Learning to fix your car

[MrK85]

If you were going to learn how to fix cars, keep them running etc, what car would you want to learn on? I've got a 54 plate 320d but it's the family car so don't fancy getting it wrong with a wife and a newborn in it. Would you just pick a car you actually like, or something cheap that you can "play around" with?

[MrK85]

This is awesome, wasn't expecting this kind of response! My wife would LOVE it if I bought a Defender and if I could get it up to scratch over time, then it's a great way to do it. Likewise with the MX5, different option but they're really cheap to buy the old ones as well. Don't have a garage with my house, so would likely rent one for pretty cheap locally. Quite excited about the opportunity to do this and always embarrassed that I know nothing about fixing cars. Used to be able to play around with my old Aprilia but that was a little smaller!!