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20-05-2008
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My first car?
As the title says, im 17 in jan and am bored of my moped now, dont know what car to get?
Under 1k if poss? Something differant, No corsas, saxos, novas, no chav cars basically!! Matt
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20-05-2008
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nissan micra LOL
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20-05-2008
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How about one of these. Not the sexiest car around but cheap and unreal mpg. Also has added bonus that you can sleep in it at race meets because the seats fold away completely.
Has the added benefit of being seemingly completely invisible to the law... But as I said it is damn unsexy   There is one on ebay at the minute. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1997-SUZUKI-WA...d=p3286.c0.m14
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20-05-2008
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that baby could snap knicker elastic at 500 yards
 !" hi girls do you wanna come and see where i sleep when i race my RC cars ? " lawl !
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20-05-2008
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There is a deeply dark side to our hobby that you can't tell anyone you meet especially women... No matter how you start you always get "the eyebrow", followed by the sad smile. Usually end up feeling like you ought to be wearing a hat with a propeller on it... Thank god I wakeboard too. Infinitely better opener! The car is cool though, slept at many wakeboarding events in it too. It kinda grows on you
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20-05-2008
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Yeah i think its kinda cool too in an inverted snobbery kind of way ! I don`t think he`ll get away with it at 17 though. Only for comedy value You could paint it red and pretend to be Postman Pat Matt !  Yeah, there is no good way of breaking the news about racing toy cars is there  . If they don`t do it then they wont "get it" !Mrs Oople aside ofc. !
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21-05-2008
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Unfortunately you will realise as i did that the "chav cars" are chosen by hooligans for a reason, they're generally small lightweight cars that are relatively cheap to insure because of engine size and go as well as a larger car because of their weight. I ended up with a nova but it's far from chav, more like shopping wagon
 Fiesta might be worth a look, generally avoided by the majority of what most people would call chavs. Ford KA if you can stomach driving a girls car for the small consolation of not looking chavvy  I used to have Novas but my flatmate at uni was big on them and eventually convinced me, they're actually not bad cars, well i lie, they're total crap, but they're fairly reliable and light as hell so shift pretty well on small engines. (According to the haynes manual a basic spec nova weighs 20kg less than a mk2 lotus elise) Also if you can work on an rc car you can probably rebuild a nova from component parts with a haynes manual  Just don't crash in one, they have very little in the way of body panels in the way, and you can forget about door bars too Other than that look at larger cars, probably be hell to insure because of the all round larger engine sizes and it'll be slow as hell, but it will work, and you might be better off in an accident
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21-05-2008
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The Ford Ka is a good first car, they're actually a lot faster than anything else of its size and insurance group
, infact, id still have another one now (and put a 2litre ST engine in)VW Lupo?
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21-05-2008
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The older style clios go well, i remember when i was 17 my mate had a 1.2 and it was pretty quick (well compared to similar sized cars)
Not chavvy either
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21-05-2008
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how about a fiat 126 small and cheap with huge savings on mpg. they have a 2 cylinder 750cc engine but they go all right. mid engined too. and you could do it up like this
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21-05-2008
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Ford Ka's will take medium sized roundabouts at 50mph. I love them. A natural successor to the Classic Mini. Ka's have softer suspension though. But thats quite obvious.
I'd recommend the Ka. But don't discount the Mini too. Elliott.
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21-05-2008
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got a 54 collection coming for sale soon, ac, elec windows central locking, met gold with painted bumpers
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21-05-2008
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I would have to say, having insured 2 daughters through learning to drive, a Ka is the best all rounder 1.3i on group 1 insurance, last one I picked up for £895 with genuine 42,000 miles one owner, and go for the Ka2 if older than 2000, as older ones will not have Power steering, trust me you need it!
you get electric windows and a decent stereo, ours even has a nice spoiler and high rear brake light, and it's black, a decent set of alloys, it looks reasonably cool. They handle well, and we have motorway cruised in it before, so a good all rounder. Check points, they get rusty sumps?? and make sure its either had a new one fitted, or doesn't have a leaky power steering rack. thise and rust seem to be major look out things when buying. PS please please dont buy a rover of any sort with the 1.4 i it,unless you like fitting head gaskets 
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21-05-2008
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Ditto,
The other thing is, dont listen to your mates
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21-05-2008
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Well tbh, the best small cars out there (for lads) for about a grand are corsa B, fiesta's, 106's and saxo's. He said he don't want anything like that, so its down to crap or girly cars
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21-05-2008
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The 306`s used to be pretty good, im sure you could pick up a 1.9td for decent money, the insurance was pretty low on them too.
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