There is a fb page called “SUNY Cars” that appears to have pictures of some simply amazingly beautiful student cars including Maserati’s, Mercedes, and other exotic and expensive cars. If you are a student with a car at college, what are you driving? If you are a parent, what did you drive? Anyone else have a used Gremlin parked outside their dorm?
1984 Horizon.Manual without power brakes or air. Splurged on the AM radio.
Both my daughters had 1992 Buick LeSabres. Both cars bit the dust last year, a few months after D2 graduated from college.
‘83 Chevy Corsica with 120k miles, no air conditioning, and no rear passenger window (lil’ duct tape and cardboard did the trick).
Car? Hmm, no. I did have a nice bike, two feet, and sometimes took a bus for my transportation.
None.
Also, when I was an undergrad, my LAC/local town had a policy prohibiting freshman/sophomores from bringing cars to campus/within town limits unless they were local town residents so most students had to wait until junior year to bring their cars to campus.
One international classmate who came from a well-off family in South America jumped for joy at the start of our third year and he made a bee-line for the nearest car dealership and paid for a brand Mercedes or BMW(Forgot which) in cash. He gained a lot of new “friends” that year. 
There was another classmate who brought over the BMW his well-off professional parents bought for him as a HS graduation present once he started his third year. He was one of the students who mentioned the restrictions and how he had to wait until his junior year to bring it onto campus/town limits.
An '81 Mustang. For the ill informed, that was not a good year for the Mustang. 
I don’t remember seeing flashy cars in the student lots in college but I am amazed at what I see in HS lots these days.
@ cobrat, based on the pics on that page, your international friend would not have had the best car in the lot if that were today. Not by a long shot. Was that also a public school?
@Sportsman88, We live in a middle to upper middle class area where some kids do drive to school in reasonably nice cars but nothing like those in the pics. I don’t think there is a public high school in the US where there is that level of “nice car”!
1972 VA Beetle. I loved that car.
^^ I went to a high school (1975) where many of the students had very nice cars - BMWs, Volvos, MG’s. Rich area. I, of course, got to ride the big yellow limo or, if my mother wasn’t using it, a family station wagon. The cars in that school parking lot are still
At one private school my kids went to, I pretty much had the worst car in the parking lot as I dropped them off every morning, a 10+ year old Honda. The kids had luxury cars, although I’m sure some of them were hand me downs from their parents. Hand me down Lexus, Jags, BMWs.
When I went to school - I had the best car on campus - a 1959 Triumph TR-3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_TR3 - but that was in the 70’s I use to have a picture of me in the car wearing a Nehru Jacket. 
Our oldest kids had a 7 year old used Plymouth Breeze that got paid for in cash by oldest, driven to grad school in another state, then handed down from big bro to little sister who used it to go to co-op job - car lasted 8 years then just blew up one day. Youngest does not have a car but will buy one after he graduates in a couple of weeks.
If I had saved that TR-3 - it would be the best car on campus - not counting the Tesla I have seen driving around…
@ nugraddad And not counting those on the “SUNY car” fb pages. The TR-3 is a great car for sure. But there are about 10 of them for sale on one site and they go for around 30-40K in contrast to the 100K cars on that site,
No. A private LAC(Oberlin). They really stood out as most students either didn’t have cars or brought whatever used/hand me down car was available and the campus culture was one where displaying fancy brand name items…including cars wasn’t the thing to do.
Ironically, one older cousin who is a co-founder of an internet startup which has been thriving for the last decade or so still drives an old Honda from his PhD grad student days in the ‘90’s despite having enough to get himself a fancy car as desired. However, fancy new cars aren’t his thing and he enjoys keeping that old Honda up and running as a hobby despite his parents’ wishes he’d get himself a newer car for safety and other reasons…even though he’s a fully qualified car mechanic.
Car??
I have a CharlieCard and a skateboard. I don’t know anyone with a car on campus.
A CharlieCard? What no Lamborghini?
@cobrat, wow paying for Oberlin and still having money left for fancy cars is impressive compared to just paying SUNY. But, then some students these days may have had to pay for credentials although hopefully that will stop.
It’s still a big day when all the AFA finish their third year and get a car. Used to be all corvettes, then trucks, now a little more variety.
That was ~2 decades ago and both students came from well-off families.
International South American classmate’s parents ran a successful import/export business and the older classmate with the BMW has professional parents(medical doctor and senior fortune 500 exec) and living in a wealthy NYC area tri-state area suburb.
Then again, annual tuition back then was ~$27k/year including room and board.
If this is a fantasy wish exercise and the car could be had without any hassles or expense…a top choice would be a Lamborghini Coutach customized with 4 doors, flight capability, computerized control systems with manual backup, powered completely by super-efficient solar cells with battery backup with 1000 mile minimum range, and the capability of hauling several tons of stuff.
Incidentally, when I was helping an older college friend clean out his parents’ house in the Philly area, I did spot 2 18 year olds driving around Lambroghinis close to a public LAC. According to the friend who was familiar with that public LAC as one parent was a faculty member there, it wasn’t unusual for undergrads there to be sporting such fancy cars.
“one parent was a faculty member there”. The other parent must have been a well known movie star.
The cars in the pics don’t look like they have flight capabilities. I think the students have to fly to the US and then pick up their lamborghinis.
The friend whose parent was a faculty member wasn’t one of the 18 year olds with the Lambroginis.
Just made that point to show the friend and the parent are familiar with many of the public LAC’s undergrads and the cars they drive around the college campus/vicinity. Even though it’s a public U…there are many wealthy students there.