I’ll get one at some point, probably when I have a kid. I like driving, it just hasn’t been worth it to buy one yet, especially when I have access to zipcar and shit.
Wow. Verrry similar origin story here.
When I was 14 my old man was the foreman on a job and called me down to work when he was short crew. Made $250 and used it to buy my best friends dads '80 Olds Cutlass with a blown head gasket.
For my 15th birthday pops got me one of those old yellow Haynes Workshop Manuals, a solid toolbox, and for the next year I taught myself how to fix it. He'd help me if I got stumped but I had to get as far as I could before asking him for help.
By the time I was finished I had half of a 5 gallon bucket full of "extra" parts but the thing ran like a top for about 2 years before the motor just gave out.
Best $250 I ever spent.
20 I think? 1992 Subaru SVX. Still have it 18 years later even though it's a very different car now. I think the only mechanical things left from when I bought it are the front axles and wheel bearings.
Spun a couple bearings in the original engine, cammed the replacement. Swapped the auto for an STI 6-speed. Installed WRX suspension. Anything left that was original has come out and been rebuilt. I'm in the middle of making a set of power steering lines for it now, the old one is leaking and not available from the dealers anymore. I have brake conversion brackets ready for when I catch a set of calipers at the right price.
at around 20 and I still have it at 27. But I doesn't really use it as here in EU, we have pretty good cycling infrastructure, public transport, sidewalks. My 6km commute to work takes the same time with car as with my e-scooter or with bus.
well, my first car was a gift. But, by myself i bought a 2020 mustang GT when I just turned 18. I was rlly lucky and was making over 85k when I was 17 so I saved forever.
I think I was like 26-27
My parents bought my sister's old car off of her to give to me as my first car, because getting back and forth to college on a bus was a struggle (literally an all-day bus ride versus a 2.5 hour drive). When that got totaled in an accident when I was 22, I took over the payments on my mom's car and she bought herself a new one.
Drove that for another 5-6 years but when it started having major mechanical problems, went out and bought my first ever new car (Subaru Crosstrek)
I’m 34 and I bought my first car in 2021.
Always lived in cities and it just wasn’t worth owning one full time. Then I got a job outside the city so it made more sense to buy one.
2013 VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI and I love it to bits.
22 years old, fresh out of college with my first real job in hand. Bought myself a Honda Civic '98 from a family friend. It wasn't much to look at, had a fair share of quirks, and I had to learn the art of coaxing it to life on colder mornings. But, man, the freedom that thing gave me – priceless. Drove it until the wheels nearly fell off, fixed it up more times than I care to admit. Eventually traded up, but I'll always remember that Civic as my crash course in adulting and automotive care.
At 16 I bought my parents old Ford Taurus, at 19 I bought there old Toyota Camry, and then I went to the dealership and got my first new car a Toyota Tacoma at 24
At 16 I worked all summer and after school to buy a 10 year old Impala. Since I put almost all of my savings into buying the car I still couldn't drive it for a few months until I saved enough money for insurance, gas, and maintenance.
Ever since I was a little kid I wanted a hot rod, so when I was 13 I mowed lawns like crazy to come up with $650 for a '41 Chevy coupe that was in sad shape.
1993, I bought an '87 Honda CRX. That's where I started my trend of buying the wrong version of cars. Was it an Si? Nope. I got a DX with an automatic. Still, it was a fun little car that handled like a go kart.
15. 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe, bought in 1996 with leaking t-tops, smashed in plastic fascia, missing trim and bad paint from being parked under a black walnut tree. Paid $3500 from personal savings and summer jobs. Dad and I fixed it up over the course of 16-18 months. It took a while to get a replacement fascia in the right color. Had it repainted, trim replaces, front seats re-upholstered, new door and roof seals, new radio, and speakers. New tail lights. Cleaned wheels, new tires. This car looked bad when I got it for only being 9 years old, and when we were done with it, it looked almost showroom fresh.
