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parents get you? i mean were most of you driving your parents' car or a real old one? did any of you here, your parents bought you a new one? mostly directed at you americans here, as maybe in most other countries it wouldn't be legal yet

I shared a car with my older sister although I never really drove it. Didn't get my own car until college when my parents bought a 96 camry from my mom's friend's mom who couldn't drive anymore.

Haha imagine being able to afford more than one car in America.

my parents bought me my first car at 14 to teach me to drive early, albeit in empty parking lots

but anyway, 01 jetta

I didn't think this was actually a thing. Nobody in my family that I know of had this happen.

1997 Buick Regal LS. The car was another family car until dad had a stroke. Mom kept the SUV and let me keep the Buick. Around the same time I got my license, mom and dad bought an older SUV for dad to drive after he recovered enough.

When I was a senior in high school, my parents got me a new Civic.

I didn't get my license until I was 18. It took me a long time to get comfortable driving on my own. Anyway, my first car was my mom's Honda CRV. She wanted a new car, so the timing worked out really well.

I bought my first car when I was like 19. It was a piece of shit that cost 500$ and couldn't go faster than about 50~. That said, for what it cost it did the job for a good while.

The idea of my parents buying me one, at least back then, is hilarious.

ragnarokius posted...

I bought my first car when I was like 19. It was a piece of shit that cost 500$ and couldn't go faster than about 50~. That said, for what it cost it did the job for a good while.

The idea of my parents buying me one, at least back then, is hilarious.

why would the idea be hilarious though?

1993 Toyota Tercel. Manual transmission

1994 Ford Escort GT. My parents got it for my oldest sister as a 16th birthday gift, then it got passed down to my next sister, then finally to me.

That thing was surprisingly fun as hell to drive. Had a Miata engine in it IIRC, though it was FWD.

last bumpu

I was driving my mom's 1993 Toyota Camry

DoubleOSnake posted...

parents get you?

Hahahhahahahaj

No. I drove my Mom's car.

I only started learning to drive in my early 30s, I had horrible anxiety when trying before the.

I was going to be handed down a 91 Ford Ranger but cash for clunkers happened and it got sold off so I ended up getting my mom's 2001 Escape. This was 2008.

MrResetti posted...

I was going to be handed down a 91 Ford Ranger but cash for clunkers happened and it got sold off so I ended up getting my mom's old 2001 Escape

i remember that cash for clunkers. I did that program as well. Looking back do you think that was a good program?

You cant get your licence until youre 17 where I grew up. By that point I had already been living completely independently of my parents for over a year. They never bought me a car, and I didnt have one until I was in my twenties because I was broke.

Funnily enough, I don't have one now because I'm loaded.

My dad helped me with a 1991 Toyota Corolla. Drove it till the day I enlisted.

I didn't learn how to drive until I was 26 or 27. Anywhere I needed to be before that I could just walk to or take a bus. Also no one wanted to teach me. My dad was supposed to when I was 18 but he never did.

My parents bought me a low mileage Toyota Auris.

It was OK to drive. Very ugly, though.

I never did the car thing

I bought an ancient 88 Ninja in hs because girls that wanted to disappoint their daddies loved guys with bikes. I was very happy to be that disappointment

no, i never had my own car. my grandma would have given me her car eventually but i never got a permit

I didn't have a car until I was around 20. I was the only child who didn't get a car in my family besides my little sister who can't drive. I got to drive my dad's car at first.

My parents more than made it up to me by helping me pay and finance my second and third cars though, which was really, really nice.

I didn't get my license until I was 24 and got my first car at 25. Bought it off my sister for a few hundred dollars cause she was moving someplace she wouldn't need one.

do a lot of you guys who waited until you were like 25, live in nyc or somewhere where it isn't super important if you can drive?

I borrowed my mom's car, a marron 89 camry or my dad's car, a light blue 90 camry. My family did not have the means to buy me a vehicle.

DoubleOSnake posted...

do a lot of you guys who waited until you were like 25, live in nyc or somewhere where it isn't super important if you can drive?

Ive always lived in cities, so driving has never been massively necessary. And now I live in a city that really doesnt have that many cars on the road.

1990 Oldsmobile cutlass ciera

I was 15 when I got my license, and my dad bought a used fleet vehicle from his company for me. 1990 Buick Century. It was a pretty decent first car.

I had an electric blue Geo Metro like this fancy boy right here

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/1/AAakoXAAEzhR.jpg

Some 80s Chevy Citation. It held up for about 2 years. One night I was returning from my girlfriends house when the head-gasket blew. RIP Chevy.

