed and murdered it from outside where i worked.

It had a CHOKE!!! And a little Fido Dido (Before he came back) sticker on the back...

Oh yeah, and an injection sticker on the back too... I used to joke that the injection bit referred to what i had had the day i bought her.

The horn (on the light stalk) only worked when the lights were on.

Man i hated that car!!
But I wanted to be the one to put it to sleep, not someone else. So that annoyed me.

Yakuza

A 1981 Vauxhall Astra (bought from my Dad in 1990). Even though they were sold / badged here as the Opel Kadett, my Dad bought this from new (must have been a grey market import or something, I was only 11 at the time so didn't really know about these things), but it had a...*radio*. LW and MW bliss The first thing I did when I got my hands on it was to put in an FM radio / cassette deck. Cruising around wearing Ray Ban Wayfarers (the height of fashion:cool:), with GnR blaring out of the tinny speakers. Good times .

alastair

A 1966 two-door Morris Minor. Took it apart and put it back together again. Fitted twin carbs off a dumped MG Midget. Field car that was supposed to be a learner car to get a licence, but that didn't happen. Was eventually butchered as a donor car for another Minor.

Then a twenty year gap as a car didn't seem particularly useful.

Then a red, two-door early 90's Suzuki Swift, which joyriders tried to nick and buggered up the door fit and dash. Only had it a few months and sold it on to buy a Nissan Pao I spotted in London. Swift was perfect learner car - even without power steering - as it was light and forgiving. Probably not as good a car as a Micra - but slightly less granny looking. Put cappuccino alloys on it and sprayed the pillars black for that, eh, GTI look - if you squinted hard enough.

flyingsnail

99 1.0L Opel Corsa

spiggotpaddy

1974 ford eacort,in 1987. suprised its not more common in the list, because they were everywhere, although i was working in the uk at the time.

xaoifsx

08 subaru justy
(still current car)
its small and perfect
got it with spoiler, twin exhausts , and the wee stripes along the side of it

livingthedream

I got my first car back in 1998 and it was:

1988 alfa 33 1.5Ti

Loved that car!! errrr what rust?

laois hibby

first car in 1990 an 1983 2.3 sierra ghia. the father nearly killed me when i bought it saying i'll never get insurance on it. i was only 19 at the time.
£350 fully comp wasn't too bad then.
still wish i had it now

Ardennes1944

1.2 8v mk2 Punto....aka Betsy. bought it for 500, sold it for 650 to fund an astra which i severely disliked. wish i hadnt sold it now, a great simple little car.

jaybee747

Mine was a Citroen Ax 1.0 Pimped it out with Fido Dido stickers, a dozen spot lights and 2 yes 2 sets of Knight Rider lights, a beast it was, lol.

Tito Ortiz

Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »

1.2 8v mk2 Punto....aka Betsy. bought it for 500, sold it for 650 to fund an astra which i severely disliked. wish i hadnt sold it now, a great simple little car.

Haha, same story here bought a 1.2 Punto for 1400 sold it for 1600, bought an Astra. Should have stayed with the Punto:D

Nissan doctor

flyingsnail wrote: »

99 1.0L Opel Corsa

Snap.

Possibly still my most memerable car.

Mr. Manager

1998 Ford Fiesta - loved that little thing

flyingsnail

Nissan doctor wrote: »

Snap.

Possibly still my most memerable car.

Relatively hassle free motoring, except when you want to overtake:P. I thought I would kind of miss it until I sat into it again after having my mondeo for two weeks, no going back now:D good memories though.

Twin-go

Bought in 2003 on the day I passed my driving test, a 2000 Rover 25 1.4ie.

Had it for just under 2 years. Gearbox went after a friend borrowed it. With 105bhp from a 1.4 it was quite nippy. Traded it for a brand new Citroen C4 coupe in 2005 - which the misus still drives. I've gone through several cars since 2005 as I get bored easily:rolleyes:

Ardennes1944

LIGHTNING wrote: »

We should start a "I had a mk2 punto which I regret selling club" and we can have club tshirts printed that say "Headgaskets are for pussies"

im a real pussy so cos my 8v never went on me

Mar4ix

LIGHTNING wrote: »

We should start a "I had a mk2 punto which I regret selling club" and we can have club tshirts printed that say "Headgaskets are for pussies"

Actually bad headgaskets are on rovers k16 engines... and bad not a headgasket itself, but bad engine design (too long head bolts).

puntos has problems with cooling system, and if it fails, automatically headgasket gone. It is over owner negligence check coolant condition and level, reason of overheating and headgasket failure.

Collibosher

In 1987, after a few months of driving my mum's '73 VW Beetle, I bought a 1984 Ford Orion 1.6 GL.

In 5 years I only put a clutch and starter motor in to it.

It had 168,000 miles on it when I sold it for £250 in 1992, by which time the rust bug and well and truly taken hold.:rolleyes:

That guy Greg

Some really good replies here !!!