I recently turned 18, so my parents signed me up for driving school. When I showed up at the academy, I was surprised by the cars they had available for students to learn on. They told me to pick whichever I liked best, and I chose the Mercedes-Benz G500.
1982 AMC eagle wagon with woody side panels.
The car actually caught on fire while I was driving, and I was known as the person that smelled like burnt car in high school, because that burning rubber/plastic smell stayed in my books and materials for the entire school year.
The color of your first car is a fairly common backup question. Answering this in detail is not recommended.
Any other security questions you’d like people to expose? What about the street I grew up on driving that car? /s
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how does the car you first drove relate to security?
It’s often a security question for institutions like banks to reset your security parameters.
Driver’s Ed: 1986 Chevy Cavalier and it was a horrible brown color.
Parent’s Cars:
1986 Buick Skyhawk: Very crappy car. The gas pedal didn’t so much produce acceleration, but rather an eventual increase of the angular momentum of the tires.
1970 Chevy Impala: Loved this car. Huge and had a 400cid small block with a 400 Turbo Hydromatic with a 12 bolt posi rear end. It’s the car that really taught me how to drive. It eventually ran 13’s in the quarter mile.
Learned how to drive manual: 1983 (I think) Ford Escort
REALLY learned how to drive a manual: 1949 Willys Overland. A friend’s Dad’s car. Why did it REALLY teach me how to drive a manual? Easy, it had a non-syncrho’d transmission, much like the big rigs have. This car taught me rev-matching, double clutching, and an appreciation about how cars really work. It also had a column shifter. Once I learned how to handle the transmission, it was a lot of fun to drive. It made me a much better driver.
The car that taught me how to race (there were two):
1985 Toyota MR-2: Was a friend’s car that I Autocrossed (Pro Solo) along with him. He actually made it to Nationals with this car several times. Later he won Nationals with a Supra Turbo. This was in the mid-90’s.
1985 Corolla GT-S: This was my car. It was the AE86 platform with the same engine as the MR-2. Absolutely ferocious car. It didn’t handle as well as the MR-2, but it was soooo much fun. This car taught me “trail braking” and a lot of other performance driving skills. This remains my favorite car I’ve ever owned, even to this day. I’d love to find one and restore it.
My sister’s first car was an 86 cavalier. It was blue and had a manual transmission. She stalled the engine going over train tracks once and the train crossing lit up as she was trying to restart it. Panic ensued…
I guess it depends on the country, we have to provide our own cars in the US. I used my brothers small Toyota Corolla so i could do the 3 point turns and stuff easier in a smaller car. If you go too far up the curb or into the grass, you fail. Then after i got my license, i bought a HUGE cheap chevy impala. That thing was a boat, but drove so well.
A riding lawnmower. Good enough to get the basic hand eye coordination down, so when I drove a real car it wasn’t a big deal.
The first actual car I drove was a Toyota sienna.
Some early 2000s ford Mondeo diesel.
1991 Ford S10 pickup, on the farm, when I was 8 years old. I only crashed it on the farm once – in first gear, stopped. Took foot off clutch and lurched forward into the wall in front of me. In my defense, I hadn’t been instructed on how to turn it off yet ;)
The car my driving instructor use to teach me in was a VW Golf IV, the first car that I owned and had the opportunity to gather some driving experience in was a red VW Golf II, and the car that I used most to drift and test the limits was a VW Lupo I drove during my time in civil service.
So, depending on what you consider “learn to drive”, these are probably my answers. All brilliant cars, loved each and every one of them.
I don’t remember, I wasn’t very into cars at that moment… I just know it was a pretty common car brand among taxis in an economically backwards part of China, so most likely a budget Chinese or Korean brand. Also it was a stick shift
A Dodge Colt with a horrible manual transmission. Years later I bought a Veloster with manual transmission because shifting was so incredibly smooth compared to what I trained on, and I learned that manual can be pretty fun. I have an automatic now but often use the manual shifter to downshift when going down steep hills or sometimes just to use my brakes less when approaching a red light.
'84 Grand Marquis
If you can parallel park THAT, you can parallel park ANYTHING!
I learned to drive in a Honda Civic. I named it Princess after my first pet, and I listened to “The Smiths” during my driving lessons, in honor of my mother’s maiden name.
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My social security number is 5.
I have no idea besides that was a stick shift with 4 wheels. Is this something people normally care about?
I learnd to drive stick at the car dealer when I took the car for my first test drive. lol dude was NOT impressed but only found out as we were doing 40 in 3rd gear about 15 minutes from the dealership. only stalled once! lol
bought the car too… didn’t learn how to put it into reverse until the day I went to leave the dealership with my car. that was an experience lol
Early aughts Fiat Punto.
