What cars do private school mums drive?

I drive youngest DS to his prep school in my 9yr old hatchback.

It is a good car, can't see why I'd change it (yet). It's big enough to fit 2 kids and 1 dog.

It is not reverse snobbery, the care is just fine.

DH car is older and crapper (his has no airco and sometimes breaks down).

We are not really into cars as a family

Of course people care (pointless though the whole issue is) !

If they didn't there would be far fewer expensive cars on the road - people would just buy what they needed. e.g People have big expensive 4X4s in towns because they like them, want them and can afford them.

And if people didn't care this thread would exist or grow! Not with any comments other than 'I have no idea, don't look'.

And it's obvious that more people who can afford private school will be able to afford an expensive car (IF they want one) than the rest of the population.

I have an average type family car - it is a Fiat.

However, there are some lovely cars rolling up in the morning at the school my DS goes to, including a white Bentley. I can't compete with premiership footballers or other multi millionaires so I don't really care about turning up in my average car. Most people seem to have nicer cars than me but some have worse cars too. The thing I have learnt since I sent my child to a private school is that I shouldn't bother aspiring to be wealthy or trying to make out that I am "financially successful". There are people there in a different financial league to me so there is no point in trying to impress anyone. I simply won't be able to impress on those terms - ever! But the important thing is that I don't think the filthy rich give a toss that I am a pauper in comparison. They still let my son play with theirs. I don't think anyone really cares. I haven't noticed that they do anyway.

My mum drove an old Nissan (actually a Datsun) estate, and when that died, got a Sierra estate, same as my Dad's. Of course, that was some years ago (!) before 4x4s were so common - but most of my friends' parents had "normal" cars too. A few had the big Mercs and so on, but not many.

The people I know who have kids at private school have:
XC90
XC90
Land Rover
Porsche
Some sort of estate
VW Tiguan (?)
No car: don't drive.
Ancient Toyota Previa
Flash Mercedes
BMW

My 'bloke' always did the school run.
But he doesn't drive and hasn't got a car.

I have a very practical car, but luckily as I live in a normal (inner-city) London area with a very mixed demography and an EXCELLENT state school (at primary and secondary) I don't need to drive DC to school so no-one knows what my car is.

(that is to the poster living in the U.S)

Kids are brought in by coach. The private primary over the road is a different story. The roads are very narrow but the Range Rovers and other 4x4s squeeze down there anyway. Lots of Jags and BMWs. Audi Q series. The Minis are all 6th Formers' cars. In fact, most of the 6th Formers drive nicer cars than the teachers do....

The only person I know with DC in private school drives a small 10 YO Japanese 4X4, but I think her DS goes to said private school on the bus. HTH.

The person with the poshest car I know (massive brand new mercedes) is a builder or similar tradesman.

I'm sure he doesn't put his bricks and tools in the car but he does drive is wearing filthy builder clothes. I don't know whether he has any DCs and if so where they go to school.

I don't know from personal experience. I do know that the head of a private school my friend was considering for her dc said to her "well you only have to look at the cars to see what type of parents we have "

She didn't send them there because he also told her he thought all children were inherently evil

Well my parents were both ends of the spectrum with a Rolls Royce, Volvo estate that was 8 or 9 years old and a Metro. We hated when we were picked up in the Rolls as everyone stared at us. We would lie down on the floor in the back and my mother would yell at us to put our seat belts on all the way home.

Honestly no one gives a darn about your car. Most of my friends parents had old beat up estates. We are not doing private schools for our DC as we are in the US and the public schools are excellent as we live in a nice area. I walk both kids to school. DH drives a Q5 because its a company car. If we were paying for it he would be in an old (7+ years old) Ford or GM. I do not understand the whole need for an expensive or new car.

Don't think the post is sexist to be honest.

I can guarantee when I used to do the primary school run (two different schools) 99% of the parents at the gate were female. Very rare to see a bloke do the school run ime. Dh I don't think ever did it and we both work so it's not like I'm a SAHM.

wondering why the OP is asking.....

I remember from my school days one boy being dropped off in a Jag - except his dad was a builder and had taken out the back seats and it was always full of bricks.

ponies are cheaper than a Yaris tell that to the pregnant friend who once asked me how much child benefit was - and then exclaimed "How much? I couldn't keep my horse on that"

Isnt this post just sexist (as well as offensive), men drive their kids to school as well.

DS's friend's dads all seem to have Aston Martins or Ferraris as a third "fun" car. The Mums all drive range rovers or Porsche Cayenne. However, some pupils turn up in their dad's works vans - I boy's dad appears to be a coal merchant and there are quite a few builders.

I drive a Ford Fiesta - we are definitely the poor relations (divorced, teacher - our house is the same size as some of his friend's pool houses)

DS is 17 now so it's interesting to hear what cars his friends have received for their birthday and the astonishing amounts that some parents pay for insurance.

MY sons nursery is in a well to do area and they all seem to drive newish cars - 2-3 years old at most. Audis, BMWs, VWs... I feel well shoddy pulling up in my 11 year old Seat Arosa I did a victory dance when I spotted a fellow Mum dropping her kids off in a battered old peugeot!!

16 year old worthless Toyota but sometimes I go in a truck to keep everyone on their toes.
Squeeze it in between the Audi's, Bentley's and Porches.

I only judge one mum because she is a useless mother and her son is a bully, the fact she drives a Range Rover just makes me think she is a wannabe

Couldn't care less what car everyone else drives. It is irrelevant.

who ponies are cheaper than a Yaris.

I'd have died and gone to heaven if someone had brought a pony to school for me to ride home on. #urbanponymadkid

Sounded like the first line of a joke!

Well. I can tell you that my DM drove a 7yo Mazda 323 to collect my DSis from her private school.

She drove the same car to collect me from my state school. My friend however used to get collected from our school by her (famous) dad in his Roller. Beautiful car.