The first car you ever drove?

qz

Note: this is partly a thread in which I can show off, but I'd still like to know what you guys drove first.

E39 M5

kittenkiller

My boyfriends mothers Yaris!
1st & last time driving!
(if i were to learn in either of my parents cars, i'd have trouble deciding which to wreck 1st, the bmw or the merc!)

De Hipster

Mine was a '94 Mini Cooper...go-kart with attitude!

Robbo

E30 320i and I would have been 11 or 12 at the time.

qz

kittenkiller wrote:

My boyfriends mothers Yaris!
1st & last time driving!
(if i were to learn in either of my parents cars, i'd have trouble deciding which to wreck 1st, the bmw or the merc!)

The Merc! Save the Beamer!

kittenkiller

But the merc's newer & an automatic.

drdre

a 02 volvo S80 T6(twin turbo) and i'm only 20:D i drove this when i was 18

qz

kittenkiller wrote:

But the merc's newer & an automatic.

This may be my motoring fanboy-ism coming through, but here goes: **** the Merc, Beamers are better!

That is all.

kittenkiller

GOD NO!

The mercs are so much smoother!
They're a real luxury.
Even the old battered taxis going round are smooth in most cases.

BMWs are nice n all, but there's no real comparison with the merc at all!

BMW's got the label but Mercedes've got the quality.

Sorry, back on topic now!
Sorry!

qz

I sense a poll coming on, but you're right (but not about the Mercs), back to the topic!

aidan_dunne

Mercs, Beemers, jaysus! :rolleyes: Bunch of spoilt brats, the lot of ye!

Me? Mark II Ford Escort! Now there's a real car for ye! Get her arse swinging out and steer from the rear, as we say down in these parts! Ploughed up a field on my grandfather's farm in that baby....... literally! He didn't need to get the tractor out to plough it up after I'd taken the Escort out across it! The only car we ever owned in the family where I actually cried when it was being brought away on a trailer after my father sold it. I miss it to this day and would give anything for one last spin across the fields in her.

G'wan D'Escorts!

bazz26

My dad's old 1988 Nissan Bluebird from about 12 years ago. Comfortable car but midevil 1.8 with a 0-60 in hours rather than seconds makes a 1.4 Golf feel like a pocket rocket.

Had the handling of a runaway barge but at least it had power steering. Fortunately rust made it 100% biodegradeable.

dahamsta

I think the first car I drove unlicenced (with permission, in a driveway) was the mother's MK1 Fiesta. I'd love to restore one now.

First legal car would've been her Daihatsu Domino. Naff looking, but it was a great little car, never caused any trouble and it went like a rocket in the low gears.

After that I drove two Starlets - awful cars, as I've mentioned before - and a '94 Colt, which was another great car.

First car of my own was my current '93 525i. At 32. Late bloomer to ownership.

Have a hankering for a 7 series now...

adam

AlienGav

Shuurup Kitten!

Dooom

My dad's BMW 318Ci.
Course it being my first time behind the wheel of a car (I think my father doesn't like me sometimes), I didn't have a clue it was RWD and so more or less dropped the clutch and pinned the accelerator simultaneously.

Result: A lot of yelling, me shaken to bits, and the car very nearly buried into a wall. Can't wait to get my own

AlienGav

Anyways...

Back on topic

I sympatise with ya Bazz! A bluebird was the first ever car i drove too!

I was about 10yrs old and drove it about 10 ft! I felt like Juan Pablo!

The second time i drove, I was 16, in a cheapo 88 Fiesta, managed to get 11 ft in it this time... before i wrapped it around our garden gates! :mad:

Great little car tho

astec123

Had a quick move of a Landrover discovery 3litre, that was the first car I had a go in, was 15 at the time.

dahamsta

Spike wrote:

Course it being my first time behind the wheel of a car (I think my father doesn't like me sometimes), I didn't have a clue it was RWD and so more or less dropped the clutch and pinned the accelerator simultaneously.

Result: A lot of yelling, me shaken to bits, and the car very nearly buried into a wall.

LOL, I did much the same on my first bike (Cagiva Mito 125) about ten years ago. I was just after dropping into the old man to show off and popped the clutch a mite too fast, went bombing across two lanes of traffic on the back wheel. He just laughed his ass off at me.

