I’m with you. I bought my first new car when I was 43 and it was an econobox.
I grew up in the 50's. We lived in Rochester, NY, and never had a car until I bought my first one, long after I had left home. My second oldest sister was the first one to buy a car in the family. She always liked Chevy's. The last car she had in her life was a Toyota, which she leased, and she didn't get to drive it for long, because she was diagnosed with lung cancer. I was the one who had to return the car to the dealer after she had passed. My only brother, a Vietnam veteran, bought his first car, once he was discharged from the Army in 1968. It was a red Chevy Camaro. And he drove Chevy's until he passed too.