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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #30 on: Mar 12, 2008, 02:49PM »
Quote from: Colby on Mar 12, 2008, 09:09AM
On the other side of the argument... parents kids buy/contribute to newer cars so their kids can be safer... our cars with no ABS, no airbags = not as safe.  And with the popularity of big heavy SUV's driven by midgets, drug dealers, pornstars, spoilt kids etc... I do see the value of my kids having something modern with added safety.  maybe BMW is a bit fancy and out of budget though, late 90's would be fine.

But then there's the issue of moral hazard - if the kiddies know their parents will buy them a nice new car, rather than having to save up for ages themselves, will they act more recklessly and not be as careful a driver as they might otherwise be?  Safety is irrelevant if you never crash the car.

Quote from: SSS on Mar 12, 2008, 12:59PM
Insanity. Nice car, but, insanity.

You know, I could deal with the purchase price.  If you keep the car for years, you're able to diffuse that cost over a long period, so it doesn't seem quite as bad.  For me, it's the increased costs associated with the car's value - servicing, and particularly insurance, probably tyres, and then there's the cost of protecting that value etc.  These costs are just more, regardless of how long you keep the car.  This is the sort of thing that would stop me from putting money into the TRX, because I don't want to bear higher annual costs for the indefinite future.
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #31 on: Apr 9, 2008, 11:14PM »
oh o im one of these p platers driven around in expensive cars! I drove around in my mums lexus is200 when my car was out coz it was afire hazard....the looks i get from ppl in the city lol...altho that could be coz i had windows down and music cranking lol

next on the list to drive is my step dad 350z :P

both are auto tho :( so mum can drive them lol


i do feel very lucky wid the TRX tho as my p plater car coz compared to my mates cars mine is by far the niceset...... now they all try and out do pintara its funny......one bought a TP Magna and sent a msg around saying it was better than the pintara!!!! lol hes yet to prove it lol... altho one of my mates who left school and is an electrision is proberly gona be the first to out do the pinny, hes buying an RX7 series 4 turbo......according to him rotaries and mazdas are the best cars and engine in the wrld!!!!

its quiet annoying, so the pinny will be getting some wrk done when i finish school to shut this guy up!!
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #32 on: Apr 10, 2008, 09:53AM »
Rotaries are good engines, but they need to be built right, when they do they fly.

Yeah, but im sure you didn't have plates on it like, DSXC1 or somefucking gay crap like that did you? Most of these cars I mentioned before have custom plates on it that a mum wouldn't drive with lol.

I do drive around in a del-sol crx now, it gets abit of attention but it's not like their expensive anyway.
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #33 on: Apr 10, 2008, 05:19PM »
lol good point no wacky no. plates on these cars Charry is usually wat my mum gets lol so far we got 2 sets of charry plates coz mum last 2 cars were different colours lol
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #34 on: Apr 10, 2008, 05:22PM »
Quote from: Vithy on Apr 10, 2008, 05:19PM
lol good point no wakie no. plates on these cars Charry is usually wat my mum gets lol so far we got 2 sets of charry plates coz mum last 2 cars were different colours lol

Quote from: Vithy on Apr 10, 2008, 05:17PM
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #35 on: Apr 10, 2008, 05:27PM »
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #36 on: Apr 10, 2008, 06:30PM »
how many of your teachers have spontaneously combusted?
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #37 on: Apr 10, 2008, 09:04PM »
Holy crap I do not get what you said at all!!

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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #38 on: Apr 10, 2008, 09:44PM »
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how many of your teachers have spontaneously combusted?

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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #39 on: Jul 10, 2008, 12:28AM »
i know a dude who owns a brand spanking new VE SS and has turboed it!!! LOL WTF ON P's and hes 19 and its turboed LOL!! it sounds like a jet his plated r hektik very tuff car dunno where he got the money lol!!
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #40 on: Jul 10, 2008, 04:19AM »
well dont i feel bad driving my BMW right now...

a little added help from parents is alright... in my situation it was either keep spending money repairing an old bomb or buy a new car (with a little help) and start saving that money for something productive..
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #41 on: Jul 10, 2008, 01:16PM »
What BMW is it?
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #42 on: Jul 10, 2008, 01:18PM »
only a 3 series...

