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"Cars..."

How many of you guys drive?

What cars have you got? What cars did you start with? How do you find them?

I am just going to learn to drive and had wanted a mini since i was about 8! But i think it may be expensive for my first car. How many of you smashed up your first car?

When I passed my test I drove my parents car - Hyundai Sonata which was rather nippy for it's size as it had an automatic sports gearbox.
Had a rover 216 or something like that, decent enough to drive but plenty of problems with it.

Driving a new mini at the moment, great fun car to drive.
Would love the Focus ST, but they are just too pricey though. :0)

Twain wrote:
> Ask him if he'll sell you his Lotus with a staff discount. :D

Worth a try, although it would have to be a HUGE staff discount for me to afford it...say a 99% discount :) I had offered to drive it around town for him as it used to have advertising on it...but that idea wasn't gone for, much to my amazement and suprise :p :(

Vexxxed wrote:
> Tony here at work has bought the Ford ST *drools* which I belive he
> is selling soon...but think that's WAY out of my price range :'(

Ask him if he'll sell you his Lotus with a staff discount. :D

05 reg MG TF 135 is my current car, the other 2 I've had are an X plate Fiesta 1.3 basic model and a 53 reg Corsa SXI.

I've kind of got my realistic dream car for now so i think I'll keep it for a good few years yet.

Geffdof wrote:
> I'm still on my first car. Its a P-reg VW Polo 1.0L. Its
> surprisingly nippy for a small engined car. I've had it since I
> passed my test when I was 17 (I'm now 21). Once I've finished
> uni I will probably look at getting a new car.

Yeah my friend has recently bought a Polo it's the 1.6 version for his first proper car and he's really enjoying that at the moment. I also know someone else who has had one for about the same amount of time as you, and they have had no complaints with their Polo either.

Geffdof wrote:
>Im thinking a Focus or a Golf would be good.

Yeah, that's where I'm thinking of going next too. Some pretty good models around for some fairly decent prices and you can't really go wrong with a Golf or Ford as far as I can tell. Tony here at work has bought the Ford ST *drools* which I belive he is selling soon...but think that's WAY out of my price range :'(

I'm still on my first car. Its a P-reg VW Polo 1.0L. Its surprisingly nippy for a small engined car. I've had it since I passed my test when I was 17 (I'm now 21). Once I've finished uni I will probably look at getting a new car. Im thinking a Focus or a Golf would be good. Im hoping my cousin will get a new car and I can buy the old one off him. It's an Audi A4 1.9TDi that is about 5 years old. If he's selling that in a couple of years, I'll definitely buy it.

Yeah always the best way, make sure you're not buying something that will collapse the next day.

Sounds cool...might go take a look at the one up the road...my dads got a mechanic mate who can have a look to see if its in good shape or not :)

My first one E reg was my first car, piece of junk metal but it did me well until some a**e of a recovery chap wrote it off whilst trying to recover me after my alternator died... :/ My P reg was doing really well...until the crash...it was a 1.6 and was pretty fast for what it was, and it was really quite nice to drive, power steering and what not. I had no major problems with it and parts for them are cheap as there are so many around should you have any problems at all. Definitely worth giving one a go if its in good shape and within your price range.

Hmm yeah I miss my escort now :(

This but rounder and nicer colour.

Vexxxed wrote:
> Was driving a Ford Escort (had two now, E + P reg) but then
> crashed in December, bloomin icey roads :@ Now I got a free
> Rover 420 sli from ex boss!

How did you find the escort? Im guessing you liked it if you changed to a P reg one?