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Yesterday we asked: What does your first car say about you? Well, if you are what you eat, and you are what you read, one could make the assumption that you are what you drive. The only problem with this logic is that it's much easier to choose what we eat and what we read. And what we drive, especially for those just starting out, may just be a matter of happenstance.

I'd like to give a quick shout-out to my fellow drivers who rock their hand-me-down Hondas and Volvos with names like "The Beast." Your car—regardless of year, make or model—may not define who you are, but it will help build your character.

The great news is this year Wells Fargo will be giving one lucky student an opportunity to make a statement of their own—with a chance to win a 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid!

We call it the MPG3 Sweepstakes:

MPG = Miles per gallon
MP3 = iPod®

Here's the deal. When you open a Wells Fargo College Checking® account, you're automatically entered to win:

• Grand Prize: 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid with an 80 GB video iPod loaded with the top 25 college albums of 2007.
  
  
• First Runner-Up Prizes: Five winners will be awarded an 80 GB video iPod loaded with the top 25 college albums of 2007.
  
  
• Second Runner-Up Prizes: 20 winners will receive free music for one year to be awarded via 30 free downloads per month from eMusic.com .

You can also go straight to http://backstage.wellsfargo.com and enter on your own. (Maximum of two entries per person; see the complete rules here.)

So keep reading your choice of books (or those selected by your professors), eat well at your dining commons, and enter the Wells Fargo MPG3 Sweepstakes for a chance to win!

Staci

The Student LoanDown wants to know: What does your first car say about you?

My first car was a 1981 Honda Accord hatchback, pretty close to this . Turquoise blue with a racing stripe and an AM radio—hot. My mom bought it for me after my sophomore year in high school, but I had to wait until I completed Driver's Ed that summer before I could drive it. Twenty years later, I'm still driving a sensible Honda.

Pam's first car was far cooler than mine—a yellow and black 1956 Ford convertible with rolled leather interior. It was a 16th birthday present from her parents in 1963 . Gas cost 27 cents a gallon, so her weekly gas budget was all of $3.00. Once a convertible gal, always a convertible gal—Pam tools around in a Mercedes now.

Arriving during her sophomore year of college, Caroline's first car was a 1976 Caprice Classic in a lovely powder blue. According to Wikipedia , her car was 19½ ft (5.9 m) long—longer even than many modern full-size pickup  trucks, which probably explains why to this day she still pulls WAAAY too far into the garage and parking spaces.

Rachel's first car, which she shared with her mom, was really more of a bus: a 1987 Volkswagen Vanagon Westfalia. She'll never forget the look on the DMV guy's face when she showed up for her California driver's exam. But it was functional—it even had a kitchenette and slept four people. The family in "Little Miss Sunshine"  should've been so lucky!

A 1987 Oldsmobile Regency was Barbara's first set of wheels. She and two friends christened their boat-sized automobiles the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria  (Barbara's pretty sure she was the Pinta). Unfortunately, the Pinta had some health issues—fading paint and rust—so she didn't last long.

Why do we ask? Tomorrow we'll fill you in.