What car did you learn to drive in?

[Loofer]

Following on from another thread about cars that are currently used by driving instructors, I thought it would be intresting to find out what we all learnt in.

If we do this based on the driving instructor's car or your own (or family/friend's) car that you predominantly learnt in.

Might also be intresting to know the price per lesson back then (excluding bulk booking deals). I'll go first. I think they're about +£20/hr now!!

1996
Nissan Sunny
1.4 Sport

Passed in 2000 at £12/hr

[cbrpaul]

Ford Escort mk1

nuff said :Blush2::p

[Sam]

Driving instructor had a 1.6 Toyota Carena E on a K plate. I passed (first time) in 1997 at £10 p/h I think.

I also had the use of an H plate 2.2L Peugeot 505 GTI estate - rear wheel drive bliss. Plenty of fishtailing too ;)

[gemjampot]

hey!

initially i learnt to drive in a 205 gti (1.6), then my dad bought me a D reg polo in tornado red (which had faded and was almost white) - i drove that from then on until i took lessons in an S reg fiesta

passed 2000 £cant remember!

[cbrpaul]

Ford Escort mk1

nuff said :Blush2::p

....and about 3 shillings per hr

:D

[gemjampot]

Driving instructor had a 1.6 Toyota Carena E on a K plate. I passed (first time) in 1997 at £10 p/h I think.

I also had the use of an H plate 2.2L Peugeot 505 GTI estate - rear wheel drive bliss. Plenty of fishtailing too ;)

505 gti - awesome! :notworthy

[Loofer]

....and about 3 shillings per hr

:D

LoL... so was that Mk1 the newest car out at the time? hehe:p
Blimey this is is a fast moving thread!! Must be taking alot of people back down memory lane

[Loofer]

I didn't know what a estate 505 GTi looked like so I googled it and this is what it came up with.
They use very similar Peugeots (i'm not sure if they are 505s) in Egypt as official taxis. Theres loads of them in Luxor and in very good condition too. Look like hearses!!;)
I think if you can learn to drive in one of them then you should automatically get the category for buses and articulated lorries on your license!

[gemjampot]

ha haa! yes, the taxi drivers in egypt are absolute loons, driving round with sidelights on! they also hassled the hell out of me....

[Sam]

505 gti - awesome! :notworthy


I didn't know what a estate 505 GTi looked like so I googled it and this is what it came up with.
They use very similar Peugeots (i'm not sure if they are 505s) in Egypt as official taxis. Theres loads of them in Luxor and in very good condition too. Look like hearses!!;)
I think if you can learn to drive in one of them then you should automatically get the category for buses and articulated lorries on your license!

It went like poop, and for a 17 year old kid learning to drive it was awesome.

I posted some stories in a thread here - Stupid things you've done involving a motor vehicle... (http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=10791)

My mum had two 505 GTi estates and a 505 GTi saloon. The saloon was even more fun. I always wanted them to buy a 505 V6 but the only ones we could ever find were in France and being used by the French version of British Gas - they were monsters.

Anyway, back to the topic ;)

[Ben]

I learned to drive in a H reg Citroen AX in 1995.

I passed my test 1st time

Taught by cousin,

total costs inc. licence less than £100

[mobitune]

Learned in my father's 6 year old '86 Peugeot 205XLD, then two lessons in the instructor's car (fiesta 1.1 mk3) before going for my test, passed 1st time too! boy was I bricking it though.

[stratocaste1]

my audi a3 1.6 sport! crazy i know, stick some L plates on, getyour grandad next to ya and youll do fine!!!

[nel81]

1997 renault clio 1.9 diesel (no turbo though!) instructors car

£10 an hour in 1999 passed first time

also drove my first car peugeot 205 1.1 which was done up to look like a GTi!

[devonutopia]

I learned in Dad's 1.9i Citreon ZX Volcane. WHAT a machine! Had 130bhp, no cat, and was lovely to learn in - mainly because it was tough to stall, so was forgiving. I passed in that same car 23/07/96, so have been driving "qualified" for 11 years now.

I still remember doing 120 down a dualie with Dad asleep in the passenger seat - with the L plates on.... :D Oh, to be young again.

[Crasher]

1979 Golf 1 1.5 GL and a 1979 F0R* Fiasco 1.3S, in 1980.

[packageman23]

1991 Ford Escort my 1st & last FORD lol

[BaD-BoY]

My driver instructor had Nissan Micra ...but my first car was Ford Escort MK V 1.8 16V DOHC ...after little modification in germany (WOLF) ..had got about 160 BHP :) so ... not so bad :)

My 1st and last Ford as well :)

[MalcQV]

Instructors car - Talbot Sunbeam (80/81 model I think)
My own car which I passed my test in - MkIII Tina.

