Help Please!!!
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RE: Help Please!!!
I wasn't thinking driving skill, although that is a part of it.....I was thinking peer pressure.
I think you'd be better served by a 3i...Your mileage would be around 30 mpg instead of 20 mpg (as an 18 year old in a 260+ hp car, you will not get good mileage.) I got mine brand new out the door for $14,900, roughly $8-10,000 less than an Speed3, not to mention the insurance cost difference.
Take a few thousand of that and put it into some cool rims/tires/body kitand you'll have a very nice, reliable and unique vehicle to drive. (FYI....when I was in highschool I owned a 1984 Cavalier that I paid $700 cash for....it was a piece, but it was MY piece.)
I think you'd be better served by a 3i...Your mileage would be around 30 mpg instead of 20 mpg (as an 18 year old in a 260+ hp car, you will not get good mileage.) I got mine brand new out the door for $14,900, roughly $8-10,000 less than an Speed3, not to mention the insurance cost difference.
Take a few thousand of that and put it into some cool rims/tires/body kitand you'll have a very nice, reliable and unique vehicle to drive. (FYI....when I was in highschool I owned a 1984 Cavalier that I paid $700 cash for....it was a piece, but it was MY piece.)
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RE: Help Please!!!
ORIGINAL: Mrgaragal
Please do not take offence at this but two year driving is nothing. I have been driving for 30 years and I still am looking for more tips on how to drive better. I don't think you are ever experienced enough. I agree with the comment that the speed is probably not the best car to start with. look at the regular 3. Its still quick enough for running around and unless you are planning an racing or driving real fast the speed is over kill for you. Its like the kids who have never ridden a motorcycle and go buy a crotch rocket then everyone wonders why they lost control at 125. I would not put my son in a speed as a first purchased car. Hell, I went with the 3sGT because I figured it would bring me less tickets.
Just trying to save you a lot of problems.
Please do not take offence at this but two year driving is nothing. I have been driving for 30 years and I still am looking for more tips on how to drive better. I don't think you are ever experienced enough. I agree with the comment that the speed is probably not the best car to start with. look at the regular 3. Its still quick enough for running around and unless you are planning an racing or driving real fast the speed is over kill for you. Its like the kids who have never ridden a motorcycle and go buy a crotch rocket then everyone wonders why they lost control at 125. I would not put my son in a speed as a first purchased car. Hell, I went with the 3sGT because I figured it would bring me less tickets.
Just trying to save you a lot of problems.
I was 46 when I got my first new car. Can you guess which one it is?? That's right, my 3.
When I was 16 I wrecked my first car... a '57 Chevy 2-dr. I loved that car and never intended to destroy it, but was too immature and inexperienced a driver. I was only lucky that no one got hurt or killed in the accident.
**** happens to the best of us, and today's traffic is much more difficult to deal w/than when I learned to drive.
When you don't even have life experience, let alone skilled driving experience, you should be happy with a reliable piece 'o' **** for now. Chances are it'll get you where you need to go w/o all the costs and responsibilities that come w/owning a new car and you'll gain more experience in the process.
'Sorry to bring ya' down, but that's the way I feel too.
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thanks for all of your concerns guys...i think this is becoming more about me than it is about the car...but i will say this, i dont speed or race or give in to peer pressure regarding anything like this, none of the peers Iassociate with are stupid enough to street race or wreckless enough to endangerlives. And im not the one to be irked into racing by some dude staring at me at a stoplight with hisengine reving. if he wants to die at 125 mph then thats his business... but yea, im gonna do wat im gonna dobut thanks for the adivce, its much appreciated, who knows, maybe when i actually gothere and am about to purchase one, ill get the regular3 instead, butuntil then, ill way my desires and options. 
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thanks for all of your concerns guys...i think this is becoming more about me than it is about the car...but i will say this, i dont speed or race or give in to peer pressure regarding anything like this, none of the peers Iassociate with are stupid enough to street race or wreckless enough to endangerlives. And im not the one to be irked into racing by some dude staring at me at a stoplight with hisengine reving. if he wants to die at 125 mph then thats his business... but yea, im gonna do wat im gonna dobut thanks for the adivce, its much appreciated, who knows, maybe when i actually gothere and am about to purchase one, ill get the regular3 instead, butuntil then, ill way my desires and options.
thanks for all of your concerns guys...i think this is becoming more about me than it is about the car...but i will say this, i dont speed or race or give in to peer pressure regarding anything like this, none of the peers Iassociate with are stupid enough to street race or wreckless enough to endangerlives. And im not the one to be irked into racing by some dude staring at me at a stoplight with hisengine reving. if he wants to die at 125 mph then thats his business... but yea, im gonna do wat im gonna dobut thanks for the adivce, its much appreciated, who knows, maybe when i actually gothere and am about to purchase one, ill get the regular3 instead, butuntil then, ill way my desires and options.
And you were right in your first sentence!! Sorry for the off-topic.
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