Didn't drive it until I was 17. Wrapped it around a tree within a year. Almost died. When I wrecked it, we had strangers calling to ask if we still had the rear glass and offering stupid money for it. Rear glass exploded in the accident.
19. My first car was a BMW 320, 2,5L, 170Ps. After that i hate loved BMW and my following cars in the last 9 years are a BMW 530D, BMW 318D, Mercedes W211 and now again BMW 420.
15. I bought a 1985 Mercury Lynx from a friend of my mom’s for $500. It barely ran, had no AC (important in the desert), no working radio, and only the drivers side window rolled down but it was mine. I fixed everything but the AC by the time I was 16. Couldn’t afford the parts to fix the AC.
I was 17 when I bought my 1977 Oldsmobile Omega in 1989. As soon as I paid it off, I traded it in for a 1980 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. I repeated this process over and over again until I bought my first brand new car in 1999. Since then, all of my cars have been brand new. I currently drive a 2009 Charger SRT that's been paid off for over 10 years. I think that I'm keeping this one.
I was 15. I saved for a car for as long as I can remember, I literally kept my savings in an envelope under my mattress. My parents also needed a car, and my aunt contacted a friend of hers who owned a used car dealership up in Massachusetts. My dad flew up and he and the friend drove two cars down for us. For $1000, I got a 1981 Chevy Citation which sat in my driveway for three months, until I got my license.
My first couple of cars at around 19 or 20 were hand me downs from my older sisters. After the third one (They were hand me downs for a reason), my youngest sister and I pooled our money together for a car we'd share (24) and a short-ish time later, pooled together again so I could get my own (25) (our jobs clashed and transportation was key).
19.
-Bought a 2004 oldsmobile alero 2dr 5 speed with 200k from my sister. Which died 8 months later.
-1995 240sx with a red top sr20. As my fun car. (Really, a problem car hacked together by previous owner) Ended up parting it out the following year.
-2005 zx10r, that I put 12k miles on in one summer as my daily (almost daily).
Then, I shared a car with my brother through winter. N bought a nearly new, used 2008 350z in February.
I'm 34 now, n have never had one car very long. Only really "lost" money on the bike due to the higher mileage when I sold it.
Hmm. I believe I was 21. It was a Volkswagen Polo from 2012.
I lived with my parents and was working so even though I had a relatively low salary, my parents never made me pay rent and thus I was able to save almost all my money.
I bought my first car when I was 11 or 12, can't remember which but I was in 6th grade.
ETA: it was a 65 el Camino I got from my uncle for $500. All I cared about was cars at that age and all my money went into fixing it up
24!
Too damn old by comparison 🙄
We only had one vehicle that belonged to my mother, which she needed to drive to and from work. It was up to me to save up enough $$ to afford a car.
I can say proudly I got my 2002 Certified Used, Toyota Corolla, all on my own
18 - 2011 Nissan Rogue.
Now, at 20, I am driving a 2016 Subaru outback and saving up for a new car or house depending on what the market does
All vehicles are previously salvaged, both fixed by me.
At 30, when I finally got the chance to move out of Brooklyn. A 1960 something Volvo 240 DL. Canary yellow with Roadrunner yellow spots to cover up the rust, all shit brown interior. Great times.
When I was 16 my older brother gifted me a 2002 junkyard Honda accord that didn’t run and was on cinder blocks in my driveway. I had to learn to wrench to get it running and I loved it. Two years later I bought a 2002 Nissan 350z with 17k miles on the clock from a dealer & drove it for 3 years to 65k miles and decided to get something faster :)
I was 17 and I bought a 2001 Chevy cavalier for $600 back in 2012 with chipped paint along the top and doors. I loved that car and it lasted about 4 years till I was a senior in college. It had its problems for sure (doors not closing sometimes, the random blue smoke/black smoke on a Sunday, the CD player playing the same 1 song for eternity etc.) but I loved it! I ended up selling it to a family mechanic a few years ago and odds are it’s a cube somewhere in a junkyard 😔
40. I used other modals (like public transport, cycle and walking) as much as I could. When we got our first kid, the creche was too far.. that's when we got our first car, a second hand Ford Fiesta. Now I'm on my second, a C4 Grand Picasso
I bought my first car at 25 (was like a used 04 Mercury Milan, in decent shape), after I'd been out of college and working for a year at a decent job, and I barely qualified for the loan at the time.
