Society & Culture Your First Car?

[SaintsSeptember]

Haha I feel sorry for 8-year-ago me as well . I'm on to my 3rd car now though, a 2008 G6E Turbo I picked up for under $30k mid last year. Goes 0-100 km/h in less than half the time of the poor old Magna .

I think the 2.6 auto magna was one of the first cars to have traction control. You could put your foot to the floor and nothing spun ... ever.

THey G6E's are a rocket, I think my AWD Territory Turbo would get it on a wet or slippery surface though.

 

[HARPSichord]

Dont crash it whatever you do.

And seriously the price of used Falcons and Commodores whatever you lose in fuel you will gain in other costs.

Not safe?

 

[BotsMaster]

Could be getting a 1998 Ford Festiva GLXi as my first car.

You're better off with a 1979 ZJ Fairlane

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Not safe?

I'd heard them mentioned before as the type of car that needed to be phased out, but when I look it up there are a lot of others that share the 1 star rating.

Suzuki Swift, Ford Laser, Toyota Corolla from that era all share the 1 star rating.

I'm not a huge fan of their safety ratings. For example to get five stars you have to have a light on the dash if the passenger doesnt put the seat belt on.
Now if you have no passenger or you have a passenger that puts their seat belt on anyway ( like I've trained my kids to ) its just as safe as the 4 star car without the light.
Same with rear curtain airbags / passenger airbags, only makes a difference to your passengers.

My family car has a good rating but the cheapo Proton I bought to drive to work each day has a single airbag, it hasnt been tested yeat but its probably crap.

 

[HARPSichord]

I'd heard them mentioned before as the type of car that needed to be phased out, but when I look it up there are a lot of others that share the 1 star rating.

Suzuki Swift, Ford Laser, Toyota Corolla from that era all share the 1 star rating.

I'm not a huge fan of their safety ratings. For example to get five stars you have to have a light on the dash if the passenger doesnt put the seat belt on.
Now if you have no passenger or you have a passenger that puts their seat belt on anyway ( like I've trained my kids to ) its just as safe as the 4 star car without the light.
Same with rear curtain airbags / passenger airbags, only makes a difference to your passengers.

My family car has a good rating but the cheapo Proton I bought to drive to work each day has a single airbag, it hasnt been tested yeat but its probably crap.

Festiva has no airbags.

But I guess most cars from pre-2000 wouldn't have had airbags.

 

[Xtreme]

Mazda MX5

Wanted one ever since i hooned around in one when playing the original Gran Turismo. Lived the dream

 

[grizzlym]

2-door Celica thing. The 65 Mustang Fastback replaced that soon enough.

 

[vealesy]

one just like this. absolute shit box but i loved the initial freedom.

it ended up dying, so i left it parked in a public carpark i lived right next door to.

6 months later it was magically gone/stolen/scrapped.

meh.

 

[shurg123]

I think the 2.6 auto magna was one of the first cars to have traction control. You could put your foot to the floor and nothing spun ... ever.

THey G6E's are a rocket, I think my AWD Territory Turbo would get it on a wet or slippery surface though.

Yeah the traction in the G6ET is pretty much non-existent in the wet. Give it anything more than 1/3 throttle in first and you get wheelspin. Luckily it's an open diff and not an LSD like in the XR6T so there's no crazy fishtailing around to draw the attention of the cops .

 

[Jobe Watson]

2003 Holden Commodore VY Acclaim. Bought it last year, love it.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Festiva has no airbags.

But I guess most cars from pre-2000 wouldn't have had airbags.

My new Proton S16 has only driver airbag.
My smartarse 12YO said "I'm not going to put my seatbelt on, if you crash the airbag will save me"
I said, " see that hollow in the dash where my sunglasses are, that where the optional airbag goes" , she put her seatbelt on.

( I like my Proton, it goes well ).

 

[rustyg70]

2-door Celica thing. The 65 Mustang Fastback replaced that soon enough.

A 65 'Stang Fastback AND a wonderfully weird Dad.
You, my friend, are living the dream.
I doff my hat to you Grizzlym.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

1975 Toyota Crown in 1986. Very ugly but very nice and comfortable. Cost me $2500.

Was many cars ago now.

 

[Asgardian]

When buying a 2nd hand car make sure you don't get a cut'n'shut job.

 

[Messenger]

Or a hail damaged job.

 

[DTRAIN87]

Or a hail damaged job.

This. Never buy a VIV car.

 

[DerpWerls]

My first car was in about 2006, was a 1994 Magna Executive. Crashed it once and drove it around smashed up until I had a worse crash and it was undriveable.. Also had a 1994 Nissa Pulsar before that which I shared with my brother... "the pulsie"

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' WHAT.

Mitsubishi Lancer 2001. Same as photo without the super wax job, my wheels are better but.

Still got it, ticking along nicely. Still under 100k km travelled, bought it second hand so doing OK.

 

[Easty]

Also had a 1994 Nissan Pulsar before that which I shared with my brother... "the pulsie"

My first, and current car.

Things are slowly starting to break on it... which isn't good. I want it to survive until the end of uni so I can afford to replace it with an Audi A5.

 

[Dazb86]

EB ford.

 

[DarwinRoo]

1995 Toyota Lexcen

 

[Nothing]

datsun 1600.. i still love the look of them today. vintage stuff.. ended up with too much rust in the firewall to be worth restoring properly (with 17yo income)...

I had the Dato 1600 wagon, very similar to this but a brighter orange.

It weighed next to nothing, with the only weight in the back end being the fuel tank, going around corners in the wet was a lot of fun. Ended up wrapping it around a telephone pole, 'Jerry Was A Race Car Driver' style.

 

[Natho]

03 Nissan Pulsar

 

[HARPSichord]

03 Nissan Pulsar

How many mainies did it do?

 

[j0nni]

Mine was a 90' Mazda 626
It was the biggest POS ever, but I still loved it.
Writing it off was the best thing ever though.