What was your first car?

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What did u love about it?
What did u hate about it?

Me,im still on my first car,only driving bout 2 years.Its a 01 fiesta,well,i love it caus its small,nippy and cheap to insure.
What i hate about it?Its small and its a horrible wine colour !!

Anan1

A 1968 Lancia Fulvia 1.3 Sport. I loved everything about it, still miss it.

blackbox

Fiat 127 -

colour:Georgia Brown

name: Humphrey.

For: Interior space, handling, performance of 903cc engine, comfort, fun.

Against: Oil consumption (engine was clapped), rust, timing chain noise.

Hotwheels

1977 957 Fiesta...burnt the valves out in it...rusty...very rusty....:D

Still miss my Mk111 XR3i, built out of a RS shell...loved that car

Don't miss the festy at all...

Slidey

A 1986 golf 1.6 diesel.. zs 3574! Bought off a lady in dunsaughlin (sp) for £300 and a box of roses! (never seen a drop o white in its life!)
Lasted well until i ran out of road 18 months later as my father predicted!
Loved... my independance
Hated... list too long, twas a heap, drivers seat leaned back to left and everything electric was dodge. Battery held in with cable ties where the chassis had rotted away!!

brayblue24

grey 1985 ford fiesta (no name, not into that sort of thing)

that car could tell some stories though. it was able to drive itself home too..

dlambirl

a 2000 3dr 1.4ltr volkswagen golf when i was 17......

loved: everything about it, it was fast and looked fab

hated: nothing that i can think of!!

have a 1.4 ltr toyota corolla 2003 at the min but selling it for something bigger and diesel

Senna

1994 Diahatsu Charade 1ltr turbo diesel

For; very economical, no rust, bodywork was like new. never gave a days bother in the 1.5 years i had it. passed both nct's without doing anything to it.

Against; slow and slower

Loved that car so much, i will buy another one some day just for the memory.

themadchef

Ahh fond memories. 1996
It was an '86 Seat Ibiza (SI) reg plate...makes me feel old now

She was black, loved the fact that she had electric windows and a cute go faster stripe....and she gave me my wings of freedom. 500 quid and 2k to insure if i remember correctly.

Hated the fact that while pulling into the estate i was living in in Lexlip the brakes decided to have a day off, but no damage done thank God.

Man i loved that car, all the way to the scrappage deal and my shiny new Fiat Punto.

Stephen

2000 Fiesta Zetec 1.25 3 door.

For:
Fun to drive, pretty economical, quick for what it is.

Against:
Skanky white dials on the dash, basic as feck (I think the only electric things in it were the radio and the lights ), dodgy locks that had a habit of not unlocking whenever they felt like it, and it ate an exhaust.

Tomohawk

My first car was a white 998cc rover Mini in the late eighties. It had terrible electrics, but still it was my first car. I always remember the time it stalled on me one summer on the Temple hill in Blackrock in evening rushhour, and took more than a little while to get started again. :rolleyes:

Another time my sister had a house party and 'cos the mini only had a petrol cap with no lock or key, one of her "guests" pissed in the fuel tank! I sold the car for scrap 6 months later.

3 years ago we bought another rover mini and had it for a year, a great classic car I must say and a lot of fun to drive...

cianclarke

First car was a 1998 Hyundai Accent 1.3l.

For: Plenty of pep for a small car, O.K. coupe styling, easy to work on - did a lot of work to it myself. Incredibly reliable, I put up 20k on this car and no trouble whatsoever.

Against: Too small for me, I'm 6' 3" and found even with seat fully back it was too small.

This was two years ago, around when I turned 17. Had the car for about a year and a half, and I'm now driving a 00' Passat 1.6 - even though small engined you can feel the extra power. More comfort, legroom... Fantastic car. Could be yours for 5.2k, I want a bimmer now.

Max_Damage

It's listed in my sig, my '90 Micra, and I still have it too.

For: Cheap too run, easy to fix and service, lack of power everything makes for a more rewarding drive IMO, surprisingly good torque from the engine, & I like the boxy 80's design of it (I'm probably the only one who does! ),

Against: Dodgy handling, paint work in poor condition, temperamental carburettor, burns oil, lack of rear seatbelts, & it tends to rattle at motorway speed.

That said, I intend on keeping it well into the future.

vestanpance

92 Citroen AX with manual choke, constantly broke down but I learned a lot about fixing cars from that.

Magown3

1991 Peugeot 205 GTi, white, imported by myself.

LOVED: The speed, the handling, the fact that it bit back when you pushed it too far. I faced the wrong way on a roundabout once or twice!! The looks it got and people constantly asking me was it for sale That was a big boost to the ego!

LOATHED: Reliability issues. I had to do something to it every weekend. Was great for 9 months but then I got tired of constantly maintaining it.

Still have it and have to do some work to the engine before I sell it on... Will be sad to see it go

HungryJoey

Peugeot 306 1.4 ! Still have it.. not too long. I like it, comfy, nippy, stylish ( for a 99 ) half leather.