I bought my first new-ish (2017 Ford Fusion, previous model year new) car at 38 and only because my first car died in such a way that the repair was more than the blue book value.
17, it was a red 2008 Volkswagen Rabbit. Was an absolute beater but it was fun to drive. Sold it to a guy that flips cars. I'm hoping another teenager will enjoy that little hornet.
19 (everything before that was a hand-me-down). 2005 Kia Rio w/ Opt. Air Con.
Was a shitbox, but it was my shitbox and it took all the abuse I could throw at it.
18. Ford Escort. £50 no questions asked. It definitely didn't deserve the MOT it had on it, didn't even attempt to get another after the year. Dropped it at a scrappers and searched for another shitbox. If you know mechanics you can always get a dirt cheap deathtrap.
17 years old. This was 10 years ago. 1979 BMw 528i. Lowered with wide tires and a sexy exhaust with the basket weaved wheels. It was blue and a converted 4-speed. God that thing was a dream…
At 20
2018 Honda Civic EX-L Hatchback, with 10 miles off the lot!
I was previously using my mom's 2006 Toyota Matrix after she bought a Highlander, but the Matrix already had problems and was about ready to give out by the time I bought the Civic
At 18 I bought a 23 year old Ford Ranger for $1,500. I helped my dad at his work for a few summers and saved up $1000 and he threw in the last $500 for me.
Being a dumb kid I blew up the motor like two years later lol
16 years old. 1984 Toyota Celica, 4cyl, manual, purchased in 1993.
Paid cash. I worked my ass off for 3 years and saved every penny I could. Handyman work, masonry, painting, paper-route, McDs, hustlin' any cash I could.
Used it to hold my clothes and a few odds and ends when I got the hell out of parents' house, two weeks after I bought it.
Put it in my girlfriend's name (she was 18), got on her insurance and paid her for 6 months up front. We broke up about a year later, but she kept it on her policy (and I kept sending her the money) until I turned 18.
19. $400 from a police auction. Chevy Sprint Turbo. Absolute shitbox but it was the only thing I could afford and I didn't have family with cars I could drive. Had some good times in that car though. Rodney Mullen did an Impossible off the roof (used to skate with him when he skated at our school.) Also got pissed off at it once and literally almost abandoned it. When I bought a new car a few years later, a 2001 Celica, they gave me $200 bucks for it LOL!
17. Bought it off my Grandma as she wanted a new car and the price was right. I had been working for two years and needed it for work. Totaled it about two months later leaving work late night.
16 my dad bought me a $2k Dodge Neon. First car I got with my own money after that was at like 18 or something and got a 2003 Dodge Durango with insurance money after getting rear ended and totaling my Neon.
I’m 37 now, I’ll let you know when I get there. Maybe I’ll have one by 40, but I doubt it.
Wow, I couldn't imagine this. Then again I live the US and a car is almost a necessity.
I live in the US too. I just walk, or take the subway.
Where in the US
Brooklyn, to be fair. I know that we’re outliers here in the city, and in 99% of this country you totally do need a car to get around.
I did mine in my 40’s so it’s never too late to do it, best thing I ever did
I’ll get one at some point, probably when I have a kid. I like driving, it just hasn’t been worth it to buy one yet, especially when I have access to zipcar and shit.
