How long did you drive your first car for?

Saxo VTR. 1 year and 25k miles.

Only changed for another one because I got a 2 year newer one with only 22k miles (mine had 70k) on it for about £500 extra.

This was 7 years ago.
 
A Peugeot 205 XS with a euro Rallye cam, 4-2-1 manifold and tweaked carb. With those mods it had it wasn't far off of a 1.6 GTI, but it wasn't crucially it wasn't a GTI and that made all of the difference in the world to the 17 year old and that's why it only lasted 4 months before being replaced with a 1.6 GTI... With a 2.0 16v 306 GTI6 lump under the bonnet :D.

And that's where my addiction to horsepower begun...
 
Nova 1.4i (not the GTi or whatever it was called)

Had it for just under a year. Was underwhelmed by the performance and in particular the handling. Swapped it for a Clio 1.4RT. Performance was great - very perky little engine and didn't feel like it was going to fall over when I went around a corner :) However, it was a total piece of junk - I had to have it towed a bunch of times.
 
Peugeot 307 1.4, had it for 7 years so far.
planning to get rid as soon as I find the perfect Jag.

I don't want to though :-( lots of memories in that car
 
Mk 2 Mondeo 2.0 Ghia x (18 months - Not enough cylinders)
Mk 3 Mondeo 2.5 V6 Ghia X (18 months - Not German enough)
e39 530i Sport (9 months - not quick enough but otherwise perfect, hence the next choice)
e39 M5 (3 years - Getting old)
e60 M5 (still have).
 
4.5 years
L Reg '93 5 door 1.4si Corsa.

Give to my brother by our gran, he used it for a year or two then passed it on to me when I passed my test. Got me to school and back and through the summer whilst I was at uni. Once I graduated it was definitely time to move on now I had some decent no claims and could afford the insurance on something more powerful/something with some actual power.
 
My current one (see signature). I've owned it since January 2010, but I've only had my full driving licence since August last year. I was driving the car (accompanied by my dad) on a Provisional quite a lot up until August, so I'm not sure if that counts :p

Plan to change it around this time next year for something that can cope with my commute a bit easier.
 
I went through a load of minis when at Uni.

Crashed them, had them stolen etc..

Moved onto an Astra GTE - got that out of my system.

e36 316i for years and years

e39 540i for the past 5 years.

I am 36 and my car history is very very short.
 
2 years out of my peugeot 106 quiksilver before it disintergrated totally but it cost me nothing so I didn't care too much. Now on a MG ZR 105 which i've had for about 2 years now which is also in the process of disintegrating lol. Nah I say that but it's not doing badly for the miles and nothing a few spanners and a couple hundred quid wont fix.
 
A 1.4 8v Clio, had it for two years. Passed it on to my girlfriend when I replaced it with something more exciting and the headgasket blew within 6 months.
 
1998 Ford Fiesta Finesse 1.3 Think it was about 21 months, traded it in for £100, got a Ford Focus ST to replace it. Should have kept it for 3 extra months so that I could get another years no claims, ahh well.
 
5UB said:
So you got your first car, how long did it take you to change it? - Did you change it because you were fed up and wanted something newer? Something quicker? Did you damage it and want to get rid of it quick?

So how long did the first car you had last?

For me, I am still on my first car, only been driving over 6 months now, no plans to get rid of it yet, will get at least another year and 6 more months out of it before I think about changing it. :)
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about 1.5 years.
Wanted something quicker.
Not made a scratch on it myself ( others did after returning one day :mad:, some idiot managed to scratch half the side with his/her bumper, and my dad ran into it with his car breaking a sidemarker some other day :o ).

I did however, break 2 rear springs after all that time (only half a spin on each side, didn't even notice until my 2nd MOT), too much airborne time I think :D ( loved flying it over 1 particular steep bridge around here at 80 mph) and too aggressive on speedbumps.


In retrospect I should have kept it, I ragged it and ragged it and abused it and it never skipped a beat or left me in the cold (unlike my current, 2nd car). //misses his old ''boring'' V40, so many memories of ragging it about and racing Corsa's and Civics and loading it up way beyond design (5ppl + 2 people in the boot) and other silly things :D.
 
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