Which was ironic, since I did the exact same thing about ten years before that the first time a mate gave me a spin on his trials bike. Ended up running behind it trying to get the frontend down, which is rather difficult whe your right hand is giving it more welly the harder you try.

adam

aidan_dunne

Spike wrote:

My dad's BMW 318Ci.
Course it being my first time behind the wheel of a car (I think my father doesn't like me sometimes), I didn't have a clue it was RWD and so more or less dropped the clutch and pinned the accelerator simultaneously.

Result: A lot of yelling, me shaken to bits, and the car very nearly buried into a wall. Can't wait to get my own

Ah yeah, you can't beat rear-wheel-drive for some serious laughs. Hence my love for the mkII Escort. Great crack!

bazz26 wrote:

Had the handling of a runaway barge but at least it had power steering. Fortunately rust made it 100% biodegradeable.

After the Escort we had a 1987 Opel Ascona. 2-litre, fuel injected engine. Quite a step up from a 1.3 carbed engine, I can tell you! :eek: The car itself was shíte, body wasn't in great nick, always seemed to be breaking down or had something go wrong with it but, my God, that engine! Absolutely savage! You barely had to touch the accelerator, literally just breath gently on it, and the bítch took off like a rocket. Amazing power. I scared myself (and my father! ) a few times in that car, I can tell you! :eek:

Luckily bazz, as you say, your Bluebird had power steering. Our Ascona didn't and with it being such a big, heavy car with that big, heavy lump of metal up front and it being front-wheel drive, it was a real pain in the arse, or should I say arms, to drive. No need to go to a gym, all you had to do was take that car out for a 20 minute drive and you'd come back with arms on you like Arnold Swartzenegger!

chicken_food

First car i drove was an 89 porshe carrera. The classic flat top spoiler ones. It was an automatic so it doesnt count as 'driving' in my books. First time using clutch and gears was a ford mondeo V6. Nearly planted it into a wall in UCD.

aidan_dunne

First automatic I ever drove was a 1988 Nissan Bluebird. Of course, not being used to driving an automatic, I instinctively kept pushing my left foot down onto the floor and reaching for the gearstick and I had to keep reminding myself it wasn't necessary.

DubTony

Holy Crap. Porsches, Mondeo V6's, Beemers, a Volvo S80. Who are you people?

My first drive was a Fiat 127. Magic little thing. My mother owned it and when my folks were out I'd take it for a spin. I was 16, so no licence and obviously no insurance .... Jesus, not even any lessons. I was 16. Smacked a kerb one night and blew the front left tyre. Changed the wheel and got my girlfriends mother to buy a new tyre next day. Had to put that on the car and drive it a bit just to dirty it up. Great fun, but when I think back :eek:

First legal drive was a Renault 18 GTS. Yup, Daddy's car. It wasn't until he bought the second 18 that I started to smash them up. :rolleyes:

dahamsta

chicken_food wrote:

First time using clutch and gears was a ford mondeo V6. Nearly planted it into a wall in UCD.

Best place for a Mundane tbh.

causal

Ford Cortina mkII


causal

Squirrel

Maserati Ghibli, that was when I was 12, I also used to drive alot of V6 Audi's and Golf Gti's along with the more mundane VW's and weaker Audi's.

IANOC

mr2 turbo

Stephen

First car I drove was an early '90s vectra 1.6. I was about 14 at the time and nearly crashed it into a tree (this was not on the road, fortunately). It was a few years before I got to drive again
Then it was an 800cc Daewoo Matiz belonging to my mother... a beast indeed. After that it was her 1 litre Corsa, after a few months of that I finally passed my test and got my own car ... 1.25 Fiesta Zetec.

$lash

A mini 850 City ...

AlisonB

An Xr2i ...

dpr

my first drive was a 94 escort, had about 3/4 lessons from the father when i was 17. in around the raheen industrial estate in limerick with all the other drivers. I was going way too fast driving down hill to a bend, paniced, stuck my foot to the brakes, pulled up the hand brake and did a 180 turn. Didn't bother learning to drive properly for another 4 years!

Alfasudcrazy

First car I ever drove (by myself) was those old boxy Fiat 124's - was petrified I would smash it up as I was driving through a town but I managed to get there without any problem.
Even though I had a provisional licence I had just got a job in a garage and told the boss I was well able to drive when in fact I had only ever before driven a mini a few miles on a straight wide road. :rolleyes:

Pretty soon I was flying around in Granada 2.8GL's and RS2000's as if I had actualy been driving for years.