Subject: RE: What was your first car? What was your favorite car (that you owned/leased)?Since I'm 27, was in school from age 5 to age 25, my cars have not been spectacular. My first car: a tealy-green 1991 Dodge Spirit. An old company car that my dad bought for cheap and then had painted. Why teal-green, I will never know, except that it was the 90's. Teal was big. Drove it in high school until I went to college, where we couldn't have a car (no student parking lot at my 2-building college, and really no need for a car in Boston). My grad school car: a red 1990 Dodge Spirit. (see a trend here? Yeah - dad is from Michigan - we only drive Chryslers/Fords) Owned by my late g-ma, who literally only took it to the store and church. Had 60,000 miles on it when I acquired it in 2004. Current car - black 2006 Chrysler Sebring. Was given to me as a graduation gift in May of '06. To be fair, my dad's dad and my uncle both work/worked for Ford, so for anything in the Ford/Daimler Chrysler family, we get a discount. That includes Mercedes and Volvo, but my dad limited my car choices by the dollar amount. I REALLY wanted a red mustang coupe, but the insurance on those things is killer...and I am paying the insurance. If I had to buy my own car (which I had every intention of doing until my dad said "I'm buying you a car"- I'm really not a spoiled brat, but in my book, you don't say no to your father, regardless - I've never asked him for anything), I wouldn't have gone Chrysler or Ford, necessarily. But it does include Volvo, and I do like them. And I will still be able to use the family discount...  |