What car did you learn to drive in? Shocked to see what learners are now driving...

bigmike20vt said:
I wonder going forward with EVs there could not be a power limiter which could be enabled until drivers had a certain amount of experience under their belt.
that way you could let your kid drive a safeish car like a new R5...... but with a 0-60 knocked back to 12 or even 15*** seconds and speed limited to 80mph.

*** it's a balancing act. I sometimes felt the acceleration of my pug 1.4 306 was bad enough to be hairy when fully loaded pulling onto a fast road. sometimes a bit of poke can be safer.
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But then they aren't getting a real feel for it. The mundane EVs aren't quick and most have a low top speed. Plus all the nannies. If anything it's safer.
 
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Instructor lessons in a Renault Clio mk2, and with my dad in a VW Transporter T4 LWB - quite a difference, especially when going from one straight to the other :cry:
 
My Dad was a school caretaker around Brum and when he had a school at Bordsely green there was a scrap yard at bottom of road so he bought old cars (mainly Austin 7)for £15 -fixed it and us three lads learned to drive when we were around 11teen +.
At that time we went to bikes and it wasn't till I was 20 + got a job where company had it's own driving instructor and went out in Morris Minor van - He said your OK stick L plates on works van (25cwt Morris diesel van) and will put you in for a test. Anyone used a crash box ? Brakes were rubbish but passed first time - then went out and spent £75 on Ford Zodiac Mk2. Mates all had Minies and Angle boxes. (Ford Anglias)
It was quite exciting changing down -turn on blinker and shove your arm out of window to say you was turning right -left or slowing down.
Is it easier today ? To be honest I wouldn't like to start now due to volume but that could be old age.
That was a long time ago -Blimey !!
 
MK2 focus, and then mk4 fiesta.

First car was a 1.0l nova saloon, crashed that, then had a 1.1 MK2 fiesta I bought off my old man.

KIds today are missing out on so much fun that was had with **** boxes and working your way up the car ladder.

Nowadays seems they jump straight to the BMW's and mercs etc etc
 
Instructor's car was a Toyota Corolla and Mum's car (that she let me chauffeur her around it 'cos she hated driving) was a Toyota Starlet.
 
sx_turbo said:
MK2 focus, and then mk4 fiesta.

First car was a 1.0l nova saloon, crashed that, then had a 1.1 MK2 fiesta I bought off my old man.

KIds today are missing out on so much fun that was had with **** boxes and working your way up the car ladder.

Nowadays seems they jump straight to the BMW's and mercs etc etc
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learned how to 'drive' in an E reg Isuzu Trooper...driving lessons were in a Nissan Micra
had a MK1 fiesta bought for £50, never on the road but insured to get the insurance costs down (f knows how that worked)
first car was a 1.2 4 speed Nova, wrote that off and got another 1.2 Nova with 5 speed box, it wasn't as fast so put the engine from the old 4 speed 1.2 in it, still no difference! eventually put the 4 speed box in and back to normal
The differences must have been so small but it made all the difference back then

might be wrong but see lots of young drivers far closer to the centre line than the kerb, maybe influenced by their driving instructor not wanting their alloys getting 'kerbed' (understandablish)
 
builder22 said:
learned how to 'drive' in an E reg Isuzu Trooper...driving lessons were in a Nissan Micra
had a MK1 fiesta bought for £50, never on the road but insured to get the insurance costs down (f knows how that worked)
first car was a 1.2 4 speed Nova, wrote that off and got another 1.2 Nova with 5 speed box, it wasn't as fast so put the engine from the old 4 speed 1.2 in it, still no difference! eventually put the 4 speed box in and back to normal
The differences must have been so small but it made all the difference back then

might be wrong but see lots of young drivers far closer to the centre line than the kerb, maybe influenced by their driving instructor not wanting their alloys getting 'kerbed' (understandablish)
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I think they probably drive more to the centre because the cars are so big they're learning in, certainly not many learning in fiestas and corsas (though even they've ballooned massively) I've seen mostly 1 series, BMW minis and Merc a classes as the chariots of choice for learning in round my way

The good old days when you could buy a motor taxed and tested for £50.

New cars were only a few grand depending on what you were getting.

Cars were actually affordable, the good old days where you owned the car out right. These days it's all mostly lease plan and hp finance.

I'm sure it all went wrong when the government changed the company car tax rules, and the garuntee £1500 scrap value peddled with the finance.
 
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