When did you get your first NEW car? What kind was it?

Our first new car was a Mercedes 240D.  This didn't happen until we had been married over ten years.  There were three exciting moments in this decision to get a new car.  First when we ordered it at the local dealership.  Selecting the color and the optional equipment.  That took a while since this was completely new to us having never purchased a new car, we were used to finding a used car and accepting whatever equipment the original purchaser had chosen.
The second exciting moment was going to Germany to pick it up at the factory.  That involved a family vacation with the children for a six week stay in the house that my husband had grown up in.  This was a fairytale for the children to fly for the first time, to leave the country for the first time, and to stay in a three hundred year old farmhouse which still had the attached barn inhabited with cows.  They could feed the cows, pigs and chickens.  We gathered hay and stored it in the haybarn.  The children were introduced to a gravity toilet(we used to call it an outhouse).  They learned about composting before it was popular here.  Finally, they rode on a German train to the south of Germany to the Mercedes factory.  There we learned that there were separate classes on the train something we don't know here.  From the train, we took a taxi to the factory where the car was waiting.  After some paper signing, we all loaded in the brand new car and headed back to the house where we were the guests of my husband's aunts and uncle.  They weren't expecting us to be back so soon and frankly neither was I.  I was hoping for a night in a hotel and a hot shower and to give the women a rest from having us underfoot.  My husband, ever the frugal one, drove like a German(here we would say maniac) to get back home.
At the end of our vacation, my husband and his sister drove the car to Bremerhaven to be loaded on a ship and delivered to the US.
Several weeks after we returned, we went and picked it up.  It was a great car and we drove it for thirteen or fourteen years and put on almost three hundred thousand miles before we sold it.
We have purchased new cars since then but none were as exciting as the first one.