Cheap 17 year old lad car (for me)

My first car at 21 was a Suzuki Alto. £800 insurance but easy to fix and skinny little tyres. I think I came from the James May School of having fun, but it was a brilliant little tin can to chuck about and cheap to maintain!
 
To be fair, £1k - £1.5k is pretty decent for a new young driver these days. I'm sure a couple of grand is the norm for most young drivers.

Thank god I passed/started driving before they bought in black boxes. Could not be bothered with it.
 
Cheap, lowest spec car you can find for your first motor and don't touch it! You'd be surprised the fun you could have in an eco box with ya mates. ;) and it's a great way to learn. Build them NCB for a few years then get something tidy if you like to have nice car! :D I went from a 1.2 Astra to an RS Turbo in 2 years (back in the day ;)).
 
SC0TTRS said:
Cheap, lowest spec car you can find for your first motor and don't touch it! You'd be surprised the fun you could have in an eco box with ya mates. ;) and it's a great way to learn. Build them NCB for a few years then get something tidy if you like to have nice car! :D I went from a 1.2 Astra to an RS Turbo in 2 years (back in the day ;)).
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How times change :p
 
If I were 17 now I wouldn't even bother. It's sad but gone are the days when you could affordably drive around as a 17YO in your hot hatches/mods etc. It's like buying your first house, unless your parents foot the (insurance) bill or front then good luck!

Just face it you're picking up the prom girl in some sort of hybrid embaressment!
 
Let me put it this way, I'm car mad, I could have bought a car at 17, but I kept using the train until I was 18 because the difference in insurance cost was immense. If you can stomach the idea, do your test now, and wait until you're 18.

Do insurance quotes online with your DOB and your DOB but a year earlier, see what the difference is.

I might be talking arse, it might be nearly the same, but there was a huge difference for me.
 
Just get something terrible and rag the nuts off it.

I will either blow up, or you will crash it, but no matter as its worth nothing.
 
I asked the same question for my son last year, and on the recommendation of someone here ended up looking at, and then buying, a Hyundai Coupe. Looks a lot better than most other typical first cars and the insurance was £1600 tpft for the 2.0. The 1.6 would have been cheaper but there aren't many of them around in good condition. That was with admiral multicar though so there was a decent discount. Car has been perfect - I even enjoy borrowing it myself!
 
Sagalout said:
I asked the same question for my son last year, and on the recommendation of someone here ended up looking at, and then buying, a Hyundai Coupe. Looks a lot better than most other typical first cars and the insurance was £1600 tpft for the 2.0. The 1.6 would have been cheaper but there aren't many of them around in good condition. That was with admiral multicar though so there was a decent discount. Car has been perfect - I even enjoy borrowing it myself!
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I'm actually surprised you looked at them after my recommendation, a lot of people write them of by default because of the badge. IMO it's a cool first car.
 
It is. In fact, they are pretty cool anyway. Friend of mine had one as a first car about 5 (?) years ago and he still has it. I think he plans to strap an Evo turbo to it... :D

Some of you saw it as the Super Southern Meet X.
 
I passed just over 3 years ago, go insurance with a black box and my premium was £1,800. I now pay something like £700 ish with 2 year NCB.

My car is a 1.3 GSI, and it gets me A-B and I actually enjoy it. I do however, have a motorcycle to hoon around on :p.
 
grudas said:
I'm actually surprised you looked at them after my recommendation, a lot of people write them of by default because of the badge. IMO it's a cool first car.
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My first car (Current is an Accent, 2002) and I love it. Not to everyone's taste I know, but they are reliable and don't look too bad, an are reasonably responsive on the throttle ion the higher RPMs.
 
IM BACK!!
Currently looking at getting a Skoda Citigo Monte Carlo on a 3 and a half year lease... Its only £122 a month with a £600 upfront deposit, looks a great car for relatively low money, plus with insurance and fuel I am looking £350-400 a month which is manageable for me..

Any other recommendations in this regard? Looking small, with something to it, only to last me 4 years until i can get on the company insurance as I only have to pay tax and I get a free brand new car every 4 years..
 
theaterix said:
IM BACK!!
Currently looking at getting a Skoda Citigo Monte Carlo on a 3 and a half year lease... Its only £122 a month with a £600 upfront deposit, looks a great car for relatively low money, plus with insurance and fuel I am looking £350-400 a month which is manageable for me..

Any other recommendations in this regard? Looking small, with something to it, only to last me 4 years until i can get on the company insurance as I only have to pay tax and I get a free brand new car every 4 years..
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Times have clearly changed from 2002 when I passed my test, part of growing up for me and my mates was driving around in utterly rubbish cars often costing £500 quid or less while throwing the rest of whatever cash you had at insurance and getting trashed on the weekends, whatever was left got saved for the next, not so crap, car. I can't imagine that you would want to own it after 3 and a half years going by your first post which would almost certainly mean paying a load of money for something that lets face it you wouldn't choose to drive. Buy something cheap and rubbish for the cost of the deposit and get as much no claims out of it as you can before moving on to something that you actually want in a year or two.
 
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