Didn't get my license until 21, but I got a heavily used '05 Chrysler Town and Country from my uncle.

It had many issues and I frequently had to take it in to the mechanic. After about a year, I sold it and bought a 2015 Ford Escape from my mom for half off. Still driving that Ford to this day, it's been serving me well so far.

Nissan Frontier 2006 crew cab or something.
It was my dad's, and I rarely got to drive. I was okay with that because I didn't have to deal with paying for gas and I sure as hell didn't want a job at the time.

1985 Dodge Colt that my friends called "Billy Dee". I was older than my friends by like 6 months so I had a car first.

Half the time wouldn't start until you popped the hood and took the top off the air filter.

aarrgus posted...

1985 Dodge Colt that my friends called "Billy Dee". I was older than my friends by like 6 months so I had a car first.

Half the time wouldn't start until you popped the hood and took the top off the air filter.

Wow you're kinda old, compared to most on this site

MabusIncarnate posted...

I had an electric blue Geo Metro like this fancy boy right here

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/1/AAakoXAAEzhR.jpg

Hey, thats what I learned to drive on.

When I turned 16 I got my grandmothers 77 thunderbird that had been sitting in a freestanding garage somewhere, after one of her friends died and left her an 80s Oldsmobile.

This was in 2001/2.

*I posted this and got some kind of censor bypass warning about ghey for gay and am just confused

Started with a '00 Chrysler Seabring that my mother handed down to me my junior year of high school, drove it from 2007-2012. The first thing below came with the car, the others happened around '11/'12 (not in order)

• It came with a bad serpentine belt so the thing would shut down at random intersections or in slow traffic and be hell to start back up
• The driver's side window came offtrack so if I had it all the way up the top would actually hit the top of the chassis
• The wind yanked the same door open hard one day and snapped the door stop (the thing that keeps the door from opening too much) and would prevent the door from closing unless it was moved
• I...kind of drove it through a flood in mid-2012 where it started steaming at the top of a hill after the flood. Still worked, though I drove it through water practically up to the bottom of the doors
• It had a sputtering issue that might've come from the above, not sure
• The CD player shit the bed one day and would be really uncooperative when inserting/ejecting CDs, often requiring like 30 attempts. At that point I gave up on it once I got what was in it out and just used the radio

It was eventually sold to a cousin for $500 in 2012 when I bought my mother's '07 Jetta (the car she bought when I was in high school) for $4,000. He totaled the Seabring but he's doing much better nowadays. Actually just traded the Jetta in back at the start of May for the '23 Camry I drive now.

1984 Renault Alliance 4-speed. No AC. No FM radio. Literally the bare minimum to be road-worthy

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/5/7/AAfcteAAEziJ.jpg

1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee when I was 15.

Piece of shit that broke down multiple times, but I miss that car. First real taste of freedom as a kid.

DoubleOSnake posted...

parents get you? i mean were most of you driving your parents' car or a real old one? did any of you here, your parents bought you a new one? mostly directed at you americans here, as maybe in most other countries it wouldn't be legal yet

I appreciate my parents providing a roof over my head, food to eat, and clothes on my back. But lmao on them ever thinking about buying me or my siblings a car.

I didn't get a car until I was 22, and I bought my own car.

76 chevy malibu

I started driving at 15, iirc.

First car I drove was a 95 Chevrolet Corsica but it wasn't mine, outright.

First car I ever owned as my own was a 08 Chevy HHR LS. That I bought.

DoubleOSnake posted...

parents get you? i mean were most of you driving your parents' car or a real old one? did any of you here, your parents bought you a new one? mostly directed at you americans here, as maybe in most other countries it wouldn't be legal yet

None. And most people don't experience this ever.

A 1988 Pontiac Grand Am, which was just a year old when I got it.

But it had 100,000 miles on it, because a dentist would commute between West Palm Beach and Miami every day.

I got it for $1,000. I paid half and my mother paid the other half.

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It's when I learned how bad GM cars were... as it was designed with undersized brakes for it's weight.

DoubleOSnake posted...

i remember that cash for clunkers. I did that program as well. Looking back do you think that was a good program?

It irreparably fucked up the used car market.

Unknown5uspect posted...

It irreparably fucked up the used car market.

yeah i have heard many people say this as well. It happened under obama? and he ok'd it? dont' remember. But many said it was a bad idea.

Nirvanas_Nox posted...

None. And most people don't experience this ever.

I think basically all my friends at school did. I was the only one that didnt.

Glob posted...

I think basically all my friends at school did. I was the only one that didnt.

what, most of your friends did get cars?