Favorite Car & First Car

I was just wondering, whats you favorite car, and what was your first car, share exsperiences and stuf, and future plans, and what not............(Now that i am getting close to getting a learners permit, i am more interested in the topic.....)

Vauxhall Astra. As it's a European car, I shall have to describe it for you North Americans.



I can't remember the mpg, it is somewhere around 40something.
Apparently, 151g/km of CO2 per kilometer.

I'm very pleased with it. It's not new, but recent enough to have power steering and nothing is in bad condition.

us that all you guys have are vauxhall's? Seems like it's the only European make that ever gets mentioned

Sure, here's a EUROPEAN car I like:



The Volkswagen Polo! It would be a nice first carm if it was in second hand!

my first car and current car is a '99 pontiac grand am.

its nothing special, there are llike 500 of em in town.

It cost around $2,000, but it has bad hail damage

Darkwing wrote:us that all you guys have are vauxhall's? Seems like it's the only European make that ever gets mentioned

Nope. I talk about them quite a lot, but you probably know of them because they're owned by GM.

Most of the major European car companies are either German or American-by-proxy

The only other diference is that they might know it by Opel...

And don't forget that the french and the italians have a pretty strong auto-market...

True for the French, but aren't all the makers of practical cars in Italy owned by German car companies?

I have alot of cars i WANT, but probibly wont get.

The Porche 911 Turbo


Or the

Lamborghini Murcielago


I kinda want an older Rolls Royce though, just so i can look good when going places i wouldent take a super car


BTW, whats up with British people wanting small, slow, and normal cars....i mean i know i used to want a Volkswagon beetle for my first car because it was cheep, but i mean really, it is big, and was semi fast......

The smaller, more efficient the car, the less you have to pay in tax and petrol.

~£1.20 per litre = ~£5 per gallon = ~$8 per gallon

If you have a gas-guzzling car, you could pay 5 times more in tax.

In america you only pay for what you call Petrol (Why do you call it that BTW, we call it gas)

and Inspection once a year, and thats it.

Evil Person wrote:In america you only pay for what you call Petrol (Why do you call it that BTW, we call it gas)

and Inspection once a year, and thats it.

Well... We here pay for the petrol (come from oil, which would sound something like petroleum, in latin (I guess), so we call it petrol, since gas for us is what people use in their hovens to prepare food in a tradicional way, and to warm up the water you take bath in), plus polution taxes, plus circulation taxes, plus w/e the government can remember taxes, plus highway fee's, etc, etc, etc...

EDIT: We also don't care if it has 360 horsepower or w/e! 4 wheels and an engine for European people is enough...

Terrible, there shouldent be taxes like that.

I'll tell you what my first car is in about 3 months

In a year, 7 Months, and 10 Days, i will tell you if i even get a learners permit.

No i havent been counting, i just looked up how long just now.

Ugghhh, Americans and gas. We should reopen the America topic in Pandora's Box.

It is a liquid. Not a gas. I don't see it miraculously reach boiling point in front of my eyes and disappear! Therefore, Americans confuse me, rather than the other way around.

Well... I don't get confused... But I do agree that calling gas to a liquid is at least... confusing! xD