Don't know how I missed this topic. Anyway, here goes.....
Can't say any of them are mine. Father bought all the cars
First Car : 14th November 1987- Fiat. The quintessential car in every indian family......lol..everyone at some point of time has owned this car. Seeing my keen interest in cars, my father had taught me the Fiat gears when I was about 4yrs old. Me being an ignorant kid, almost killed myself because of that. Fiat was with us for a jolly good 8 years during which it was painted twice over (dark grey & darker shade of navy blue) Rusting was a common issue & this car also reqd tin work. I never drove this car & infact till date have never driven a fiat.
2nd Car : Maruti 800- Another car that almost everybody has owned. This one was bought on 1st April 1995(Gudi Padwa). Remained with us till Aug '02. Like most maruti's it didn't give much trouble except for the engine overhaul at 50k kms. But later it had become very rattly & I was going mad with the noises. I learnt to drive on this very car sometime in Dec '95. Wouldn't say I loved it to death or anything....was good enough but was feeling very very elated just when we'd bought the car. Felt so smooth in comparison to the Fiat, & speeds like 80 kmph were easily attainable.
3rd car: 1st June 2002- On a certain month end of May my father called me asking which model of Honda we wanted to buy from Ichibaan Honda ! I'd been pestering my father for about 2years to sell of the 800 & get a new car & since then I'd set my eyes on the Honda City..although 1.3 since that I thought was more within the range. Exactly 3years ago, my father decided to get into full time private practice & decided that he needed a better car...so there was nothing much to choose really. I'd been wanting the Honda for soooo many years, although my mom & sister like the lancer more. I jus didn't want to buy the lancer 'coz it was slow! So, one evening, we went to Linkway Honda to see the car.. I was pretty sure that we'd book the 1.3 but my uncle who lived in Abu Dhabi & was working with Nissan, told my father to go for 1.5. I couldn't be anymore happier ! The dealership manager along with a sales lady came to our house & did the necessary paper work & so finally we'd booked the car. Got the car on 1st June '02 & it has been the apple of my eye since. NO one is allowed to drive it except my father (who doesn't drive it ) Parents willing, I plan to keep this car for another 5-6years atleast & then make it mine....hehehe
4th Car: 4th Aug '02-Indica DLS- So my father decided, he wanted to buy another car..I was in heaven! There I had to pester my father to change our 800 which had been with us for around 8years & now my father wanted to buy another car in a couple of months...my joy knew no bounds ! But I knew, that my father would be logging in good amount of kms so we decided to buy the Indica. Was with us till Dec '04. Didn't give much problems except the silencer thing..its just useless. Other than that the car was okay, used to give good mileage earlier on but later it had dropped to around 11ish.
5th Car : 7th Sept '04- Accent CRDi- By this time, most of T-BHPian's would know how much of a dilemma I was in to decide between the Octy & the CRDi. But then the Emi's & servicing costs deterred us from buying the octy. Plus my father isn't so comfortable driving such huge cars...he gets scared to drive even the Honda. Its been around 9months of owning this car & it has been serving well w/o any hiccups.
The only means of transportation that I could call my own was my Hercules MTB bike...used it in school...
Last edited by RJK : 4th May 2005 at 15:40.
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