first car?

Toyota Corolla's are very reliable cars, especially for your first! As are the old ford lasers ...

I'm pretty sure AA magazine named the corolla as the best first car once ...

I had a '92 for laser for my first car, it had already clocked up 230,000kms when my grandparents got it for me. I only upgraded when I was preggers with my boy because I wanted a newish car that was going to be more reliable and not run the risk of packing up on me. I bought a 2002 Holden Astra and as much as I love my baby (the car!) ...it's been such a PITA because of the hatch aspect, wouldn't fit my first two (bulky) prams in the boot and when I bought his highchair etc I had to get them delivered because again it wouldn't fit.

Just take into consideration that you have to have a carseat in there, and if you need to pick any kind of bulky item up from somewhere it may not fit...

Good luck :)

I have a 2001 Toyota Corolla stationwagon, I know they are a reliable and cheap to run vehicle! They are also cheap as chips to insure.

I don't think you can go wrong with a Toyota!

I really suggest you go for a toyota over anything, they are the most reliable car ever, also the cheapest to fix.

Everything is so easy to get to in the engine bay and there is so much room in there, you can practically climb inthere with it, not that you will be fixing it yourself, but for mechanics if anything did go wrong, they dont have to pull half the engine out just to get to something!

If its cheap and you need a car, i suggest buying it. Make sure you check for rust, and an knocking sounds while driving, especially turning.

Look where the car normally parks at her house and see if you can see oil on the ground. Thats a bad thing.

Good luck chick!

chonni wrote: my friend is selling her toyota carolla hatchback and i was woundring if anyone has any good experiances with this car im thinking of buying it for my first car warent dies o may next year it was made in 1990 and its done 15500km its an auto. we are taking it for a test drive today,

I would say with those amounts of kms and the year of the car that it has gone round the clock and started again. some cars just keep going and going. sometimes its not the engine you have to worry about but the body around it - rust etc.....

I had a Toyota starlet 1986- its engine would of kept going and going but the body was bit by bit the body was falling apart around it LOL - but I loved it - it was my first car

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Buggar - i sold mine for like $300 LOL

good stuff
toyota corollas are great, and they live for ages. Our 88 one we sold with about 500 thou km on the clock and it was mint still

Aww memories I learnt to drive in a corolla they are great wee cars. Yay for a first car

Hehe Kandice my Dad loves Toyotas too. Ben says exactly the same thing about Holdens lol