AutoGuide Answers: What Was Your First Car? - AutoGuide.com
com editors drove as their first cars. Did you have a memorable first car. 2003 Oldsmobile Alero – Mike Schlee, Road Test Editor: “My first car ever was an Oldsmobile and no, it wasn’t a hand me down – I bought it new … Please stop laughing. Though it didn’t have power windows, power mirrors or a power seat, I did splurge on a package that included 15-inch alloy wheels and a leather wrapped steering wheel. Yup, I owned a manual Oldsmobile. Under the hood sat a 2. 2-liter four-cylinder Ecotec engine that was supposed to make 145 hp. I say supposed to because my car was widely regarded as a factory freak making far more power. Anyway, the car was capable of 15. 2-second quarter-mile times, which was faster than many sport compacts of its time. 2004 VW Beetle Convertible TURBO – Jodi Lai, Managing Editor: “My dad worked at a dealership, so we always had different cars on our driveway. We’d just drive whatever cars he had sitting on the lot until they sold, and I drove so many of them that I don’t even remember which one was truly first. But the car I remember driving the most regularly, one that we actually owned, was a new 2004 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible Turbo. Source: www.autoguide.com
