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Kia Pride. First generation. Falling apart, basically a soda can with wheels. Clutch so atrocious that I basically had to relearn how to drive during those fifteen minutes. Allegedly someone I knew got one that didn’t even have a gas pedal, just a relatively high idle.
Thanks! Plenty of people questioned my choice - I questioned my choice 😂 - even as I was dropping hundreds on getting the dual controls installed.
But honestly, it has been such a perfect choice ❤️ thankfully the gearbox fucked up IN warranty! But apart from that one got no complaints. The learners love it as well!
Plenty of horsepower gives them confidence on the motorways 😎 and the power delivery is so smooth ❤️ it is literally just a Golf with a sporty body
Aside from all the jokes I got about being a 16 year old boy driving a pink car, I actually mostly loved that tracker... soft top was my biggest bitch in the winter months it was impossible to get it warm.
Mine has the opposite problem, it's impossible to keep cool in the summer! Suzuki probably wasn't installing top of the line AC units in the 90s and 26 years and 240000 miles later it's probably a bit worn out.
I had to sit in an empty seat between two strangers on a New York City E train. It went fine because I remembered to take my backpack off beforehand and put it in my lap.
Oldsmobile Delta 88. I learned to drive in the largest car the driving school had. The thinking was if I could maneuver that beast everything else should be easy. I guess it worked?
I was going to take it in a 1987 Toyota Camry, manual transmission, but the clutch burned up (not my fault... Maybe), and my parents didn't want to get it fixed. I took the test in the driving school's only manual transmission car, which was... A gray sedan, with a second brake pedal for the passenger.
'96 Saturn Wagon in red. Mom bought it after a car accident left her unable to drive a manual transmission for a year when I was a freshman. She made me learn to drive in it, then as soon as I passed my test she brought herself a brand new Honda CRV with manual transmission and gave me the Saturn. I drove it until I finished graduate school in 06, I gave the Saturn back and she gave me $15k to buy a new car of my choice as a graduation present. My new husband and I chose a Ford Focus wagon, manual transmission, which we drove happily until it's final demise in 2023. Mom sold the Saturn to a friend in the next state of over for a few grand but she drove the poor thing into a flooded road and killed it less than a year later.
My mother's car, a 1981 or so Dodge Aries K-car. I guess those who went to a driving school got their license from there as well? Back then we just got a short course in high school, drove a few times with the instructor, and then had to go to the DMV with our own car to do the actual test.
It took two times. The first time I had trouble starting the car (because it was a Dodge/Chrysler POS) so that instructor denied me after the third try at cranking it. Of course it rattled 17 year old me. Second time (different place, different instructor) went a lot smoother, only issue was my slamming on brakes for a red light, but that probably helped me rather than running it.
1998 Ford Escape. Pretty reliable car as long as we kept driving it. My mom sold it to a friend for $500 in 2020. He went on vacation for a week and it died 😆
Manual transmission, 1982 SAAB 900. It was canary yellow in 1981 when it was made. It was what I called dog puke yellow by the time I learned to drive in '95-'96.
A Buick Roadmaster Estate Master...thing cornered like an ocean liner... floor it and like in fifteen minutes we'd be doing 60 mph. Every ten minutes we'd have to get out and pledge the sides... because of the 'wooden' sides.
it was dangerously slow. And I failed my first test because of it. I was supposed to merge in front of a truck, but i simply couldn't get up to speed in the space i had. The exam lady refused to believe me that it couldn't.
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I just use nonsense answers or answers that make absolutely no sense to anyone else. (Inside jokes and the like)
Car
I know nothing about cars
Mine was definitely a car too
Toyota Corolla
My dad's car. The family car. Decent car.
Same
PIece of shit
Kia Pride. First generation. Falling apart, basically a soda can with wheels. Clutch so atrocious that I basically had to relearn how to drive during those fifteen minutes. Allegedly someone I knew got one that didn’t even have a gas pedal, just a relatively high idle.
Only the finest public property here in Lebanon.
F.A.P. 1314 truck 6 years older than me.
Cruising around with the boys in that thing
[Redacted security question answer]
Your mom
I passed in 2007 with a VW Polo ❤️
At the moment, my learners are passing in a 2015 VW Scirocco 😎
Scirocco looking kinda fly ngl
Thanks! Plenty of people questioned my choice - I questioned my choice 😂 - even as I was dropping hundreds on getting the dual controls installed.
But honestly, it has been such a perfect choice ❤️ thankfully the gearbox fucked up IN warranty! But apart from that one got no complaints. The learners love it as well!
Plenty of horsepower gives them confidence on the motorways 😎 and the power delivery is so smooth ❤️ it is literally just a Golf with a sporty body
Fairly easy. VW Golf. Almost all Driving School cars here are some sort of VW Group Cars (VW, Audi, Skoda)
Slightly different VW Gol
Some Audi, it was quite nice and new and the instructor would pet it and whisper to it every time I stalled the engine during lessons.
Yep it was a Ford Datamine
2011 VW Golf R
Took my test in 1997 in a 1994 magenta geo tracker with a stick shift.
I daily a newer version of this car from 1999, also with a stick shift but no 4wd.
Aside from all the jokes I got about being a 16 year old boy driving a pink car, I actually mostly loved that tracker... soft top was my biggest bitch in the winter months it was impossible to get it warm.