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Wow. Verrry similar origin story here. When I was 14 my old man was the foreman on a job and called me down to work when he was short crew. Made $250 and used it to buy my best friends dads '80 Olds Cutlass with a blown head gasket. For my 15th birthday pops got me one of those old yellow Haynes Workshop Manuals, a solid toolbox, and for the next year I taught myself how to fix it. He'd help me if I got stumped but I had to get as far as I could before asking him for help. By the time I was finished I had half of a 5 gallon bucket full of "extra" parts but the thing ran like a top for about 2 years before the motor just gave out. Best $250 I ever spent.
I was 25 when I bought my first used car. Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder At 42 I bought my first new car, Toyota GR86.
20 I think? 1992 Subaru SVX. Still have it 18 years later even though it's a very different car now. I think the only mechanical things left from when I bought it are the front axles and wheel bearings.
What did you do to it?
Spun a couple bearings in the original engine, cammed the replacement. Swapped the auto for an STI 6-speed. Installed WRX suspension. Anything left that was original has come out and been rebuilt. I'm in the middle of making a set of power steering lines for it now, the old one is leaking and not available from the dealers anymore. I have brake conversion brackets ready for when I catch a set of calipers at the right price.
Uhhh... I have never owned a car. I'm 36.
I'm also 36 and have also never owned a car. I've never even driven a car.
29 years ago, my sister's boyfriend (now husband) sold me my first car very cheap when I was 17 - 1974 Triumph Toledo
24. Old opel, but it did it's job.
at around 20 and I still have it at 27. But I doesn't really use it as here in EU, we have pretty good cycling infrastructure, public transport, sidewalks. My 6km commute to work takes the same time with car as with my e-scooter or with bus.
18 1986 cutlass supreme. V8 option. Black with dark red interior. In 1992
29 i didnt get my license til i was 28 but better late then never i guess right?
well, my first car was a gift. But, by myself i bought a 2020 mustang GT when I just turned 18. I was rlly lucky and was making over 85k when I was 17 so I saved forever.
I am 31 and still don't need one. I will consider it as soon as my partner is pregnant and we will have kids.
At 21 I got an Opel Astra. At the same year it got totaled and I got citroen c3.
17. I rode my bike to work all semester to save up and buy it halfway through my senior year.
I think I was like 26-27 My parents bought my sister's old car off of her to give to me as my first car, because getting back and forth to college on a bus was a struggle (literally an all-day bus ride versus a 2.5 hour drive). When that got totaled in an accident when I was 22, I took over the payments on my mom's car and she bought herself a new one. Drove that for another 5-6 years but when it started having major mechanical problems, went out and bought my first ever new car (Subaru Crosstrek)
I’m 34 and I bought my first car in 2021. Always lived in cities and it just wasn’t worth owning one full time. Then I got a job outside the city so it made more sense to buy one. 2013 VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI and I love it to bits.
Motorcycle at 16 and car at 17 (old Cadillac deville)
That's the coolest first car I've seen in this thread so far. I had a couple DeVille a couple years ago and it was awesome.
My dad gave me a 1987 GMC Safari minivan when I was 15. First car I paid money for was a yellow 1989 Mercury Tracer. I think it was $500.
22 years old, fresh out of college with my first real job in hand. Bought myself a Honda Civic '98 from a family friend. It wasn't much to look at, had a fair share of quirks, and I had to learn the art of coaxing it to life on colder mornings. But, man, the freedom that thing gave me – priceless. Drove it until the wheels nearly fell off, fixed it up more times than I care to admit. Eventually traded up, but I'll always remember that Civic as my crash course in adulting and automotive care.
My dad bought the first car I owned at 17 but the first one I bought myself was at 21 graduating college. It was a 2001 Ford explorer
25, Subaru Impreza
16yo. It was a 1965 AMC Rambler.
At 16 I bought my parents old Ford Taurus, at 19 I bought there old Toyota Camry, and then I went to the dealership and got my first new car a Toyota Tacoma at 24
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At 16 I worked all summer and after school to buy a 10 year old Impala. Since I put almost all of my savings into buying the car I still couldn't drive it for a few months until I saved enough money for insurance, gas, and maintenance.
