Any other security questions you’d like people to expose? What about the street I grew up on driving that car? /s

Mercedes-Benz G500

Strange choice for a driving school. Not necessarily bad you'll learn to drive a big boxy car, switching to other models will be easier later.

For me it was a Fiat Punto

'84 Grand Marquis

If you can parallel park THAT, you can parallel park ANYTHING!

Driver's Ed: 1986 Chevy Cavalier and it was a horrible brown color.

Parent's Cars:

1986 Buick Skyhawk: Very crappy car. The gas pedal didn't so much produce acceleration, but rather an eventual increase of the angular momentum of the tires.

1970 Chevy Impala: Loved this car. Huge and had a 400cid small block with a 400 Turbo Hydromatic with a 12 bolt posi rear end. It's the car that really taught me how to drive. It eventually ran 13's in the quarter mile.

Learned how to drive manual: 1983 (I think) Ford Escort

REALLY learned how to drive a manual: 1949 Willys Overland. A friend's Dad's car. Why did it REALLY teach me how to drive a manual? Easy, it had a non-syncrho'd transmission, much like the big rigs have. This car taught me rev-matching, double clutching, and an appreciation about how cars really work. It also had a column shifter. Once I learned how to handle the transmission, it was a lot of fun to drive. It made me a much better driver.

The car that taught me how to race (there were two):

1985 Toyota MR-2: Was a friend's car that I Autocrossed (Pro Solo) along with him. He actually made it to Nationals with this car several times. Later he won Nationals with a Supra Turbo. This was in the mid-90's.

1985 Corolla GT-S: This was my car. It was the AE86 platform with the same engine as the MR-2. Absolutely ferocious car. It didn't handle as well as the MR-2, but it was soooo much fun. This car taught me "trail braking" and a lot of other performance driving skills. This remains my favorite car I've ever owned, even to this day. I'd love to find one and restore it.

1991 Ford S10 pickup, on the farm, when I was 8 years old. I only crashed it on the farm once -- in first gear, stopped. Took foot off clutch and lurched forward into the wall in front of me. In my defense, I hadn't been instructed on how to turn it off yet ;)

Ford Econoline van.

hornyposting for weeks

recently turned 18

Pack it up fellas

Ahh the Chevrolet Datamine, it was also my first car!

Ford Focus Mk2, back in 2007. Manual transmission, of course, because automatic lessons were (and still are) rare in the UK.

A 1971 Massey Ferguson 135. And yes, that's a tractor. Guess who's got two thumbs and grew up on the countryside?

When learning to drive at speeds greater than 30km/h it was in my dad's 1995 Volvo 940, a car that was later passed down to me, and I drove it until March 2025.

I honestly don't remember the exact car model or even the manufacturer but it was nothing fancy. Some smallish car with manual transmission and no parking sensors or cameras. There weren't any others to choose from. This was in 2012.

The color of your first car is a fairly common backup question. Answering this in detail is not recommended.

a 1968 International dump truck.

zero AC, zero power steering, zero fucks.

once you got going with a load, nothing would stop it, not even the brakes. but, it always started and never quit.

Red '89 Civic hatchback. It lacked power steering so I had to turn the wheel a hundred times to make it turn. It felt ancient to me and it was manual transmission. My dad wanted me to learn manual even though most cars are automatic in the US. No power steering absolutely sucked, but it turns out knowing how to drive manual can be pretty useful.

2004 Toyota Corolla with manual transmission.

I think it was a Peugeot 306

Opel Vivaro

An '84 manual diesel 4-cylinder Isuzu pickup

1998 Pontiac Grand Am.

Fantastic car, thing never broke down. Hell you could drive without an oil change and the thing would keep going. Was pretty much the 90s version of the K-Car.

Nice way to get the answer to an often used security question!

I learned on a variety of cars, including one old Post Office truck. Standard and automatic transmissions.

imho, try as many different vehicles as you can. Personally, I like a smaller car OR a van where I sit high. Not a fan of large sedans/SUVs.

I think it was a SEAT Leon, but its 19 years ago so I might misremember

Early 80s Chevy Chevette.

It was so basic of a car it was unreal. Manual transmission, no radio, I mean, the damn thing was with a giant riding lawnmower with a hatchback.

'78 Toyota Land cruiser troop carrier, down dirt tracks with my father when I was 14.

1982 AMC eagle wagon with woody side panels.

The car actually caught on fire while I was driving, and I was known as the person that smelled like burnt car in high school, because that burning rubber/plastic smell stayed in my books and materials for the entire school year.

Currently also taking driving lessons and I’m getting lessons in a Mercedes-Benz C-Class Estate.

I have no idea besides that was a stick shift with 4 wheels. Is this something people normally care about?

