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I have 5 grand now, I guess my dad could help me out abit. Or I might just buy a second hand one. But I wont be adding extras to it...... Especially if it costs alot more. :razz:
if you are adament to have a Smart get an older model, and then you dont have to worry about damaging it.
Ive had my car for about 8 months, and i worry about marking it daily, never mind crashing it, and i have been driving for 4 years now. youre first car will be amazing in your eyes, as its your first car.
You need to think about tax and insurance, and little bits and bobs, air fresher, ice scraper, de icer, screen wash, cleaning it, and most important, petrol.
All of these things add up, so i think you will be best getting an older version, or a completely different car and saving the money until you have a few years experience under your belt!
Edited because i cant spell! :P
Bunny, Im always telling people the same thing. Perhaps I should take my own advice. :thumb:
i love car shopping, so if you want a hand, yell me, and ill have a nosey on ye olde internet for you.
An automatic driver still has to go through the same exams, studying, practicing as a manual driver. Except one uses gears & the other doesn't. It doesn't make them any less of a good driver. There are people on the road that drink, take drugs & drive, use there mobiles whilst driving, speeding, the list goes on. Should these people be considered better people to be on the road than automatic drivers?
I am sure in other aspects there are people better at something than you.
I would have at least 5/6 lessons in fairly close succession with a good instructor in a manual before you give up on them completely.
Your insurance won't be as bad if your on your dads insurance, but if the company find out he's fronting for you it will cause massive problems and you won't accumalate your own no claims.
Which is why I split the two. Read the words I use, it'll help you understand what I write.
Well, duh. Look at the list I gave, do you think that I think that those are good habits? Hell Irefer to them as "distractions" FFS
You'd like my car then, it's got 6 forward gears .. lol
Half the time I just skip a gear .. lol
If you were in American 90% of the drievrs would probabaly be driving an automatic.
They're good for traffic, changing gears in very low speed traffic can be a real pain, if you really can't grasp manual then better off with automatic - my cousin is in her 50's and goign to start taking lessons, she's want an auto cos t's easier and cos her left knee is bad so it's less strain for her.
Well if your not a qualified driving instructor, I dont think you decied who is allowed to drive. After all, that's why all drivers have to go through practicing & exams, to decied weather they should be able to drive.
According to who, a qualified instructor or... you?
Well you seemed to have made lite of it there.
So you now assuming that I'll will be doing those above? (which are dangerouse) You sure know me well...
If anything it would be alot easier doing all of the above, if your driving an automatic than a manual car.
It's a real shame you don't think like normal people:(
And I highly doubt he meant it as a complement
WTF? Just because Ilora's view on people who drive automatics begs some questions, she definitely doesn't deserve that response! either argue without flinging personal insults or keep it shut tbh.
Dude, get a sense of humour.
But her saying that if she thought like me she'd commit suicide is acceptable, is it?