First car

[WayneKerr]

A friend's dad is trying to sell me his 2005 Porsche Cayman S for a price that is sort of too good to turn down...

If you can afford the insurance, tax, and running costs, go for it. If you can't then steer clear - money pit!

 

[Revolutions]

If you can afford the insurance, tax, and running costs, go for it. If you can't then steer clear - money pit!

Haha, good point. It's been over 10 years since I've owned a car- it's not just a case of buying it & paying for a year's insurance...!

 

[plastic penguin]

One of my favourite cars was a white 1979 Lancia Beta HPE 2000. I loved that car. It handled great. I used to race a guy with the Coupe version from Dunmow to Thaxted in Essex, but the longer wheelbase of the HPE seemed to give me the edge. Or I was crazier than him.
Someone pulled out of a cross roads on my way to work in South Woodham Ferrer's and wrote it off. Then the bloke punched me in the face as I was swearing at him.
Ooh agh. Them were the days🤣🤣🤣

I'm a huge Lancia fan. Never owned but have driven a couple. The Beta Coupe and Fulvia Sport are my two favs. Sadly let down by rubbish Russian steel, same with most Italian cars of that era.

 

[Gray]

....Then the bloke punched me in the face as I was swearing at him.

😆

 

[GroeneLeeuw]

9 year old BMW 315 (E21), 4 speed gearbox in red.
Gave me problems, wasn´t a happy chap owning it.
Kept it for 3 years, trade it in for a Fiat Uno 75 that run on GPL, run fantastically and was fast (top speed was around 185 km/h!). Except for the fit and finish, liked the Fiat much better than the BMW, never owned a BMW ever again.

 

[JDL]

I had one BMW and one was enough.

 

[JDL]

A friend's dad is trying to sell me his 2005 Porsche Cayman S for a price that is sort of too good to turn down...

Go on then......😀

 

[Revolutions]

Go on then......😀

ULEZ has destroyed my fun, so crack on. It can be had for less than £10k. But it's in Plymouth currently.

 

[Friesiansam]

No, I paid a couple of grand for it about 2 years ago. I've never had a new car and probably never will, unless I win one. But since I don't enter competitions, do the lottery or steal motors, it looks like no new car for me.😂

Same for me.

Me too, let someone else cover most of the depreciation.

 

[JDL]

Me too, let someone else cover most of the depreciation.

Quite true and a sensible statagy. Even if I could afford a new car, I would find a low mileage current car. We all know that just driving a brand new car out of the dealer's place and ten miles has knocked several hundred quid off its value.
You'd have to hope though that the first owner hadn't got rid of it because it's "Friday" car.

 

[JDL]

ULEZ has destroyed my fun, so crack on. It can be had for less than £10k. But it's in Plymouth currently.

ULEZ, is a real pain in the backside for an awful lot of people. Personally, I think it's outrageous tyranny.
I believe there's a candidate in the running for Mayor, who says he'll scrap it if he can get elected.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

We all know that just driving a brand new car out of the dealer's place and ten miles has knocked several hundred quid off its value.

I suspect that's a bit on the optimistic side!

Following post is straying into politics I'm afraid, so let's stick with the original subject as per forum rules. Thanks.

 

[Stuart83]

Some nice cars mentioned but I'm not one of them who had that experience in a first car.
I'm almost ashamed to mention it but as you dont know me by sight thus can't laugh and point at me in public.......
My first car was a 85' nissan sunny 1.6auto in beige more like the colour of runny sh?t.
It had all the toys of that yr like electric rear windows etc but "oh my" if you hit a bump with vigour a piece of one arch or even all would be left behind.
Once up to the higher end of the dial if left it would boil it's own coolant that said none of that was the problem it was its lack of anything entertaining about any of it.
Hands down the most boring car I've ever driven.
Jeremy Clarkson etc voted it as such yrs after I'd got rid and I remember nodding my head in agreement.
Every car usually has a few things that are a plus but not with this thing, put it this way I preferred the Austin maestro afterwards to it.
I do not drive now but had many scrappers even a Talbot samba with rear swimming pool before getting my favourite waft along Volvo t5 before health ment getting rid to my father.
I'm only 40 but first car ownership has gone from DIY repairs in the snow whilst belting ones knuckles with a hammer etc to lazy kids without even the rudemantery knowledge of how to fit a spare wheel just getting whatever their friends have on finance.
The mere thought of going to a scrap yard in the rain for spares to them would probably invoke a childlike tantrum

 

[jjbomber]

I buy a new car every 10 years. Depreciation isn't that much over 10 years.

 

[WayneKerr]

I buy a new car every 10 years. Depreciation isn't that much over 10 years.

Depends on how much the initial purchase price is.

 

[WayneKerr]

Not sure if this has been posted before but here goes

I'll kick-off with mine: 1966 Hillman Super Minx bought for £60 in 1975, (I think that equated to about 6 weeks wages for me in '75).

That Hillman had a couple of quirks to it - handbrake was on the RHS of the drivers seat and a foot-operated headlight main/dipped beam switch. Also owned a Mini where the the engine starter button was on the floor

 

[Jasonovich]

I remember getting into JDM cars a while back and really falling for the Nissan Silvia.

I remember fondly my Sports car reared drive Nissan SX200.
The most fun driving I recall but in snow covered slippery roads, it was crazy insane, the reared wheeler not really cut out for British weather.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Nissan SX200.

Wasn't it a 200SX?

 

[Jasonovich]

Wasn't it a 200SX?

Yes! My friend who's dyslexic, sneezed all over me, I think I have it now

 

[michael hoy]

My first car was a Triumph Spitfire. Bought it before i past my test and had some great times in it.