Vehicles you rode in the back seat as a kid

Mostly my mom’s old car, a silver 2000 Nissan Altima GXE. She had that car from around when I was in kindergarten (mid-late 2001) to when I was in 10th grade or so.
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There was also the car she had before that, a green Kia Sephia, but she got rid of that for being a piece of garbage. It’s also the only car she ever bought brand new.

The other really big one was my dad’s old SUV, a white 2001 Dodge Durango Sport. We went on several long drives in that thing, and it also holds the distinction of being the first road legal vehicle I ever drove. He was originally going to give it to me as my first car, but it spent a lot of time down in Virginia Beach and had seen flooding. It took quite a while (much like my mom’s Altima, he had the Durango for about 12 years, buying it I’m guessing CPO when it was only 2 or 3 years old).

After that, he got a black 2010 Volkswagen Tiguan that he had until a couple years ago. This was what I took my driving test in.
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As for other cars beyond my parents’, there are a few. The most frequent probably being a gold (or bronze) 2003 Honda Pilot belonging to a close friend’s mom, who also happens to be one of my mom’s closest friends. So we spent a lot of time at their house and vice versa, and she’d usually drive us since she had the only car large enough to fit all of us kids in it (the Durango didn’t have a 3rd row on the sport trim, plus even if it did, my dad usually had a bunch of tools back there).

This same friend’s dad had a silver Chrysler PT Cruiser (don’t remember the year, just that it was an early model) that I also spent lots of time in.
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The only relative(other than my parents)'s car that I spent enough time in to specifically recall is my uncle’s old black 2005 Mercedes-Benz CLK320 Convertible. My dad’s side mostly lives within driving distance, and my mom’s side apart from him for the most part all live in very close proximity to one another. And he lives down in Miami, Florida, so we got the novelty of driving around south Florida with the top down whenever we visited, which was at least once every other year. I’ve traveled to Miami more than any other city except Peoria, Illinois, where most of my mom’s side lives. And he had that car for around 10 years. He was even planning on giving it to me around the time my old Chevy Silverado had some transmission problems, only for the transmission on it to outright fail (trans fluid/coolant cross-contamination. Common failure on those cars).

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