wouldn't mind an old v12 7 series though :P
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #43 on: Jul 10, 2008, 01:29PM »
what moddeelllllll haha... it could be a 1980's 3 series for all i know :P.
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #44 on: Jul 11, 2008, 03:19PM »
right now the best place to get money is to work in the mines.

you can start at age 16 as a apprentice electician, be earning roughly $700ow♦ (as an apprentice) with no way to spend it because you're living at the mines.

once you're actually an electrician you're on something more like 2000pw at age 21.

either that or join the navy, the pay there is pretty good if you work hard, and there's no shops out at sea.
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #45 on: Jul 11, 2008, 05:36PM »
abbatoirs here mate... 1000$ a week no quals...

its only a 90's model bmw chris. but at least this one runs :P
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #46 on: Jul 11, 2008, 06:27PM »
50k a year, limited!
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #47 on: Jul 11, 2008, 08:59PM »
but what do you say to your mum when you want to modify a car they already spent like 25k on?

"mum my suspension is dead, so im buying coilovers ok, their 3k"
-yeah no worries, here u go.
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #48 on: Jul 11, 2008, 09:03PM »
Quote from: chr1S on Jul 11, 2008, 08:59PM
but what do you say to your mum when you want to modify a car they already spent like 25k on?

"mum my suspension is dead, so im buying coilovers ok, their 3k"
-yeah no worries, here u go.

Oh thats not normal?  ???  :D
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #49 on: Jul 11, 2008, 09:53PM »
15k or 20k really isn't that much for a car  :-\

most of this thread seems like tall poppy syndrome, If I'm stinking rich of course I'm going to want to have my kids well off too. I would like to think that they would work hard for it... but I wouldn't want them in an unsafe car if I had a choice. I'd probably make them get an Audi or a VW before I got them a jap import though..

who am I kidding I'd let them have it if I could drive it  ;D
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #50 on: Jul 11, 2008, 11:27PM »
I think I mentioned this in another thread, but I'm fine with P-platers having nice cars and having their parents buy it for them.

It's when the kid has proven themselves to be irresponsible by crashing the first car that mommy bought them, but the parents still buy them another expensive (and fast) car. That's when you have a real problem.

The rest of the time it's just me being jealous of people having nice cars. :P
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #51 on: May 19, 2009, 12:25AM »
yeah seein other p platers with big money cars is annoying so i think i might sell the TRX buy an S2000 next year if i can save enough
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #52 on: May 19, 2009, 09:08AM »
omg cuz the vtec

s2k's are slow.. my del sol smashes their anoose
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #53 on: May 19, 2009, 10:20AM »
he's clearly going for the image not the speed (I wouldnt say an s2k is all that slow).  P plater in s2k compared to P plater in desol who's the bigger tosser? 
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #54 on: May 19, 2009, 11:21AM »
lol yeh, its all about the style when you drive an s2k.

hey it depends who's driving! here in this city alot of cough "dirty [i seem to suffer from tourettes]s" drive del sols and wreck the whole image of them, I like them but they are tarnished by these minority of boys that like to do them up in a way that makes me throw up. But meh, same could be said with s2k's.
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #55 on: May 19, 2009, 01:23PM »
i haven't seen a stock s2k in about a year now.

all the ones around here have horrible 22inch dish rims.

Its a shame 'cause I used to really like s2k's but now I think they're a bit meh
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #56 on: May 21, 2009, 11:47PM »
Quote from: chr1S on May 19, 2009, 09:08AM
omg cuz the vtec

s2k's are slow.. my del sol smashes their anoose

i love vtec i was in an integra dc2r today  6k vtec kicks in  loved it
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #57 on: May 22, 2009, 02:32AM »
Quote from: Brass Monkey on May 21, 2009, 11:47PM
i love vtec i was in an integra dc2r today  6k vtec kicks in  loved it

Been in a turbo car before?
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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #58 on: May 22, 2009, 04:29AM »
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Been in a turbo car before?

Been in an E55 AMG Merc?  I've been driving one on loan here for the last two weeks.

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Re: p-platers driving nice cars
« Reply #59 on: May 22, 2009, 11:22AM »
Quote from: cruizer on May 22, 2009, 02:32AM
Been in a turbo car before?
how about a TARBOVTEC?
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