What was your first car and why did you choose it

[Fat hippo]

A chance to share just how boring or riduculous your first car was and why you choose it.

I'll start; in 1999 when I was 21 I bought a 4 year old e36 320i having read that it was supposed to be a good drivers car in various road tests when was at school during the 90s.
It was pants. It handled ok but was as interesting as watching paint dry and not much quicker than walking. Could have and should have got an e30 m3 or like a classmate, a 964 rs. But that's another story.

Really, should have waited a year or so for the launch of the new mini,

[Fat hippo]

Swanny87 said:

I don't mean to have a personal dig at you and I am just curious. What kind of background are you from when you and your mates can consider these kinds of cars at 21? Or was the bank crash really that bad in 2008 (coincidentally when I was 21)?

I wouldn't have asked if you hadn't said classmates as I would have assumed you had been working after your GCSE's...

Edited by Swanny87 on Wednesday 22 October 12:05

I got my first car at 21 after leaving uni and started my first job in 99.
My classmate lived with his dad in a 5 bed detached house after his parents split but his dad had a new range rover and merc sl500 at the time. This classmate then sourced a 964rs in 99 in ljd for around 29k euros if i remember correctly. Used his dads range rover for commuting the 2 miles to work.
He did start his own recruitment business in his early 20s but I would suggest his dad helped with the car.
All I knew about his dad was that he was a finance director, and his son once wore his dads 33k rolex at school back in the early 90s.

Just to be clear, he was a classmate not a friend