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dave_2A_2.25Turbo:
We gave our daughter the Clio when she passed her test last year (18) and insured it for her - £990.
This year, with a years experience and a years no-claims, she's looking at £500
TDi90:
MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL.
heres me, driving a land rover defender not exceeding 55 mph, in her, paying insurance through the roof £1300 (with pass plus) am 18, just so i can go playing and have one thing that means one of the most things in my life - my land rover. fair enough, i have to pay some for insurance, i accept that, but because of some F****** T***s like this guy, i am paying £1300 and the insurers think "oh, they are all this bad"
i hope he realises and goes and buys some crappy heap of S**T that blows up with him in it. :evil:
rant over. - sorry, got loads of school work whitch i dont want to be doing COS IM ON Half term.
Evilgoat:
Saw this a few years ago with a friend. Passed his test, dayya got him a really nice Skyling GTR34. Playing silly sods he drifted off a local roundabout and wrapped it sideways round a lamp-post.
Not being able to afford to replace the car daddy bailed him out...
B reg Fiesta .9 litre made mainly of rust and he was told to insure it :)
Jimbo:
My old man did 25+ years in the Ambulance Service, ending up being a high-ranking officer, but still doing operational duties (major RTA's etc). Some of the stories he has to tell are mind-numbing - but (thankfully) neither me nor my llittle bro have ever had a serious accident, and have always driven sensibly - I reckon it's down to Dads experiences.
My idea to stop this carnage is simple - when you pass your test, regardless of how old you are, you should only be allowed to buy/drive/have given to you a 1.0l car, not supercharged or turbo'd, just a bog-standard, 1.0l 55hp old banger. Then once you've done 2 years of accident, and incident free driving you can 'upgrade' to something slightly bigger (1.4l...... :twisted: )
Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against fast cars, I'd love a supercharged rangie myself, but it's such a waste of life when sme inexperienced 19yr old buys himself (or gets given) a Scooby or equally fast car and then kills themselves - or worst still, kills a passenger or driver in another car.
TDi90:
--- Quote from: "Jimbo" ---My idea to stop this carnage is simple - when you pass your test, regardless of how old you are, you should only be allowed to buy/drive/have given to you a 1.0l car, not supercharged or turbo'd, just a bog-standard, 1.0l 55hp old banger. Then once you've done 2 years of accident, and incident free driving you can 'upgrade' to something slightly bigger (1.4l...... :twisted: )
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absolute utter rubish.
how am i supposed to run my 200TDi defender if that rule came in?
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