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Post by michael on Nov 28, 2017 11:40:00 GMT
I learnt to drive in Peugeot 205 and many of my contemporaries learnt and passed their test in similar sized cars. I'm still surprised that so many driving instructors use larger cars like a Focus. Anyway, I now see that the test has changed to include components such as having to adjust heater controls on the move: www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-uk-driving-test-starts-4-decemberI think this is a good idea but I do wonder how much it'll affect the choice in driving instructor car - I wouldn't be wanting to play around with a touch screen menu to access the heater control on the move. |
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Post by johnc on Nov 28, 2017 11:53:41 GMT
Just use something bog standard where all the controls are analogue.
I passed my test in a Beetle which was mine and bought before I sat my test - they don't come much more analogue than that! |
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Post by PetrolEd on Nov 28, 2017 12:38:24 GMT
My driving instructors had everything from a Nissan Micra, 205 XLD, Polo, Metro and eventually passed my test in a Corsa. I'm amazed that assortment didn't put me off for life.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Nov 28, 2017 12:48:15 GMT
My driving instructors had everything from a Nissan Micra, 205 XLD, Polo, Metro and eventually passed my test in a Corsa. I'm amazed that assortment didn't put me off for life. How many instructors did you get through?! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 12:54:45 GMT
Land Rover 110. Not much competition for being basic.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 28, 2017 13:07:33 GMT
I remember having to crank the starting handle before I took the test..
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Post by michael on Nov 28, 2017 13:10:01 GMT
I hope the sat-nav element includes something on where to position it. I observed a car along side me in traffic recently that had a sat nav, mobile phone and dashcam attached to the screen - the satnan and phone vying for position above the wheel.
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Post by Big Blue on Nov 28, 2017 13:16:08 GMT
Metro for me, although I passed in a Fiesta Mk 2 as there was some issue with the Metro, related to it being shite, I think.
Autonomous drive Volvo or Tesla would be my choice currently if I were sitting the test.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Nov 28, 2017 13:34:53 GMT
MG Metro for mist of the lessons and the test, with a brief stint in a Metro GT-A, no less, whikst the MG was in for accident repairs.
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 28, 2017 14:04:41 GMT
I learned to drive in a Fiesta Mk 1 and an Escort of same vintage (and both were red, IIRC standard BSM colour at that time), passed the test in the Escort
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 28, 2017 14:16:24 GMT
I learned to drive in a Fiesta Mk 1 and an Escort of same vintage (and both were red, IIRC standard BSM colour at that time), passed the test in the Escort Bet it was nice and clean...  |
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Post by grampa on Nov 28, 2017 14:28:29 GMT
A brand new 'S' reg Allegro - my instructor bought a new one every year and the R reg I started learning in was replaced shortly before my test.
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Post by PetrolEd on Nov 28, 2017 16:26:48 GMT
My driving instructors had everything from a Nissan Micra, 205 XLD, Polo, Metro and eventually passed my test in a Corsa. I'm amazed that assortment didn't put me off for life. How many instructors did you get through?! Failed my test twice!
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Post by Andy C on Nov 28, 2017 17:26:29 GMT
Honda jazz for me
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 17:44:45 GMT
One of my other test vehicles was brilliant for parking, not much visibility but anything in the way got moved, quick. Any colour you like as long as it's green.
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Post by Nelson on Nov 28, 2017 17:44:55 GMT
I had some lessons with my Dad in his A-reg Cavalier 1.6L (A387 FJU if i'm not mistaken) before some lessons with British School of Motoring (BSM) in a magnolia coloured Metro Van den Plas with italic VDP scroll on the side.
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 28, 2017 19:30:26 GMT
My parents deliberately sought out a driving instructor with a bigger car for me to learn on because my mother had a Volvo 940 Estate and my father had a Range Rover LSE, and therefore they firmly thought it would be counterproductive to have me learn to drive something tiddly since they had no intention of getting me my own car.
This meant I learned to drive in a K-reg Proton saloon - one of those ones which was based on a boxy old 1980s Lancer.
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Post by Boxer6 on Nov 28, 2017 20:03:44 GMT
MG Metro for mist of the lessons and the test, with a brief stint in a Metro GT-A, no less, whikst the MG was in for accident repairs. Did those cars influence your own choice of "learner-mobile" in the Punto Abarth? (I think that's what you had, wasn't it?) One of my other test vehicles was brilliant for parking, not much visibility but anything in the way got moved, quick. Any colour you like as long as it's green. Chieftain or Challenger? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 20:11:48 GMT
Either, they both tended to 'compress' problems like parking spaces.
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Post by LandieMark on Nov 28, 2017 20:25:42 GMT
Nova 1.2 Merit. Didn’t even have a rear wiper.
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 28, 2017 20:36:34 GMT
Nova 1.2 Merit. Didn’t even have a rear wiper. Ha! My grandmother had a white G-reg Nova 1.4L 5dr that got passed down for us kids to use when granny upgraded to a Corsa not long after I learnt to drive. It did have a rear wiper, plus smart wheel-trims, a radio and a pin-stripe, but that was your lot. No PAS, windy windows, a gearlever that could have doubled as a wand...
It was quite spritely with the 1.4 as I recall.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 20:44:35 GMT
Nova 1.2 Merit. Didn’t even have a rear wiper. ClubSport spec  |
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Post by Ben on Nov 29, 2017 15:01:37 GMT
Mine was a Mitsubishi Lancer, basically a newer version of the one I had.
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Post by Tim on Dec 5, 2017 14:02:56 GMT
1986 Nissan Micra 1.0L
If the instructor was feeling nasty he would make us (most of the people at school used the same guy) do the hill start on the steepest one in town - the Micra couldn't take 2nd gear until the hill started to flatten out!
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