My first car was a used Honda Accord — not too old, maybe like 4 or 5 years. It had tinted windows which were so embarrassing because they were like reflective, and a HUGE spoiler. MORTIFYING. But! It worked! And got me to and fro, so no complaints here! 

I don’t drive at all. Purposely. The road rage of Florida drivers, the terribleness of tourists, and the fact that I like the way Uber makes me feel like a celebrity with a driver — I don’t think I’ll get one in the near future. 

My first car was a green Saturn Vue that was a few years old. I loved that thing. It was a great car even though the windows would leak when it rained on occasion!

What anyone in the early 2000s drove: the Chevy Impala 

I actually had an Audi A4 as my first car. It was aesthetically pleasing but doesn’t last long on gas. Nothing like my brand new Tesla

Maybe you got it when you were 16 or maybe 30. Doesn’t matter, you always remember your first. 

My parents, tired of driving me around, got me a Ford Festiva when I was 16. It was the cheapest car on the market (I think a new one was $6k) and it was everything to me. Manual transmission, automatic seatbelts, preset radios buttons… the height of luxury. 

One night we’re watching 20/20 and the story is about how dangerous the car is. The host (was it John Staussel??) said it should “come equipped with a funeral wreath.” 

I look at my dad in horror and he goes “Lynne,” which in the south has two or three syllables, depending on bourbon intake, “all the more reason to obey those speed limits.”

I drove the car for four years and covered it in stickers and good memories. And beat the odds— I made it out alive. 

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