I can drive all 3 cars insured right now but i'm the primary driver of the Protege. The insurance agent told my mom that the best thing would be to have me as primary on the van so that it would be the cheapest for me. I can still drive all 3 cars though.

 

Whats up with the sh!tload of 16yr olds asking about evos? wowsers..

get a **** car and work up from it..honda..nissan..dsm...etc..why the need for 286hp awd go cart...and i just wouldn't see myself doing that...when I get my stuff i feel better when I pay for it by MYSELF...meh..w/e..

 

^^^That's exactly my thoughts, but I didn't post that cos I didn't want to sound too much like a dad!

 

good luck with the purchase. Im in the same boat as you. My MR is going to be brought home in a little over two weeks, unless my parents change their minds. Best Xmas + Sweet 16 present i could every ask for. GL.

 

Yea i'm pretty responsible and my parents completely trust me. As far as the car goes it will stay stock for atleast a year because i dont want to have more power than i can handle. I also want to get used to it and not push it too hard until i know how to drive it. It is going to be a DD so i cant beat on it since this will have to last me until i graduate from college and am on my own. If something happens to it then im pretty sure i'll get another beater or something a lot slower.

 

Are you going to keep it completely stock?

 

Heck, I'm sounding more and more like my dad everyday......

 

Sorry Columbus, Ga home of the little league world champs. As far as being 16 and wanting one well im just not into the truck with huge lift scene which is what we have down here in the south. My mom offered to buy me a GTO but i thought that was WAY too much power based on numbers alone.

 

Hmmmm...that's kinda funky insurance, not too sure on how it works in regards to accidents and such (unfortunately you get what you pay for). That might be something to look into just in case there is some rule saying how often you can drive the cars not under your name. Let's be realistic, insurance companies are out there to make money so they don't exactly like loop holes.
If you want advice from someone who was in a similar situation, here you go. My parents are both doctors so money has never been a problem. When I was 17 and about to go to university I got a car, my lancer. Sure they could have easily bought me a WRX, a BMW, etc. but they wisely realized (since I'm the youngest child) that this wasn't in my best interest, so I got a manual ES lancer with an amazing 120 hp. Looking back now I can see why they did it. If I had a car with more power, I would have gotten into a lot more trouble. Maybe I would have been fine, maybe not. My parents simply were not willing to trust my life to the chance that I was one of the 0.1% of young male drivers that actually knows their *** from a hole in the ground. I went to school with kids who were bought Lexuses, BMWs, subarus, pimped up hondas, allowed to drive daddy's ferrari, etc. and some of these kids crashed and others were injured, died or killed other people.
You can't simply look at the immediate cost, you have to take into account the future. How long are you going to have the evo under your mom's name, until you're 25? What about gas, premium isn't cheap. Repairs? Maintenance? Tuition? Book fees? Extra money for fun?

 

yes it will be completely stock atleast for the first year. If anything it will be a boost gauge and maybe an MBC and drop-in.

 

286hp 3000lb car

or

400hp 4000lb car



id rather die in a gto

 

I'm thinking exactly the same thing. I am actually shocked and disappointed by the parents of today.

 

Honestly, this forum is full of members who haven't had the privilege of owning Evo at such young age, so I highly doubt anyone would really sympathize with you--hence their casutic comments about how you're going to wreck the car and so-on. Honestly, Evo is/was my first car at age 16 (I'm 20 and I still drive it and it has yet to break on me nor I've yet to crash into someone--interestingly enough, it's been other people who've been crashing into me...go figure) and as long as you can exercise responsibility, it should be fine. I drive spiritedly, but not like a madman; I may accelerate hard occasionaly but I would never do stupid things like speeding, racing, making dangerous manuvers, etc. Even if I find myself straying over the speedlimit from hard acceleration, I'd simply let go of accelerator and let the car slow down.

The BIGGEST misconception among evo owners about evo is that they think that somehow the car breaks limits of physics--the fact is, this car cannot make impossible manuvers. I'm sick of seeing evo owners wrecking their cars due to their incompetency and end up tainting evo owners as a collective whole. Just remember to drive responsibly and be thankful that you'll be a lucky person to own a 30k sports car at such young age. Since I'm going to presume you're going to take your car to school once you buy it, friendly warning: you WILL be bombarded with peer pressure to take them out for a spin and maybe even be requested to do reckless things (speeding, mainly)--trust me, I've always been asked to drive for people and they always asked me to do stupid things. I just learned to shrug them off and laugh at their groundless tauntings.

Cliffnote: Drive responsibly, this car is fast but does not make you a racing driver/invincible, try not to give in to peer pressure to drive like a dumbass.

Hope this helps

 

^parents of today...people of todaay...society of today...its all in teh ****ter...except for skiploder haha

 

As far as insurance it is Statefarm and i have full coverage and liability so thats not really an issue. I understand what you are saying because i go to a school where the kids are driving fully loaded $50g plus tahoe's and tsx's and amg benz and a lot have had wrecks but not all. you run that risk no matter what car you drive because you can't control the other people. The car isnt going to be under their name till im that old i plan on taking over the payments once i am able to. Either way they are gonna buy me a new car though. My dad always has told me that as long as im not getting into trouble or have bad grades then they would help me out with my car whether its mods or the car itself. So i havent been drinking, smoking or any of that other stuff that goes on around me and my grades are A's and B's and im trying to do my part in order to get what i want.