A Mercury Grand Marquis, I think.

What's more interesting was how I learned to drive stick, which was buying a brand new Hyundai Accent with almost zero prior practice (basically just test-driving it and a couple of other cars I'd considered), then driving it home in stop-and-go rush hour traffic. I barely stalled it at all, LOL.

(I didn't have anybody to instruct me, either: my mom never learned to drive stick and my dad hadn't done so in decades. I was just really motivated because it was more fun, so I did a bunch of reading beforehand and taught myself.)

Currently learning on a Peugeot e-208 which is electric. Apart from that, it is more or less the same as the manual version.

I dont know but its grey and has four wheels

Some early 2000s ford Mondeo diesel.

Ford KA Mk1, absolute shitbox and I still miss it despite driving a classic super mini these days.

Early aughts Fiat Punto.

The family car which was a Vauxhall Cavalier.

My first real drive was my brother's Saab. Quirky car to start with

Early 80's Subaru sedan with a manual. On a cross country trip with my dad when we moved from the West Coast to Massachusetts. Good times...except hitting a turtle somewhere in Penn.

The driving school's VW Golf.

Though to be fair, I did start learning in my dad's Saab 95 BioPower, and his Peugeot 406 convertible.

no sure. I did not get my license until like 21 because my friends were sick of me not being able to drive so I took it on my friends automatic small car. My parents had a stick shift station wagon.

My mom's early 90's minivan. I think it was a Voyager.

Learned to drive in was over a long time so uhhhh whatever was around when my parents wanted to teach me.

My first car was the old family minivan though. 9x something dodge caravan.

Driving lessons was with a Peugeot 308 is think. I also had supervised driving with my parents, I mostly drove my dad's Peugeot Partner (horrible car). When I go my license my parents bought me a second hand Citroën Xantia. This car was awesome 😎.

A dark green '96 Fiat Furtodidati. It was the Frodediidentità special edition, with the extra cupholders.

I learned to drive in a Honda Civic. I named it Princess after my first pet, and I listened to "The Smiths" during my driving lessons, in honor of my mother's maiden name.

A Dodge Colt with a horrible manual transmission. Years later I bought a Veloster with manual transmission because shifting was so incredibly smooth compared to what I trained on, and I learned that manual can be pretty fun. I have an automatic now but often use the manual shifter to downshift when going down steep hills or sometimes just to use my brakes less when approaching a red light.

I don't remember, I wasn't very into cars at that moment... I just know it was a pretty common car brand among taxis in an economically backwards part of China, so most likely a budget Chinese or Korean brand. Also it was a stick shift

The car my driving instructor use to teach me in was a VW Golf IV, the first car that I owned and had the opportunity to gather some driving experience in was a red VW Golf II, and the car that I used most to drift and test the limits was a VW Lupo I drove during my time in civil service.

So, depending on what you consider "learn to drive", these are probably my answers. All brilliant cars, loved each and every one of them.

Fiat Punto.

Exam cars in my area were puntos so schools tended to teach the same model.

Some manual car provided by the driving school. Not a gear/petrol/car head

The format was a bit bigger than a compact or full-size.

Learned in a smallish tractor, think it was a Massey Ferguson. Then a Ford Escort van, still around the farm.

On the actual roads it was a Ford Fiesta

Suzuki Samurai

honda accord

A 1980 Toyota small pickup, manual shift. And I learned on Pine Barrens sugar sand.

Don't remember, a 205 maybe (manual 4 speed)

Probably the first case I got behind the wheel in was a VW Rabbit Diesel. Which isn't saying much as it wasn't a car I continued to drive, but I can't remember what I mostly drove. Probably a Ford Escort wagon. Or maybe a Jeep pickup. Or maybe a Buick Electra Limited — that was a fucking boat.

A Peugeot P4 and I'm still traumatised. 😭

Parents had a 1995 Pontiac Transport and a 2001(?) Oldsmobile Silhouette. Hated driving vans.

Learning to drive sounds lovely in your country if you get to pick your car from a selection! (I'm from the US).

'89 Hyundai Sonata

I guess it depends on the country, we have to provide our own cars in the US. I used my brothers small Toyota Corolla so i could do the 3 point turns and stuff easier in a smaller car. If you go too far up the curb or into the grass, you fail. Then after i got my license, i bought a HUGE cheap chevy impala. That thing was a boat, but drove so well.

Austin A30 van... Tell you I'm old without... etc etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_A30?wprov=sfla1

A riding lawnmower. Good enough to get the basic hand eye coordination down, so when I drove a real car it wasn't a big deal.

The first actual car I drove was a Toyota sienna.

Some yellow modern Peugeot, can't remember the make