I think lessons were just under £5/lesson back in 81

[hagis]

My Mum's C-reg Micra (later my first car) and my instructor had an E-reg Micra. Most reliable car I've ever owned, I think it clocked up 114k before my brother wrote it off.

[bora(ing) nick]

I too learnt in a Nissan micra 1L.... Lessons where £17 ea, then £18 ....

Passed first time and bought a Nova, which i loved... Bought for £150, sold it for £280 and all i did was put a set of corsa alloys on it (£60).

Then i had an escort mk 6/7, 1.3 Possibly the worst power to weight ratio'd vehicle on the planet, and thus was my first and last Ford.

Nick

[be11y]

what a great thread , my first instuctor had a nissan sunny , when i failed my first test i ditched him and my next instructor had a talbot horizon , oh my god what a naff car that was then . my first car was a vw derby back in 87 , when we first moved over here we had a naff fiat punto , but then over here they're everywhere , got a cordoba now "proper spanish car" haha .

[loki]

I did 6 lessons in a Clio then my instructor got a new Yaris. Much preferred drivng the Clio, you got more feedback than the Yaris. £18 an hour just over 3 years ago. I only did 12 lessons and passed first time, helps when you've done motorbike licence first ;)

[Sam]

what a great thread , my first instuctor had a nissan sunny , when i failed my first test i ditched him and my next instructor had a talbot horizon , oh my god what a naff car that was then . my first car was a vw derby back in 87 , when we first moved over here we had a naff fiat punto , but then over here they're everywhere , got a cordoba now "proper spanish car" haha .

My old man drove a Talbot Horizon into the front of a Range Rover in a country lane.

Range Rover - slightly cracked paint on front bumper

Talbot Horizon - shortened by a few feet, engine visible from inside the cabin.

[PPP Wagon]

Mercedes 190E (2.0) My dad'z car & my 1st car,
Fiesta XR2i (bought before i started takin lessons). Loved it!!!

[johnny74]

Started with a Peugeot 205 and then the instructor changed it for an even slower 106. Passed first time in 1993, £15 a lesson, 40-50 lessons. Wasn't actually able to afford my own car till around 2003-4.

[rsharr88]

i just learned in a yaris diesiel....fun

[Paulpro]

I think it was in 1971 using a Mk 1 Ford Escort. Believe me this was luxury after going to work (at a bank) in my first suit on a Triumph Tiger Cub ! It usually took till dinnertime to dry out the suit some days ! The lessons cost about £1 (in old money). After passing (2nd time), my first car was a Morris 1100 in smoke grey, RUST and filler ! Prior to an MOT test, I remember finding a hole in the rear subframe and filled it up with a good mix of concrete, coating it in bitumen to get it through the test - and it did. I just couldn't afford a new subframe in those days. On finding the sills were going the same way, I stopped short of filling them with concrete as well. I quickly moved on to a Triumph Spitfire - brilliant :naughty:

[debbie4979]

I learnt to drive in a Polo then a Renault Clio

[colb666]

I learnt to drive in a mk1 cavalier and my first car was a mk3 cortina 2.0xl way back in 1977.

[TerryR]

Please don't laugh... A Nissan Sunny!!!

:1zhelp::1zhelp::1zhelp:

[DarkAngel]

i learnt to drive in a vauxhall astra, 1.8 then changed over to a corsa, coz the instructor left the bsm

[k9max]

:Blush2: Morris Ital (drive one of them and you can drive anything),
Vauxhall Nova when they first came out, and I took my test in a 1984 Mazda 323!! .....the good old days when power steering was just something out of a science fiction film!!!!!

[shepton00]

I had the pleasure of the 205 1.1. Power power and then more power. It could barely get up my mum and dads drive. It coul go towards explaining why I o everywhere with my foot mashed into the carpet:aargh4:

[andymat]

I too learnt in a Nissan Sunny although I am not sure if then they weren't called Datsuns(!) And I think if I can remember that far back the lessons were £10 an hr. Can't help thinking that seems relatively more expensive than today.

Oh and Dad gave me unofficial lessons in Mum's Beetle.

[giuseppe]

i passed my test a few months ago. learnt in a kia rio. was pretty ugly and not much sex appeal, but i tell u wht, it shifted lol..was a 1.9turbo deisel. once the revs were above 3,500, its was pretty nippy. was given the odd lesson from the mother in teh lexus IS300 sportcross.