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.
Fiat Punto.
Exam cars in my area were puntos so schools tended to teach the same model.
A forest green 1997 Honda Accord
Ford KA Mk1, absolute shitbox and I still miss it despite driving a classic super mini these days.
My first real drive was my brother’s Saab. Quirky car to start with
Early 80’s Subaru sedan with a manual. On a cross country trip with my dad when we moved from the West Coast to Massachusetts. Good times…except hitting a turtle somewhere in Penn.
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.
I’ve only seen it as “what color was your first car?” But I learned to drive with my parents cars. They are not the same, nor even the same color
I suppose for some it’s the same and some may interpret the question differently
Some manual car provided by the driving school. Not a gear/petrol/car head
The format was a bit bigger than a compact or full-size.
Red '89 Civic hatchback. It lacked power steering so I had to turn the wheel a hundred times to make it turn. It felt ancient to me and it was manual transmission. My dad wanted me to learn manual even though most cars are automatic in the US. No power steering absolutely sucked, but it turns out knowing how to drive manual can be pretty useful.
Driving lessons was with a Peugeot 308 is think. I also had supervised driving with my parents, I mostly drove my dad’s Peugeot Partner (horrible car). When I go my license my parents bought me a second hand Citroën Xantia. This car was awesome 😎.
A dark green '96 Fiat Furtodidati. It was the Frodediidentità special edition, with the extra cupholders.
a 1968 International dump truck.
zero AC, zero power steering, zero fucks.
once you got going with a load, nothing would stop it, not even the brakes. but, it always started and never quit.
Mercedes-Benz G500
Strange choice for a driving school. Not necessarily bad you’ll learn to drive a big boxy car, switching to other models will be easier later.
For me it was a Fiat Punto
I learned on tiny back roads in hill country in a GMC Yukon Denali. That thing was the size of a small bedroom. Can confirm, driving anything else is a piece of cake.
They also had Range Rover Sport, Mini Cooper, BMW, Tesla, Lexus, Nissan… It was surprising to see a driving academy with such a nice selection of cars.
Are the lessons expensive ? Can’t see how they can afford leasing 100 000€ cars to students, who could potentially wreck them.
Or it is a money laundering front.
I didn’t really know much about it at first since my parents handled everything. Later on, I found out it’s actually a large academy, and they offer a special course for people who want to train in high-end cars. I checked their website, and it says 20 hours of training for that course costs around $7000.
Ooof it is a lot, for me it is around 1500€ for 20h. i couldn’t see myself paying this much
Hope you enjoy it !
The driving school’s VW Golf.
Though to be fair, I did start learning in my dad’s Saab 95 BioPower, and his Peugeot 406 convertible.
When I got my license in 2022 at 35, I spent some inheritance and bought a nearly new 2021 Seat Leon FR PHEV hatchback.
205bhp in my first car aint bad…
Ahh the Chevrolet Datamine, it was also my first car!
'84 Grand Marquis
If you can parallel park THAT, you can parallel park ANYTHING!
Patches O’Houlihan?
