Oh oppo my moms Camry has CVT flappy paddles

"CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)" (ccpbb) 03/14/2014 at 19:12 • Filed to: None

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Not the damn same feeling as a manual, doesn't have the 6 banger, but with traction control off, it's pretty good for a 16 year old. (Edit: I'm a high schooler, and this is a pretty good car versus what I can drive.)

For Sweden > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 03/14/2014 at 19:14

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Teen moms have all the fun.

N/A POWAAAHH > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 03/14/2014 at 19:16

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That just means it's super fast. trust me, I know stuff

KirkyV > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 03/14/2014 at 19:17

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Where I live, sixteen-year-olds get mopeds, and seventeen-year-olds get manual hatchbacks with 1.0-1.4 litre engines.

coqui70 > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 03/14/2014 at 19:31

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Hoon that puppy ... hoon it!

jkm7680 > KirkyV 03/14/2014 at 19:33

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Where I live, girls get Corollas and guys get Wranglers, both in slushbox form.

offroadkarter > KirkyV 03/14/2014 at 19:38

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Man, that sounds like it sucks

when I was 16 I got a 4.6L quad cam 302hp v8

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > N/A POWAAAHH 03/14/2014 at 19:42

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Actually not, but give a bit of life to the fetid cvt

EL_ULY > KirkyV 03/14/2014 at 19:43

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I'm sorry to hear that :(

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > For Sweden 03/14/2014 at 19:44

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What? It's my moms car, and I'm the 16 old male who is driving this.

KirkyV > jkm7680 03/14/2014 at 19:48

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Heh, we like to keep it old skool (and cheap) here. (Also, no one has - or wants, thanks to their reputation as the transmission of old people and the disabled - an auto, and there aren't any Corollas or Wranglers, anywhere.) Here's a brief run-down of what some people I know drive:

Me:

2000 Peugeot 106 1.1. Because rally car:

(In my case, very slow rally car.)

Max:

Nineties VW Polo 1.4

Tom:

Mid nineties Fiesta 1.2 (He's since moved on, but this was his first car.)

Ben:

Late nineties/early 2000s Fiesta 1.3 (He, too, has since moved on.)

Emma:

VW Lupo. God knows how big the engine was, or when it was from.

KirkyV > offroadkarter 03/14/2014 at 19:51

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Eh, it's not so bad:

They're a lot of fun. Just, slow fun. (Also, less rally car popping.) I'd take a small car that handles with a small engine and a manual over a big car that doesn't with an auto. But, then, that's just my taste.

KirkyV > EL_ULY 03/14/2014 at 19:51

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You shouldn't be. :-)

therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) > KirkyV 03/14/2014 at 20:02

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Where I live: Volvo 240, Geo Metro, Tuned Honda Civic (For Pizza Deliveries), Bunch of Corollas, Ford Focus SVT, Ford Mustang (The Principal's).

So I live at a way more exicting place when it come to cars I guess........

therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 03/14/2014 at 20:03

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Oh and a Ford Escort Wagon.......

KirkyV > therevengeofthesaab (really likes pre-2005 hondas right now) 03/14/2014 at 20:04

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The tuned Civic gets you up there, as does the Focus SVT - though I'd have our ST170, myself - and the Mustang, but it's brought down a little by all the Corollas.

Oh, and don't underestimate how exciting a good underpowered hatchback can be, provided it handles half-decently.

davedave1111 > KirkyV 03/14/2014 at 20:48

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Heh, does that make me a rich kid because I'm about ten or fifteen years older than you and I had a car about the same age as those?

Actually, probably just that insurance has got that much more expensive since then.

KirkyV > davedave1111 03/14/2014 at 20:57

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Li'l bit, though our fecking ridiculous insurance premiums do have a lot to do with it. £2800 for my first year... Down to £800 for the second. I'm nineteen now, and thinking of moving up to a Saxo VTR or something when renewal time rolls around. I like my 106 a lot, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want some more grunt. I might just do the 'sensible' thing though, and stick with the 1.1 for another year so I can afford the insurance on a selection of actual hot hatches. I'm debating between a 106 GTi, a 205 GTi - love them, but not sure I could live with one - a 306 GTi-6, a RenaultSport Clio 172/182, or a Civic Type R.

(I quite like the looks of that generation of Punto, by the way. Was yours that colour?)

davedave1111 > KirkyV 03/14/2014 at 21:12

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£2800??!!! Fuck me, I knew it was bad, but I didn't realise it was that bad.

Once you've got through the worst of it, try having a look at old-man cars - a Rover 45 diesel or something. They can be a bit cheaper to insure than other cars with similar performance, and some of them are actually nice cars. And if you can't have a quick car yet, you can at least have a more practical one.

And yeah, 'my' Punto was red. Complete knicker-melter. Come to think of it, the only girl I did hand-brake turns in it with married me.

KirkyV > davedave1111 03/14/2014 at 21:19

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Yup. It's no fucking wonder that so many people my age go uninsured... Thereby driving premiums up... So more people go uninsured... Seriously, something has to be done—as is, it's just going to get worse.

I've been tempted by the idea of a relatively speedy codger's car that doesn't cost the world to insure... But I just can't get by my desperate want for a hot hatch, ideally with a lion on the front and a birthdate in the nineties.

Also:

Fuck, even I'm turned on.

davedave1111 > KirkyV 03/14/2014 at 21:28

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The way to get over that hot-hatch want is to drive a car with real room for actual stuff for a bit.

The first car I bought myself was a Toyota Carina E - I was doing a much higher proportion of motorway miles, and wanted something with a longer wheelbase for stability - the Fiat was pretty twitchy at anything approaching 90, as well as nearly flat-out.

It was about as long from the b-pillar back as your 106 - also a very good looking car, especially in that colour, I forgot to say - and it turned out to be so useful. You could fit five adults and luggage for a long trip, for starters - doing that in a 106 is banned under the Geneva Convention, I believe.

KirkyV > davedave1111 03/14/2014 at 21:32

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Honestly, to me, small size and sprightliness is more important than people and stuff capacity for the moment. My 106 has been fine for everything I've ever needed to move around, and I've got enough friends with cars that, if we're doing a long trip, we can split the load, so I don't really need the extra room. That's why I'm mainly looking at superminis and such, rather than family hatches and estates and the like.