First attempt - Mk3 Ford Escort XR3i in black - 7 driving lessons - result: failed
Second attempt - Opel Manta GTE in white - 3 driving lessons - result: passed
For the first attempt the assessor thought I was driving to fast inner city and to slow out of city (despite me thinking that I was doing exactly 50 and 80 km/h as per the road signs). Second time around, same assessor, same student, but a different car. It was winter, proper winter (winter between 1985-86 in Denmark was very cold and white) and after doing a u-turn at a light signal, only a few hundred meters from the Police station where the driving test would normally end, I found myself driving on the dedicated cycling path. I โdiscretelyโ corrected the matter and back on the road again the assessor said that I could just park the Manta nose-in at the Police station, a sign that you would normally have failed the test! And then he said something like โcongratulations, as Iโm sure you have a feeling yourself, it went much better this time aroundโ. No reason to argue with a Police man who just told you that you passed the the driving test, more so as my dad was waiting for me at the Police station in my โnewโ Ford Escort Mk2, which I had already bought months before (in anticipation that I would pass the test the first time around). Obviously I was driving home from the Police station, clearly remembering feeling that an almost 10 year old 1.3L Escort felt a bit lame compared to a new 2.0L Manta GTE ๐