What was your first car? 🚘

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Not really, but that’s what happened.

Technically it’s my current car, a black 2016 Seat Leon Ecomotive (diesel). I could have gotten something a bit flasher on the company car scheme, but I was a brand new driver and was worried I’d wrap anything nippy round a tree.

They rang me up and said I’d used less than half of the allowance on it, and would I like to add any extras? So now it’s like the Batmobile on the inside and I still get some money back each month.

Never seen one of those before. What’s the idea of that - a Polo estate?

B reg Renault 5 in ‘gun metal’ grey - a slightly darker version of this (only in worse) nick…

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Bought it for £225 and it was an absolute pile of shit. Only managed to keep it roadworthy as my stepdad is a mechanic and I used to work part time at his garage in the school holidays.

Kept it going for five years incredibly, including regular runs from Kent to Yorkshire for university, until it quite literally fell apart one day. RIP :+1:

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You were driving a 90’s Escort coupe with a body kit buddy. No court in the land will believe that.

The TVs old P reg 106 had the same thing.

That spoiler :grinning:

It certainly did not have a bodykit on it.

  • no airbags
  • no power steering
  • no central locking
  • no electric windows
    *no air con
  • tape player
  • CD player
  • aerial you had to pull out/coat hanger aerial
  • keypad immobiliser
  • keyfob immobiliser
  • manual choke
  • crashed first car in under a year

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It came like that as standard. They knew their market.

edit: I might add that it was bought for me very second hand by my dad.

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It’s a right of passage that your first car should be some second hand load of old shite innit.

If that photo’s accurate it did (whether Ford put it on as standard or otherwise).

Imagine you had some pretty testy times with speed bumps in that thing with that bumper on it!

No, it was the same size as the normal polo, but had a higher trim level, I think.

Fiat Uno. Red.

A blue Clio just like that was my first proper car that I owned. Unreliable piece of junk but I loved it.

I learned to drive and use my mum’s car a lot before that - a W reg Toyota Yaris. It was actually a decent car and pretty fun to drive.

Finish paying off my Golf next year and then thinking about turning into an Audi/BMW wanker

Volvo 460 TD. Maroon.

Black 03 reg Renault Clio, purchase inspired by the Thierry Henri ‘papa/nicole’ adverts. Bought partially by my dad as a graduation present because I was moving down to England and had a long drive to work. Kept it until 2012 so did about 250000 miles on it. By the time I traded it in to We Buy Any Car (£150) the thing was falling apart and not road worthy, when I applied the brakes the hazard lights would come on! Was a great first car to be honest, but if I had to drive it now I’d probably cry.

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still dont have a car, passed my test like 6 months ago

E reg Mini City, bought in 1996. Looked just like this:

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I had it for about 6 months before I wrapped it round a tree :roll_eyes:

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