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First Car (Driven) 1976 Toyota Corolla Station Wagon

Pro: Good With Gas

Con: No Radio/AC/Defroster...

First Car (Owned) 1986 Buick Century

Pro Nice 2.8 v6

Good Sound System

Con: Brakes Blew

Front Steering Rack was barely working (towards the end)

Radio Only -- No Tape

  • 4 weeks later...

1995 Nissan Maxima - Gave me trouble about every 2 to 5 months. I had it for about 5 years got it when it had 50k miles on it. The dealer gave me more than I thought they would, still amazed lol.

2007 Ford Mustang - Just bought it on Tuesday, its amazing, I love it to pieces.

My first car was a 1996 Ford Fairmont. Big hulking tank of a thing that cost me more in petrol than the repayments on the loan.

Had auto everything in it, was a decent car to drive, just cost me too much in fuel.

Big Aussie Ford! 4 Litre inline 6 cylinder engine.

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1st Car = 1972 Datsu 510 4-door

The rest - in chronological order:

1978 Ford Fiesta (US)

1977 Triumph TR-7 (my 2nd favorite car)

1976 Honda Civic CVCC Hatchback

1980 Toyota Tercel 4-door

1986 Toyota Celica GT (not the GT-S)

1986 Isuzu Impulse (my favorite car)

1991 Honda Civic Hatchback

1991 Honda Accord LX 4-door

1996 Nissan Quest mini-van

It's amazing for me to just remember these cars when I had them- the only ones I have now are the '91 Civic and the '96 Quest.

--ScottKin

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  • 4 weeks later...

First driven, 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid (Mom)

Pro: Awesome gas mileage

Con: Power uphill is non-existant

Second Driven, 2004 Honda CR-V (Dad)

Pro: Good power when you wanted it

Con: Hardly drove it

First owned, 1992 Honda Accord LX (Mine) :)

Pro: Great service records, drives really well

Con: No CD player

  • 4 weeks later...

Heres mine

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Pros

low fuel consumption

easy to keep clean

other people suffer more when they bump into you

Cons

can be tough to start some mornings

Uphills

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On a more serious note, first car i drove was a Jaguar XJ6 Mark II, with a leather roof, 4.2l straight 6 and first time i drove it was reversing up a hill and round a corner, all at the same time. was some experience for my first time ever in a car.... it didn't go well :p

First car i was given was an old ford fiesta barely worth a mention, though all credit to it, it got me from A to B and only ever had problems when breaking hard going round a long right hand bend, seemed to starve the engine of fuel and it would cut out :)

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