and all I learnt in was a metro.......

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by Unknownsoldier

Not in the R!!!!!!!

Tom

OMG no!!!!!!!!

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by Unknownsoldier

Not in the R!!!!!!!

Tom

Looks like I'll be paying for lessons

[grasey]

My first driving experience was in a Ford Consul mk.1 column gears and a bench seat in the front my late dads car, but I passed my test in an Opal Kadett.

[Munro]

I learned in a mini which was brilliant, a type R would have been better

[Unknownsoldier]

You'd get through the test in Record time.

It should also go on record I got extra points on my test for squirrel flattening .

Tom

[alanwalne]

D reg twin tone Micra (instructor friend of grandmas who was paying for lessons). This is not as bad as it sounds as I learned in 1987/8

My daughter (5) says she likes Mummy's car (Aygo Blue) and can she keep it for her!!!

[Unknownsoldier]

Originally Posted by alanwalne

My daughter (5) says she likes Mummy's car (Aygo Blue) and can she keep it for her!!!

I've been asking my mum that for years, (330CI Sport ), don't think it'll happen somehow .

Tom

[dondon]

Originally Posted by grasey

My first driving experience was in a Ford Consul mk.1 column gears and a bench seat in the front my late dads car, but I passed my test in an Opal Kadett.

Much the same for me - a Wolsley 6/99. Massive car with bench seats (so the handbrake was down on the floor by the door - my Dad couldn't get near it). The same shape as the Morris Oxford / Austin Cambridge but bigger. Column change with 3 forward gears and Overdrive.

[cnicolini]

This can't be real!!! I remember in the 80s that they used to have driving lessons in the old Ford XR2 (C reg), now thats showing my age. The driving lessons were around £20 per hour on this car compared to the usual £7! An instructor would nt get insurance on a Type R!
He'd also be filling up every day!

I passed in a Datson Sunny!

[Unknownsoldier]

20 quid a lesson, thats cheap now!

Tom

[Korkut Varol]

I learned and passed in my dad's Fiat 124 sedan. That was back in 1975...

[angie4m]

I learnt in a Y reg Micra, in a light green metalic. Oooh er Mrs.

There is a learning school in Edinburgh that have a Cooper S Clubman (try doing a reverse round a corner in that! and a Cooper (Chip and bodykit) Bloke in my street has a Corsa VXR learner car - madness I tell you, especailly when he's had a few pupils knacker his wheels!

[Unknownsoldier]

Plus, the idea behind learner cars is they are slow and steady, because learners can't control that power (people with licences seem to have enough trouble), imagine this:

"Just take the car up the road accelerating gently to reach a goo speed for an emergency stop"........ 3 seconds later......60mph in a residential street.......dashboard tap....and smash through the windscreen, and or somebodies hedge.

Sheer madness.

One of my mates at school, wanted to be cool, dad was minted, and bought him a golf GTI as his first car (guess how long that lasted!), wrong about 30 seconds, forget it was in gear, turned the engine over, it went forward (had taken handbrake of prematurely, lack of experience showing) demolished a wall on top of his dads porsche 911 Turbo (you know the stupidly pricey ones, may have been a GTR, it was circa 95k anyway), in shock and to stop himself going over the wall, hit reverse and stoved his mum Jag X type thing in the side twisting the chassis, result 3 cars pretty much written off in about a minute........bet his dad wasn't happy, he ended up buying him a second (or third or fourth) hand punto. Dumbass.

Tom

[alanwalne]

In my village, there is a VW Eos & a Mini Cooper S.

One near by I followed on Tuesday had the reg SC xx ARY

Is there that much over supply in instructors that they have to go to these lengths to get business??

BTW it makes it harder when you buy a 2nd hand car - it used to be only Micras and Corsas et al that you had to check for learner abuse.

Not seen a 911 or an F430 yet, but it is only a matter of time....

[bucketp]

I learned and passed in a Civic! not a type r though, it was years ago and can,t remember the model

[grasey]

One of my mates at school, wanted to be cool, dad was minted, and bought him a golf GTI as his first car (guess how long that lasted!), wrong about 30 seconds, forget it was in gear, turned the engine over, it went forward (had taken handbrake of prematurely, lack of experience showing) demolished a wall on top of his dads porsche 911 Turbo (you know the stupidly pricey ones, may have been a GTR, it was circa 95k anyway), in shock and to stop himself going over the wall, hit reverse and stoved his mum Jag X type thing in the side twisting the chassis, result 3 cars pretty much written off in about a minute........bet his dad wasn't happy, he ended up buying him a second (or third or fourth) hand punto. Dumbass.

Tom[/quote]

I bet the insurance company loved him.

[dave525]

I was taught to drive in a Lada (A Russian Fiat 124) in 1973

[jasmac]

I learned on an ex RAF standard vanguard pick up

[smurf79]

Learnt in an P-reg Nissan Micra Vibe in 96/97. Kept on asking my dad recently to see if i could drive his new motor and it worked. He's got an Audi A6 3.0TDi LeMans Edition. If you think our 2.2's are quick, that thing flies for something so big!!