Taylor Swift drove her parents’ massive Hummer SUV as her first car in Tennessee and it all went so wrong
Published on Oct 03, 2025 at 2:08 PM (UTC+4)
by Daisy Edwards
Last updated on Oct 03, 2025 at 2:08 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
Before she became the global superstar she is today, Taylor Swift drove her parents’ massive Hummer SUV as her first car in Tennessee, and it all went so wrong so quickly.
Back when Taylor first got her driver’s permit, unlike a lot of people who choose their first cars to be little runabouts, Swift got a hand-me-down from her parents as her first car.
She was thrown in the deep end with her parents’ massive Hummer H2, which comes with an astonishing 325 horsepower for a first car.
The singer herself will be the first to admit that she wasn’t good at driving the Hummer SUV, but when she sang, “I asked the traffic lights if it’ll be alright, they said I don’t know,” we didn’t know it was literal.
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Taylor Swift drove her parents’ massive Hummer SUV as her first car
When it comes to choosing your first car, normally, you find yourself opting for a humble little runaround or receiving a small hand-me-down to start with.
This was certainly not the case for the global singing celeb, Taylor Swift, who, long before she was living ‘The Life of a Showgirl’, was given her parents’ car as her first car.
The only problem? Her parents owned a beast in the form of a Hummer H2 – a 6,400-lb monster SUV that was nearly 16 feet long and almost seven feet wide.
Instead of easing into driving with something small and forgiving, Taylor was thrown into the deep end with her first ‘Getaway Car‘ coming with a 6-liter V8 engine pushing out a whopping 325 horsepower.
It very quickly all went so wrong
The singer herself has admitted that she isn’t a natural behind the wheel; she failed her driver’s test not once, not twice, but three times before finally passing.
Even after passing her test, she admitted that she saw stop signs as more of a suggestion because the Hummer was so big.
In an interview, she said, “I can drive in a straight line, but I don’t like stop signs. If I’m driving, I can’t stop her.”
Turns out that celebrities are just like us, and have relatable driving fails like the best of us.
Maybe when she sang about hitting the brakes too soon and 20 stitches in a hospital room, we should’ve seen it as what it was – a warning about her driving capabilities.
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