I personally can't see any holes in that idea.
Emergency stops?
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only 4 lawns to the gallon?
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Not a problem - it only does 2mph.
Just noticed though - it's gearless - might me a problem.
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My son passed his test when nearly 18 and we moved house meaning he needed a car to get to school.
We provided a 1.0 Corsa and a dose of advice, first time out alone he went over a crest just before a bend and slid off sideways to the right (narrow single carriageway, NSL, dry, light - no excuses). Missed substantial tree by a few feet. They are taught to drive AT THE INDICATED SPEED LIMIT!
Took him back to scene and asked him what he would have done if there had been pedestrians/horse/other car on the piece of road he slid across, or if he had hit the tree! and stressed that the limit is the maximum, not how fast you go - I think he drives a little more maturely now.
Whatever you put him in it will be fast enough for him to kill himself, or someone else.
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I've just spoken to him and he has been told me that as of the end of this month he will be limited to 1100 cc.
Do not know where he got this info but obviously wrong.
As an aside ,i passed my tractor test when i was sixteen and was sent a full license, when the bosses wife studied it she thought that tractors were in a different catagory meaning as i was the only one who had passed my tractor test i was the only one on the farm who could drive them, i do not think she was right but studying the "what you can and cannot drive" am not sure.
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Glen - that rumour was going around when I was learning. Along with the "driving age being put up to age 21".
As (I think it was Ian) said, young lads can kill themselves in a Matiz. I did some pretty stupid things in a Fiesta. Besides which, there aren't a million cars in the world that are under 1100 cc anyway.
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Exactly what we thought, could not not think of many cars that were under 1100cc and if it was true imagine how the price of these cars would rise.
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I've just spoken to him and he has been told me that as of the end of this month he will be limited to 1100 cc. Do not know where he got this info but obviously wrong.
It seems that every year there's a new 'scare' story amongst the 17 year olds, seems this year's is a size limit a la motorcycle learners, have heard the same from a couple of my son's friends. Last year's 'scare' was that from 1st June everyone was going to have to be over 18 to drive anything. That was just as groundless but incensed a few more of his mates.
Might be some sense in either suggestion but certainly neither are in the pipeline at the moment, from what I can determine, anyway.
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I've just spoken to him and he has been told me that as of the end of this month he will be limited to 1100 cc.>>
Probably based on whatis realistic to insure at that age.
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My mates parents (farming family) were of the opinion that their sons were bound to crash within the first 2 years of driving, so better to have a safe car to do it in.
So he and his 2 brothers were all provided with old Volvo 240 estates when they passed their tests. And I know 2 of them crashed, possibly the third brother too.
Dont know how you'd get on insuring one of those for him nowadays though, and he wouldnt want to drive one!
I managed to write off an MG Metro when I was 19. The experience slowed my driving down and it took me a while to get my confidence back on wet roads.
It might be worth taking your son for some skid pan training?
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My mate's folks had teh same idea, and bought him a Dyane 6, on the basis that surely he wouldn't crash that.
Big mistake........
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