All of our stories of becoming car enthusiasts are a little different and this idea has prompted today’s question. What was the very first car you remember?
There’s a good chance that the first car that springs to mind is a vehicle or vehicles that your parents or another family member had. For me, it was the Mitsubishi Magna my mom owned, the Honda Accord my dad drove, and the Toyota Celica my auntie had. However, it isn’t any of these cars that really made an impression on me. Instead, it was a car owned by someone who lived on my street as a child. This is the first car I really remember.
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It was a E46-generation BMW M3. I was too young to know or even care about what model year it was but what I do remember is that it was painted in Phoenix Yellow, one of the most iconic colors offered for the E46 M3. I lived in a middle-class neighborhood and seeing a German car in the local area was a rare sight in itself, let alone seeing what was one of the finest performance cars on sale at the time.
Beyond the paint, one other aspect of the M3 also stood out to me. The speedometer. I can remember the moment I glanced into the driver’s window for the first time and there it was, the first speedometer I had ever seen that went all the way to 300 km/h (186 mph). As a youngster, that blew my mind.
So, with all that being said, what is the first car you remember?
My Auntie’s Toyota Celica also stands out