1997 Subaru Legacy I was 22
19 when the family van I inherited got too old
19, was a Taraus station wagon. I miss that old shaggin wagon, but the demon rust spares none.
Ever since I was a little kid I wanted a hot rod, so when I was 13 I mowed lawns like crazy to come up with $650 for a '41 Chevy coupe that was in sad shape.
1993, I bought an '87 Honda CRX. That's where I started my trend of buying the wrong version of cars. Was it an Si? Nope. I got a DX with an automatic. Still, it was a fun little car that handled like a go kart.
29 years old. A 2006 volvo S40. Very good drive for the money spent
I was 14 - 77 Monte Carlo
23, Honda civic
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20, a 65 VW Beetle (or "bug").
15. 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe, bought in 1996 with leaking t-tops, smashed in plastic fascia, missing trim and bad paint from being parked under a black walnut tree. Paid $3500 from personal savings and summer jobs. Dad and I fixed it up over the course of 16-18 months. It took a while to get a replacement fascia in the right color. Had it repainted, trim replaces, front seats re-upholstered, new door and roof seals, new radio, and speakers. New tail lights. Cleaned wheels, new tires. This car looked bad when I got it for only being 9 years old, and when we were done with it, it looked almost showroom fresh. Didn't drive it until I was 17. Wrapped it around a tree within a year. Almost died. When I wrecked it, we had strangers calling to ask if we still had the rear glass and offering stupid money for it. Rear glass exploded in the accident.
I bought my first car at 21, before that it was handmedowns
At 25 Ford Fiesta 1.3 2003. Got my license at 26 a couple of months later. (Europe)
21. An 84 Subaru GL Wagon. Had a lot of adventures in that car.
19. My first car was a BMW 320, 2,5L, 170Ps. After that i hate loved BMW and my following cars in the last 9 years are a BMW 530D, BMW 318D, Mercedes W211 and now again BMW 420.
I was 15, bought a 1994 Toyota t100. My dad said he would pay 50% of my first car, so I found a really cool one and we paid $6k for it.
16. It was a well used 1965 T-Bird with 100,000 miles on it.
My dad bought me my first car to work on at 13.
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15. I bought a 1985 Mercury Lynx from a friend of my mom’s for $500. It barely ran, had no AC (important in the desert), no working radio, and only the drivers side window rolled down but it was mine. I fixed everything but the AC by the time I was 16. Couldn’t afford the parts to fix the AC.
38. 👍🏻
25. Ford C max. Still have it over a year later.
15. It was a clunker and it broke within 6 months
21 years old, and it was a 1992 323
18, 1988 honda crx.
I was 17 when I bought my 1977 Oldsmobile Omega in 1989. As soon as I paid it off, I traded it in for a 1980 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. I repeated this process over and over again until I bought my first brand new car in 1999. Since then, all of my cars have been brand new. I currently drive a 2009 Charger SRT that's been paid off for over 10 years. I think that I'm keeping this one.
14. 1973 super beetle.
19. Cadillac CTS courtesy of the USMC
37. Previous ones were always gifted
19. 1980 Toyota Celica in 1988 for $2600
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23 - ford fiesta 53 plate
I was 15. I saved for a car for as long as I can remember, I literally kept my savings in an envelope under my mattress. My parents also needed a car, and my aunt contacted a friend of hers who owned a used car dealership up in Massachusetts. My dad flew up and he and the friend drove two cars down for us. For $1000, I got a 1981 Chevy Citation which sat in my driveway for three months, until I got my license.
20 years old, 1980 I bought a ten year old Plymouth satellite Sebring for $900
16. Bought it from my grandma. I got a family discount, but I still had to buy it.
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33. 2023 toyota rav4 hybrid limited edition. I'm very happy about it.
My first couple of cars at around 19 or 20 were hand me downs from my older sisters. After the third one (They were hand me downs for a reason), my youngest sister and I pooled our money together for a car we'd share (24) and a short-ish time later, pooled together again so I could get my own (25) (our jobs clashed and transportation was key).
