What was your first car after graduation?

[glazbagun]

Something I like to ponder for next year when Cameron/Brown/Clegg has led us to economic utopia and I have to fight off all the lucarative job offers. Did you just rock up and sign on the line for a brand new Elise/Golf GTI, or were you banging around in a shed for the first few years trying to shed student debt?

[RicksAlfas]

It was 1993.
I had a Nova 1.3 SR in red with a replica(!) Momo MonteCarlo steering wheel on it.

[trickywoo]

Audi UR Quattro

It was a shed

Edited by trickywoo on Friday 16th April 16:06

[v15ben]

It was 2008.
I kept my old 1.0 Micra and saved up to travel round Asia instead

[snotrag]

glazbagun said:

Something I like to ponder for next year when Cameron/Brown/Clegg has led us to economic utopia and I have to fight off all the lucarative job offers. Did you just rock up and sign on the line for a brand new Elise/Golf GTI, or were you banging around in a shed for the first few years trying to shed student debt?

Optimisim eh.

I'm worse off now than when I did my industrial placement, and driving a cheaper car too!

[kambites]

A 1974 MGB Roadster, this was in 2001.

[mercfunder]

Golf GTI convertible, it was the 80's after all.
It's all been downhill since then, bloody company car schemes.

Edited by mercfunder on Friday 16th April 16:09

[HereBeMonsters]

lol@ this topic.

Was this one of those courses where the Uni almost guarantees you'll "walk into a £40k a year" job straight out of Uni?

Get a shed. Welcome to the real world.

[MattGTA]

kambites said:

A 1974 MGB Roadster, this was in 2001.

I had a 1974 teal blue GT in 2001.

My first car after graduation was a 1991 mini flame with an AvonBar stage 1 kit, a K&N and a JanSpeed exhaust.

[kambites]

MattGTA said:

kambites said:

A 1974 MGB Roadster, this was in 2001.

I had a 1974 teal blue GT in 2001.

My first car after graduation was a 1991 mini flame with an AvonBar stage 1 kit, a K&N and a JanSpeed exhaust.

Mine was glacier white with a health hint of rust brown; I hate white cars.

[john_p]

glazbagun said:

Something I like to ponder for next year when Cameron/Brown/Clegg has led us to economic utopia and I have to fight off all the lucarative job offers. Did you just rock up and sign on the line for a brand new Elise/Golf GTI, or were you banging around in a shed for the first few years trying to shed student debt?

I bought a new E46 M3.
It was stupid but great fun

[williamp]

An 11 year old BMW 320i. But that was my 4th car. I'm sure as a graduate with your skills you'll be able to choose exactly who you work for, how much you wnat to be paid, and therefore be in a position to have something really new and tasty immediately.... :snigger:

[siwebster]

Hmm, strangely, one of these:



Made it out of my old 2CV. Was good fun

[matchmaker]

anonymous said:

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I graduated from the school of life. First car - 1964 Vitesse. Cost all of £80 (in 1976).

[Size Nine Elm]

April 1986. Got an Alfa Sud 1.4.


December 1986. Alfa Sud 1.4 scrapped due to rust...

[Munter]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I think it's also spelt "crippling debt pushed on 50% of school leavers by a labour government".

Which generally results in: Buy a car! I can't really afford a bus ticket to the Job Center.

[snotrag]

Munter said:

I think it's also spelt "crippling debt pushed on 50% of school leavers by a labour government".

Oh yeah, thats it!

[davidjpowell]

1999. Nearly new Pug 406 1.8 Petrol. Ran it for 2.5 years and 100,000 miles. Dixons at the time were doing 3 year unlimited mileage warrenty on used cars....

Then qualified and given a company car. Perhaps that should be the next thread - what was your first company car?

[BigBen]

W123 series Mercedes 280E

Was amazingly cheaper to insure than more modern stuff at the time (1999) and a lot cooler IMO

Ben

[MrLou]

matchmaker said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I graduated from the school of life. First car - 1964 Vitesse. Cost all of £80 (in 1976).

Graduating from school of life? I hope you don't do that for many more years yet