Good god, I'm about to take the tone of this thread down a notch or two…
My dads first car after giving up bikes because I was born:
When that inevitably rusted away, then came the hateful Corolla…
When that inevitably rusted away (I used to get told off for picking chunks of the bonnet off), my dad went back to good old leyland with a Rover 400 (which one day I would inherit as my first car)…
There was one of those bubble shaped Rover 200s, a VW Caddy (the current one) and eventually a Seat Altea so it got better eventually.