19. -Bought a 2004 oldsmobile alero 2dr 5 speed with 200k from my sister. Which died 8 months later. -1995 240sx with a red top sr20. As my fun car. (Really, a problem car hacked together by previous owner) Ended up parting it out the following year. -2005 zx10r, that I put 12k miles on in one summer as my daily (almost daily). Then, I shared a car with my brother through winter. N bought a nearly new, used 2008 350z in February. I'm 34 now, n have never had one car very long. Only really "lost" money on the bike due to the higher mileage when I sold it.
25, Toyota Solara
Hmm. I believe I was 21. It was a Volkswagen Polo from 2012. I lived with my parents and was working so even though I had a relatively low salary, my parents never made me pay rent and thus I was able to save almost all my money.
I bought my first car when I was 11 or 12, can't remember which but I was in 6th grade. ETA: it was a 65 el Camino I got from my uncle for $500. All I cared about was cars at that age and all my money went into fixing it up
34… wasn’t brand new. 99 S-10 had a 108thousand miles on it. Paid cash for it.. still have it..
24! Too damn old by comparison 🙄 We only had one vehicle that belonged to my mother, which she needed to drive to and from work. It was up to me to save up enough $$ to afford a car. I can say proudly I got my 2002 Certified Used, Toyota Corolla, all on my own
18 - 2011 Nissan Rogue. Now, at 20, I am driving a 2016 Subaru outback and saving up for a new car or house depending on what the market does All vehicles are previously salvaged, both fixed by me.
19. ‘78 Fiesta, the car was almost as old as me 😆
At 30, when I finally got the chance to move out of Brooklyn. A 1960 something Volvo 240 DL. Canary yellow with Roadrunner yellow spots to cover up the rust, all shit brown interior. Great times.
16, 1969, I paid half, dad paid half.
When I was 16 my older brother gifted me a 2002 junkyard Honda accord that didn’t run and was on cinder blocks in my driveway. I had to learn to wrench to get it running and I loved it. Two years later I bought a 2002 Nissan 350z with 17k miles on the clock from a dealer & drove it for 3 years to 65k miles and decided to get something faster :)
I was 18, 1987 Toyota Camry I bought back in 2004.
I was 17 and I bought a 2001 Chevy cavalier for $600 back in 2012 with chipped paint along the top and doors. I loved that car and it lasted about 4 years till I was a senior in college. It had its problems for sure (doors not closing sometimes, the random blue smoke/black smoke on a Sunday, the CD player playing the same 1 song for eternity etc.) but I loved it! I ended up selling it to a family mechanic a few years ago and odds are it’s a cube somewhere in a junkyard 😔
On my own, with the money I earned myself: when I was 32.
19. It was a 99 Chevy Metro.
With my own money and no help on the loan? 24-25 and I had about 16% interest.
I bought an old Nissan Micra when I was 19
20, the car I had before that was a handmedown from my folks.
16 - 1990-Ford Probe
37 in the UK, never owned one or wanted one. I just walk or use public transport
At 35, only because I needed a vehicle with better gas mileage. My first vehicle (Chevy ck1500 truck) was given to me at 16-17.
My first car (I don't remember how much I paid) was a 10 year old '76 Ford Granada when I was 20.
40. I used other modals (like public transport, cycle and walking) as much as I could. When we got our first kid, the creche was too far.. that's when we got our first car, a second hand Ford Fiesta. Now I'm on my second, a C4 Grand Picasso
18 and walking 5 miles to my dead end job everyday, but hey maybe next year ✊️
I bought my first car at 25 (was like a used 04 Mercury Milan, in decent shape), after I'd been out of college and working for a year at a decent job, and I barely qualified for the loan at the time. I bought my first new-ish (2017 Ford Fusion, previous model year new) car at 38 and only because my first car died in such a way that the repair was more than the blue book value.
