When you were growing up , what car did your parents have?

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The first car I remember my dad having was a Micra

Volvo estate in cherry red and a BMW sports car. I have very fond memories of long journeys in the Volvo.

Blue honda

Ford Zephyr (Mk4 or so google tells me). I loved that car.

A lada. It was disgustingly old and tin can-ish.

From what I remember VW Golf, Ford escort, Peugeot 205, 207, 306, 206 cc, 208 (they like Peugeot's), Ford Capri, daihatsu, lots of old style minis, a Mini Cooper sport and my DF has had about 10 different bikes as well and I'm only 27 only 1 of them cars and a couple of bikes have been from brand new though, they've usually gone for used.

A series of Ford Anglias all prone to overheating

A Triumph Dolomite!

In a lovely cornflower blue.

We didn't have one. My Dad could drive and had a Mini in the 1960s but I believe he sold it just before I was born.

Honda

My mum had a Talbot Sunbeam. I’ve never known anyone else to actually ever admit to owning one!

We had a Vauxhall nova saloon and a green Skoda with a black vinyl roof

When I was little mum had a Renault 5 that needed a push start most mornings. Dad had a triumph dolomite sprint that he swapped for a very boring grey Rover 200. Then they got a Rav4 which I loved.

Skoda's, new and replaced every 3 years.
Can't remember when from, thinking about it we probably only had 2 as they couldn't have afforded it when I was very small or until my mum did her NNEB, then teaching degree and started teaching when I was 9.

Then a Nissan, not Micra - what was the next sized one? I learned to drive in that.

They got two cars when my grandad died (so '94 I think) and they kept his for a while and having got used to two.

You can tell everyone's age here by their answers.

Several but my favourite was a brand new Ford XR4i. My father drove up a long hill on the A23 at 138 with me excitedly saying "faster, faster" it was the start of my obsession with cars. He also had a Ferrari that he raced. I now drive a classic car every day, and the joy I get more than makes up for the regular bills. It's my only luxury.

We had a succession of shitty cars, always old. Parents were pretty poor. We had a few Nissans; a Sunny, a Primera. Ford Escort estate, which is still going according to the DVLA tax checker! We had a nice Volvo 340 which was old but an excellent car. Nowadays, my mum treats herself to a nice small car with all the bells and whistles.

Ford mondeo, Vauxhall Astra

Volkswagen split screen campervan, one red and one orange.
Some Renault thing, I was too young to remember that one.
A Volkswagen double cab pick up thing in army green
Volkswagen caravelle
Vauxhall zafira
A multitude of land rovers... we are farmers!

An Austin maestro- the windows didn’t wind down and my sister used to tell my dad she would suffocate and die If he didn’t get a new car 😂

take my boyfriend's mum had a Talbot Sunbeam that he used to borrow when his car was laid up.

The first one I remember was an Avenger which was followed by an Austin 1800 and my mum got a ancient Mini.

Ooh good thread!

A yellowish/cream Astra was the first one I remember and then my dad started to get company cars (ford Mondeos mostly.) my grandma thought they were dead posh!

Mum had an original Fiat 500
Dad had an Hilman Avenger Rally car and Simica Estate

A real mini (the tiny ones) and a Morris Traveller (Mum), Dad had a mirena or maybe it was a Marina and then a series of volvos.

Hillman Avenger

A blue daf, yellow Vauxhall viva and a triumph dolomite. The last one was particularly embarrassing.