I'm surprised at how many of you got or bought your own cars very young. I had my license at 16, but throughout high school my parents refused to give me or let me buy a car because they'd known too many teen drivers who had accidents. I could use my mother's car when she didn't need it, but they wanted more control than they'd have had if I had my own car. Then I went to college, and it was a non-issue because I lived on campus and could get into Boston easily without one. I finally got my first car when I was a senior in college and needed to student teach in a place I couldn't easily get public transportation to. It had been my parents', and they gave it to me as an early graduation present.
It was a blue Ford Taurus, a 1995 I think.
Unfortunately, I drove it less than 2 years before someone ran a stop sign, hit the side, and totaled it. The first car I bought myself was a dark red 1998 Toyota Corolla.
That was my car until 2006, when we got the Honda Odyssey minivan I drive now.