Hj

kikel

1995 Toyota Corrolla 1.3 Xli Hatchback

For: very reliable

Against 1. My mates reckoned it was a farmers car. And i got dogs abuse about it.
2. It was red. I hate red and i never polished it so it turned pink. Got abuse over that too.

Stky10

Ford Ka

For: Never a problem with it, nippy enough, easy to park and good for city traffic

Bad: Oldish engine could have done with an upgrade, lack of power on an open road, crap basic radio, lack of key fob, the slagging I got for driving it (I'm not the smallest)

bazz26

1991 Nissan Sunny 1.4 litre

For: Great little engine, power steering, good fuel economy and comfortable.

Against: Driver's door lock was dodgy, heater blew cold air all the time, black bumpers faded to grey.

HashSlinging

1990Nissan bluebird 1.8 SLX fully loaded, still going, see it around a good bit. I still think its one of the best looking cars ever. Every nissan was crap after this.

stepbar

1999 Clio 1.2RN. Nippy wee car, good from 0-60. Not hard on the juice.

Senna

HashSlinging wrote: »

1990Nissan bluebird 1.8 SLX fully loaded, still going, see it around a good bit. I still think its one of the best looking cars ever. Every nissan was crap after this.

Love truly is blind:D:D;)

I do think its nice too, same as the pre-1990 Toyota Corrolas and Starlets, something about all those angular jap cars.

rainbowtrout

1987 1.0L Ford Fiesta


It only had 4 gears, and a manual choke which was great fun the first few times I drove her as the car I learned in didn't have one. The tape deck chewed up tapes on a regular basis.The handbrake was crap so I couldn't really park on steep hills.... ah the days before NCT.

But I was everywhere from Donegal to Cork in that car, it was really reliable.. just so old and starting to fall apart

Six weeks after I traded in I got a called from the gardai asking me if I was the owner of car, told them about the trade in, was gutted when they told me my first car had been found burnt out, dealer had obviously sold it on and not changed over my details or something. a sad end to my first car.

The Real B-man

Still on my First Car

2001 1.0 Litre, Seat Ibiza Stella

For: Looks cool well built very economical good interior electric windows etc

Against: The Head unit with the intergrated tape deck :mad:

promethius

95 Honda Prelude 2.2 L (non-vtec)

Red, blacked out windows, electric everything & all the trimmings, nice rims etc... sweet.......

good: fun to drive, rock solid japanese engineering, good looks, lots of poke, plenty of front passenger room

bad: looks like the ride of a mid/entry level drug dealer, cops like to pull it over, glove compartment is too small to hold anything over a fairly short paperback :-)

eringobragh

1995 Corsa 1.2

For: Good runabout for learning in, Easy Drive. No too slow but not to quick either!

Against: Rubbish Gearbox (Drove mates same ****e), Hard to start if its left unstarted for 2 weeks. Cheapy Interior. No Power Steering (Didn't bother me though). Not build to house 5 people!:D

Had this for a year before i got a company van and i was glad to see the back of it. I'd never but another Opel tbh.

pow wow

2004 VW polo 1.2 E55

Love: Very easy to drive, loads of room, great petrol consumption and a clutch that is my best friend

Hate: So small it wobbles on windy days (and it's always windy up North!), weird noise it makes when I hit 100kph and lack of electric windows...swipe card parking means a full up and down around 8 times a day.:rolleyes:

BnA

ellscurr wrote: »

2004 VW polo 1.2 E55

Love: Very easy to drive, loads of room, great petrol consumption and a clutch that is my best friend

Hate: So small it wobbles on windy days (and it's always windy up North!), weird noise it makes when I hit 100kph and lack of electric windows...swipe card parking means a full up and down around 8 times a day.:rolleyes:

1992 Ford Escort

For :
It was mine. after 5 years of being broke in college and bumming lifts I was mobile.
It had a sunroof
I picked up a nice (well I thought they were anyway) set of alloys for it.

Against :
Pretty much everything else, but mainly, it was slow slow slow

Fizman

Still on my first as im only driving 15 months. Have a black VW Golf MarkIV 1.4 (2000). Nice car for a first imo, and I can't say I hate anything about it. The few things I dislike being the rear tinted window (a bitch at night time and makes it look a little bit boy racery at times) and the fact it has only 75hp. I do a nice bit of mileage per month around the country and would like a bit more poke! Apart from that I like it a lot.

rebel.ranter

I had a 1976 Mini that consumed 5 engines, well my enthusiastic driving did!
Here I am 15 years ago heading off on a trip, looks really retro with the Escort in the backgroundscary stuff:

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Cost me £100 at the time, moved onto this then:

prospect

A 1985 Citroen BX - 1.9 Diesel

For: Very Comfy - Cool alternative to standard control stalks - Rotating Drum Speedo

Against - Slow - No Power Steering (and boy was it heavy....)