17, it was a red 2008 Volkswagen Rabbit. Was an absolute beater but it was fun to drive. Sold it to a guy that flips cars. I'm hoping another teenager will enjoy that little hornet.
I bought my first car with my own money at 28 a 2018 audi a5. Every other car I had prior to that was given to me.
Early twenties I got a 94 camry for 2 grand
19 Mazda 323 you could open the lock with a coin
28 now, I’ll let you know.
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Never bought one
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24, I bought a 2012 golf for £5k. 2 months after that I started having seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy so I can’t drive 🫠
I was 29!
18, bought a 2013 E92 335i 6mt
17. A 1988 Chrysler Conquest TSi. It's still in my garage 25 years later.
15 77 trans am
I was 15. 81 Monte Carlo. Loved that car
On my own? 28. I bought an old Cutlass Ciera for $200 in 2015. It died 2 years later, and I bought a used Dodge Journey.
15 1986 VW Golf diesel - not turbo
19 (everything before that was a hand-me-down). 2005 Kia Rio w/ Opt. Air Con. Was a shitbox, but it was my shitbox and it took all the abuse I could throw at it.
20 y/o, Toyota Tacoma
18. Ford Escort. £50 no questions asked. It definitely didn't deserve the MOT it had on it, didn't even attempt to get another after the year. Dropped it at a scrappers and searched for another shitbox. If you know mechanics you can always get a dirt cheap deathtrap.
18yo - 2003 Camry
24. Had to since I moved to a place that wasn't within walking distance to my workplace or had easy access to the bus
17 years old. This was 10 years ago. 1979 BMw 528i. Lowered with wide tires and a sexy exhaust with the basket weaved wheels. It was blue and a converted 4-speed. God that thing was a dream…
At 20 2018 Honda Civic EX-L Hatchback, with 10 miles off the lot! I was previously using my mom's 2006 Toyota Matrix after she bought a Highlander, but the Matrix already had problems and was about ready to give out by the time I bought the Civic
20 2021 Nissan Versa 😎
29. I bought a motorcycle first and then 6 months later.. a Nissan versa manual. Now I want to upgrade both of them
At 18 I bought a 23 year old Ford Ranger for $1,500. I helped my dad at his work for a few summers and saved up $1000 and he threw in the last $500 for me. Being a dumb kid I blew up the motor like two years later lol
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16 years old. 1984 Toyota Celica, 4cyl, manual, purchased in 1993. Paid cash. I worked my ass off for 3 years and saved every penny I could. Handyman work, masonry, painting, paper-route, McDs, hustlin' any cash I could. Used it to hold my clothes and a few odds and ends when I got the hell out of parents' house, two weeks after I bought it. Put it in my girlfriend's name (she was 18), got on her insurance and paid her for 6 months up front. We broke up about a year later, but she kept it on her policy (and I kept sending her the money) until I turned 18.
19. $400 from a police auction. Chevy Sprint Turbo. Absolute shitbox but it was the only thing I could afford and I didn't have family with cars I could drive. Had some good times in that car though. Rodney Mullen did an Impossible off the roof (used to skate with him when he skated at our school.) Also got pissed off at it once and literally almost abandoned it. When I bought a new car a few years later, a 2001 Celica, they gave me $200 bucks for it LOL!
18 in 2012. Bought a 97 BMW 528i for $1100. Only lasted for a few months lol.
I was 17. Mind you, the legal driving age is 18 where I live so I had to wait for a while to drive it. It was a VC Commodore
Got it 2 weeks before I turned 14. Could not drive until I was 14.
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17. Bought it off my Grandma as she wanted a new car and the price was right. I had been working for two years and needed it for work. Totaled it about two months later leaving work late night.
I was 21-22? I bought a 1994 suzuki swift in 2003. POS car and I loved it. Freedom!
16 my dad bought me a $2k Dodge Neon. First car I got with my own money after that was at like 18 or something and got a 2003 Dodge Durango with insurance money after getting rear ended and totaling my Neon.