Top Ten College Cars Page 2

By Samuel Spencer

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If your goal in college is to drink as much beer as possible and score as many chicks as possible, chances are you drive a used Mustang. If you want even more girls, you probably have a GT with an annoyingly loud exhaust slapped on the back. It is all about showing off and making impressions. At least, that's what those guys think. 

5. Chevrolet Cavalier/Pontiac Sunfire

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Economical and reliable. Those both can describe these two cars pretty well. Stylish and quality do not. What earned these cars their spot on this list is the fact that so many people will look back on their college years and laugh saying "That Cavalier (or Sunfire) I drove in my college days was just AWFUL! It was the worst car I ever owned!" It has made its name on this list by embarrassing just about everyone that had to drive one in their college days. 

4. Dodge Neon

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Dodge's equivalent to the Sunfire/Cavalier. 

3.  Volvo 240

Volvo 240

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I adore these cars. Even when they are rusted in half and the wheels are about to fall off they still keep going. They came in the station wagon variant which covers the practicality requirement for those road trips college students love to go on. Some of the wagons had the "tail gunner" seat which means the DD can carry six drunkards with them. There was even a diesel version which covers the economical part, especially if its owner gets a great deal on some vegetable oil. They were safe for their time as well. The best part? You can find them for next to nothing if you look hard enough. 

2. Ford Taurus

1989 Ford Taurus

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Like the Honda Accord, the Taurus has found its way on to college campuses because of the hand-me-down effect. Like the Neon, Cavalier, and Sunfire, it can be a bit embarrassing when you tell someone "I drive a Ford Taurus." That is a double win for a great college car. If you get a station wagon version you can carry enough beer to inebriate your entire block for a week. The big backseat is just icing on the cake, if you know what I mean. 

1. Honda Civic

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Of course this isn't a surprise. It wasn't supposed to be. The fact of the matter is this: there is a Civic for just about everyone. If your family is wealthy, you take a brand new Civic to Harvard. If you are pinching pennies, you pick up a late eighties Civic with 200,000 miles on the clock and pray it still starts in the morning. If you wear Hollister polo shirts with the collar popped you pick up a 1999 Civic Si and bolt on an obnoxiously huge rear muffler. Each version still carries the practicality, reliability, economy and sometimes even style that college students expect in a car. That means it checks every box. For the college student, the Civic wins.