Mine has the opposite problem, it's impossible to keep cool in the summer! Suzuki probably wasn't installing top of the line AC units in the 90s and 26 years and 240000 miles later it's probably a bit worn out.
But they are super fun to drive!
Replace the compressor and recharge it. Should only cost $150-$250 if you do it yourself. You'll appreciate your new arctic blast.
93 Toyota Camry, manual transmission.
Same here! What are the odds?
What color was yours?
That beautiful early 90s maroon! What about yours?
Dark blue!
2009 FIAT Punto
Volkswagen Golf 3.
Volkswagen golf 1.6 tdi
That's a sexy ride!
Was a fun one to drive
Audi A3 First Gen
Yugo 45
Very much like this one
chevy caprice classic
My grandfathers Cadillac.
My instructor had a brand new BMW SUV but I took the final test in my dad's 1997 Subaru Impreza.
Brazilian '97 Chevrolet S10 very similar to this one:
Imaginary. I've never taken a driver's test or had a driver's license.
I am, however, fully instrument-rated on my local urban mass transit.
Which mass transit vehicle did you pass your test in? How did parallel parking go?
I had to sit in an empty seat between two strangers on a New York City E train. It went fine because I remembered to take my backpack off beforehand and put it in my lap.
An old af Peugeot P4!
A Ford Focus
Oldsmobile Delta 88. I learned to drive in the largest car the driving school had. The thinking was if I could maneuver that beast everything else should be easy. I guess it worked?
That's a beauty
bicycle I think
Mom's green 94 Ford Taurus. But I learned to drive in Dad's 89 rust brown Honda Civic hatchback with a manual transmission.
1981 Ford LTD station wagon in 1990
I was going to take it in a 1987 Toyota Camry, manual transmission, but the clutch burned up (not my fault... Maybe), and my parents didn't want to get it fixed. I took the test in the driving school's only manual transmission car, which was... A gray sedan, with a second brake pedal for the passenger.
Daewoo Nexia
I had a Daewoo VCR.
The 90's were wild, lol
Greetings fellow kid
Good news! It was a Dacia Sandero!
Sedan
1985 Volvo 240 station wagon. Puke colored.
A Ford Fiesta, if I remember rightly.
Fun fact, my grandfather never took a driving test since he got his license back in the days when all you needed to do was hand over five shillings.
Beater
BMW 118i. Shittiest turn signals I have ever used. Come to think about it, maybe that is the reason BMW drivers avoid using them.
VW Golf
1989 Mercury Sable. White exterior, red interior. Took me 3 tries before I passed.
VW Golf, silver colour.
1969 Mustang
It was a pretty new Audi Q5 from the drivers school. This was in 2016
Kia Amanti
'96 Saturn Wagon in red. Mom bought it after a car accident left her unable to drive a manual transmission for a year when I was a freshman. She made me learn to drive in it, then as soon as I passed my test she brought herself a brand new Honda CRV with manual transmission and gave me the Saturn. I drove it until I finished graduate school in 06, I gave the Saturn back and she gave me $15k to buy a new car of my choice as a graduation present. My new husband and I chose a Ford Focus wagon, manual transmission, which we drove happily until it's final demise in 2023. Mom sold the Saturn to a friend in the next state of over for a few grand but she drove the poor thing into a flooded road and killed it less than a year later.
I used to have a little Saturn stick shift. It was the best car I ever had. Hated to see them go out of business.
I think it was a 2010 Camaro
My mother's car, a 1981 or so Dodge Aries K-car. I guess those who went to a driving school got their license from there as well? Back then we just got a short course in high school, drove a few times with the instructor, and then had to go to the DMV with our own car to do the actual test.
It took two times. The first time I had trouble starting the car (because it was a Dodge/Chrysler POS) so that instructor denied me after the third try at cranking it. Of course it rattled 17 year old me. Second time (different place, different instructor) went a lot smoother, only issue was my slamming on brakes for a red light, but that probably helped me rather than running it.
Shitheap.
Mark 2 Volkswagen Polo.
Like most Brits, a Vauxhall (Opel) Corsa.
Toyota Yaris
Jeep Grand Cherokee, 1998 model I think
1998 Ford Escape. Pretty reliable car as long as we kept driving it. My mom sold it to a friend for $500 in 2020. He went on vacation for a week and it died 😆
1993 Dodge Caravan
2001 Pontiac Grand Prix I'll never forget, hell of a car
2001 Yaris TS 1.5
Manual transmission, 1982 SAAB 900. It was canary yellow in 1981 when it was made. It was what I called dog puke yellow by the time I learned to drive in '95-'96.
AKA a sturdy shitbox
AMC Hornet. '70-ish
The car i'm failed my drivers test was a Ford Ranger.
2017 Dacia Sandero.
Plymouth Duster
A Buick Roadmaster Estate Master...thing cornered like an ocean liner... floor it and like in fifteen minutes we'd be doing 60 mph. Every ten minutes we'd have to get out and pledge the sides... because of the 'wooden' sides.
Daihatsu Sirion, the 2005 model
VW Passat (2005 I think)
'99 Renault Megane scenic 1.9D (manual)
it was dangerously slow. And I failed my first test because of it. I was supposed to merge in front of a truck, but i simply couldn't get up to speed in the space i had. The exam lady refused to believe me that it couldn't.
2011-ish Mazda 3
What else would you like to know?
Mother's maiden name? First pet's name?