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TT · 10-03-2003, 06:15 PM

Was chatting with gis tonight and showed him a pic of a driving school in my town, using a Renault Clio Sport 172 as learning car.. I was saying to him the school I attended when I was 18 had an Opel Astra 1.6 ...

I'm not sure driving schools are mandatory everywhere in the world, so your parent's car I guess is ok..

In effect I learned to drive in an Ape Piaggio when I was 13 or 14 I think.. it was the model with a wheel and normal pedal clutch, 125 cc...

Then I have to admit I drove more than once my parents' cars before I actually had my license..

So the cars in wich I learnt to drive:

Ape Piaggio 125 cc (car?!? LOL!)
Opel Vectra 2.0 (automatic bleargh)
Audi A4 2.8 quattro
Opel Astra 1.6 (school)
Opel Astra 1.6 Estate (mom)

That's all LOL

AlienDB7 · 10-03-2003, 06:34 PM

I learned to drive in a Toyota Corolla (with a 1.8 I think), unfortunately.. Most of the driving schools here use corolla, civic, protege (323) or focus. However, I've seen larger driving school(s) using mustangs.

deth · 10-03-2003, 06:43 PM

1998 V70XC (Mom's)
1997 honda civic (Driving School)
1982 BMW 735i (Grandparents)
2000 BMW 528is (Dad's)
199? Dogdge Caravan (Friend's) (hehehe...we cracked the tranny case jumping it)

stradale · 10-03-2003, 07:15 PM

I drove in several cars with my dad before driving school.
Fiat Tempra 2.0
Fiat Uno 1.4
Volvo S40 2.0

The driving school had a VW Vento (Jetta for you Americans, probably a '96). It was a TDi and if there's anything I hate... O well, it was a good driving school and I passed the first time.

Those are the cars in which I learned to drive. Before my license, that is. After that you learn much more IMO.

gis · 10-03-2003, 08:52 PM

the UK seems a lot different

at the age of 16 u can get your provisional license,which allows u to learn if u like with a person who has a driving license,but not many people i know of do that.they wait till 17,when 17,thats the official age to drive,u can then go out with anyone who has a valid drivers license BUT u have to get insurance to do it,so as u can imagine,it costs a LOT to do it.then u get lessons with a driving instructor,then when they feel that your ready they will enter u for the theory and then the actual test.

i drove 3 cars B4 i actually started learning with an instructor the cars bein

VW scirocco 1.6 and a 1.8
VW golf GTI 16v (got to 2nd gear,never turned the wheel and my dad said,ok,thats enough,dont know why :roll: ,lol)

and then last of all was the saxo i drive now

but when i was with the instructor she tought me all the other stuff in a vauxhal corsa 1.2 16v

SFDMALEX · 10-03-2003, 08:59 PM

HeHe ZAZ 968. A ttue Ukrainian car lol. Its funny that the first car I drove wasnt my dads. My friends dad owned a 968, and It was the first car I drove. The gearbox was a bitch on that thing.

here is what it looks like.

fedezyl · 10-03-2003, 10:15 PM

a Daewoo Tico peice of shit

blah · 10-03-2003, 10:37 PM

I had the most ghetto/mexican driving school ever. On my car on the side it said in spanish too, thats how ghetto it was. A damn pos 98 Corrola, where the gas pedal would get stuck, and id basically have to kick it to go, and it almost didnt make it up a hill.

altezza · 10-03-2003, 10:49 PM

1996 Toyota Corolla (automatic) (driving instructor's)
my friend's 1980 Honda Accord (manual) (he bought it for $600 CDN)
2002 Mini Cooper (manual), btw it's a rental car, haha

initiala4 · 10-03-2003, 11:05 PM

Nissan Cedric Brougham VIP 1993....manual!

stracing · 10-03-2003, 11:32 PM

when i was learning it wasn't compulsory to goto driving school. but i went for the first 10 hours anyways. the first 10 hours i was in a camry, from then on i drove in my parents accord.

then i got my own car and taught myself how to drive manual with a bit of help from friends.

Kangaroo Boy · 10-04-2003, 01:19 AM

When I was learning to drive,My grandad taught me..He owns 2 austin 1800.WTF is a Austin?

Well,Its a bigger version of a Mini.BMC made them and rally them as well.The engine where 1.8ltr MG engine(series B engine),It was good fun.Otherwise,My parents taught me to drive in a Magna

. Both cars are Manuals.

My Grandads car

Thats the rally one

draak666 · 10-04-2003, 05:46 AM

First time: a straight line down the road with my uncle in a Mazda 323
Second time: a few ovals in my uncle's Audi 80
Actual driving with my dad's BMW 318i
A few lessons in a Renault Cio. There's a driving school in Leuven that started offering lessons in a BMW 320d one year later, damn... Wish I got that one.

BTW driving school isn't compulsory over here.

Wide · 10-04-2003, 06:43 AM

First I drive my friends 5.20
Than improve my self with Mazda 626 2.0

KaBlookie · 10-04-2003, 11:56 PM

I first learned on a 1997 Ford Escort (i'm sorry, that thing was a piece of junk...o wait, i'm not sorry bout that

), then after my mom replaced it with a 2002 Volvo S40, I was driving that for a while. Now, I drive either of my parents' cars, which are the Volvo and my dad's recently-acquired 2000 Acura 3.2TL (GOD i love driving that car!!)