What was/is your first car?

[Slow]

Got a 1.8 diesel 03 ford focus as my first car. £2700 insurance for the year...

Worst part is the car is fairly broken.

[tuscan30]

1967 mk1 Cortina 1200cc saloon - and IT wasn't particularly old at the time. I on the other hand am slightly pre-historic.

Things did improve after the Cortina though.

[jet_noise]

Dear S,

last time this was asked it wasn't a car it was a van.
'63 Morris 1/4 ton (Minor) bought in 1976.
It wasn't broken at the time but it was scrapped in 3 months,

regards,
Jet

[Triumph Man]

It was - and still is - a 1971 Triumph 2000. Loved the 6 cylinder roar at the end of a school day!

[Captain Muppet]

1979 2CV. 602cc of throbbing manliness.





It was free.

[CedricN]

Bought a Porsche 924 back when i was 17, brilliant fun !

[Lizardking]

E30 325i when I was 21

[Benjy911]

Started in a 1.2 Corsa, and now have a 1.8 Corsa!

[reymatt]

2001 Saxo VTR at 17.

Still miss it sometimes.

[Nuclearsquash]

A J reg, red, 1l 4 speed Polo. It was awesome.

[LuS1fer]

tuscan30 said:

1967 mk1 Cortina 1200cc saloon - and IT wasn't particularly old at the time. I on the other hand am slightly pre-historic.

Things did improve after the Cortina though.

The Mk II was launched in 1966 though???

My first car was an Austin A40 Farina Mk II with a mighty 1098cc A-series engine. I had it for 2 years and it was a great car, taking all sorts of abuse and copious amounts of filler. It was certainly better than the Mk II Cortina that replaced it.

ATG 482B where are you now....er, in the scrapyard and reduced to oxide if truth be known.

[elliotff]

Renault Clio 1.2 1995....

[JonnyFive]

reymatt said:

2001 Saxo VTR at 17.

Still miss it sometimes.

I miss my C2 VTR, which was my first car.

£3500 insurance

[CurvaParabolica]

elliotff said:

Renault Clio 1.2 1995....

Snap; An "electric blue" J-reg 1.2 Clio RN. Probably rose-tinted specs but I actually miss it now; probably it's simplicity more than anything else.

[Herman Toothrot]

Drive my parents 1989 mini for learning and test.

Then was named driver but rarely drive their other cars, a Celica GT & a Camry V6GX as I was away at university in a city so a car would only have been a burden.

After uni when I got my 1st car of my own it was an Audi 2.0E Avant, think it was £550 fully comp parked on the streets of Oxford, car cost me £3k

[Baryonyx]

My first car was a blue 2001 Fiesta Zetec S with insurance at £1600. The car cost £2495. I found the sale receipt for it not so long ago. Wish I had kept it longer. It was great.

[TheD]

My Grandfathers Morris Traveller was my first car. Magic it was. Then it was a canary yellow MK1 Escort. I was sure I seen it on Ebay as a scrapper lately

[Ennoch]

Wow, it's only ten years but insurance has really jumped. My first car was an original Fiat Bravo 1.8, swifty replaced with the 2.0 HGT - at 17 that only cost '£1100' a year to insure fully comp! If £3k was asked back then for me to insure a lump of tin there's no way I'd have been able to justify, or more importantly, afford it. Absolutely mental.

I loved the car though, it was underrated and no young drivers really had them at the time so they hadn't got the 'halfords special bodykit' treatment. Predictable if tail happy handling when chucking it around, and a lot of brakes too to get you out of trouble. Both of them taught me a lot about how to handle a car with a little assistance from a mate.

[bp1]

1969 Triumph GT6 MKII, should never have sold it. Replaced with a 'grown up' Citreon BX with the wacky controls and dash.

[vixen1700]

First car I bought at the age of 18 was a 1972 MGB GT in 1985.