No car for me. My kids took turns using our 2008 Honda Accord and we had no complaints at all.
Junior year my dad got me a 1978 Plymouth Fury (it was 1991). It was the color of poo and took about 20 minutes to warm-up if I didn’t want it to stall. On the up-side, once it got going, it was like driving the world’s most comfy couch.
@cobrat. Is WCU West Chester? Maybe it’s changed a lot but that’s over 10,000 undergrads, which is why I struggled with the public LAC designation. But sure, West Chester is close to Newtown Sq, Paoli, Malvern, where you could see some serious cars.
I sold my 69 Corvair w/ push buttons in 1979 when I decided to hit the road before going into college (summer after high school). No vehicle during my first year at college. Then I think it was a 1975 Toyota Corona (this was 1982 or so). And then a boyfriend bought me a brand-new shiny Cherry Red Pontiac Fiero with the “lampshades” lol. A few months later he proposed and a few months after that I returned the car and the ring lol and downgraded again to a used car. My D drives a 2001 Toyota Solara convertible, cherry red w/ black top. She really wants it at school but we haven’t got it up there just yet.
'67 VW beetle for me. Loved it, but also loved it when I got a car with a functioning defroster and that didn’t require literally putting the pedal to the metal to get up a steep hill! For those who remember it, Earl Scheib was a big part of life at that time "paint your car any color for $99.99!!!
For the kids it was/is a '07 CR-V (bought used, 1st year that they had airbags on all sides- kids said that it was attempt to make sure that they were in bubblewrap when they went out into the world). Was used for HS carpool until now; going with rising senior collegekid to college this fall, b/c living in an off-campus apartment. Until now the ones in college have used feet, bikes and the zipcars on campus (really really smart move on zipcar’s part).
I don’t know what meaning we are supposed to ascribe to the presence of luxury cars at non-selective schools. Or highly selective ones for that matter. Is it somewhat “better” or at least “excusable” if the kid driving a luxury car is at an elite school? Guess what, there are rich people everywhere, from comm college to state u to Ivies. No new news here.
When my son goes to college we will employ my own made up “Yogi-ism.”
“Everybody has a car, so there’s no need for anybody to get a car.”
1973 Taxicab yellow Gremlin. Beat. That.
Later on, a rusting out 64 Mustang. Holes in the floor. Never had the money to restore it. We junked it when the timing chain went. 
No shortage of rich, international kids driving expensive cars in the Boston area. But its nothing new. I used to see the same thing 3 decades ago in my college days.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/10/for-some-foreign-students-driving-passion-for-luxury/eYkBwYnXa4ZRDmT2s3mhUO/story.html
Sometimes, I like to daydream about the cars I’d be driving or the beach house I’d have if I hadn’t paid for private prep school and private colleges. 
“1973 Taxicab yellow Gremlin. Beat. That.”
I think what the young-uns say these days is “Mic drop.” Well done!
I had a motorcycle at UNC which was convenient as just about every building had MC parking right in front of it. My friends use to joke that I mysteriously got a girlfriend with a car every winter.
I haven’t owned a car in 20 years so the D will be car-less in school.
1977 Ford Fiesta. That thing did like 300,000 miles or soemthing. Indestructible.
Kid heading to college has no car, or license for that matter. Hope she learns to hitch hike!
I had a used, yellow, early 70’s Ford LTD, which my parents bought for me because it was built like a tank. Not my favorite car. It was huge, hard to park, and unreliable.
Its name was “The Pimp Mobile”.
My three have handed around a 1999 Ford Explorer for the last ten years. She has gone to high school (and college from time to time). She is also built like a tank, but is beloved.
Her name is “Dora”.
I think you’re unfairly reappropriating pimp culture. I call microaggression 
^^ Then you must not like it whenever I post.
Yes. For some reason, many in the area regards WCU as a public LAC despite the huge size.
And from my own observations of the parking lots as of the early 2010s, it seemed more students drove high-end fancy cars including some retailing between a quarter to half-million(Lamborghinis) than was the case with the classmates at my LACs with cars.
As for the SUNY campuses, while many students there with cars may be barely upper-middle class driving used beater cars, there are small contingents at each of the campuses who come from multi-generationed American families from the well-off tri-state suburban areas who could easily drop the cash for brand-new cars retailing for $50k or sometimes even far greater.
When we were in college, back in the 70s, we were lucky to have $20 clunker bikes, definitely NO cars. My kids had $7 police auction clunker bikes.
In their last year of college, we shipped them 1992 vehicle (5 years younger than them), so they could get to interviews and work and medical appointments. D got a car that was a 2006. The criteria was one that was mechanically sound and worth paying $500 apiece to ship.
My dad had me but my brother in med school in SF a car for his internship and residency in 1983. I got him a new Honda Civic that had NO carpet, no A/C (it was for SF). It worked fine and when he moved back to HNL after using it for many years, he got back the purchase price. My brother has hassled me since about getting SUCH a stripped down car, but I followed dad’s instructions and dad was paying.
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@Dolemite, are you sure it wasn’t bicycle and scooter parking? hehe
^^ You had to buy a MC permit and park in designated MC spaces. Scooters count as motorcycles by law.