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"New Car"

Just got a brand spanking new Astra SXi 2.0 DTi this morning. My dad gets it cheap on some sort of scheme as he works for vauxhall. And it only costs £10 a month to insure me on it =) (normally it would cost upwards of £1000 to insure me on somethin like this! seeing as i'm only 19) And we get a brand new one every 5 months :)


Anyways, i get to drive it to UNI every day so i'm as happy as can be right now! :D Just took it for a little cruise around town, proper nice...Stereo is nice and bassy with a lovely CD player :)

The Astra?

Its (vauxhall) company insurance. It only costs £10 extra a month becasue i'm under 25. when i'm 25 i'll be able to drive the 3.2 V6 24v Vectra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I have a Nissan Micra, 0-7mph in 60 seconds.

It costs £10 a month to give you insurance for this car?

Are you sure it isn’t just that your dad has full insurance coverage and you are just a named driver? That’s what my dad has done for me and the Micra, it costs about £200 a year for me that way rather then about £1000.

Or†ega wrote:

> The McLaren F1 roadcar can do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds.

> Mind you, you could buy a decent house in Kensington for the same
> price...

exactly. My bike cost me just short of 3 grand. Get a car of the same value to beat me in a race and I'll admit I'm not the king of the road...

Saxo's have been overdone by the car modders - everyones got them mowadays....

<- Lazarou -> wrote:
> corsas are the scourge of our great country, as were novas before
> them.

yeah, not as bad as modified Saxos though... Do you have to wear a Burberry cap to drive a Saxo, or will the car work without it?

corsas are the scourge of our great country, as were novas before them.

boy racer mobile through and through

just an opinion of course

getting a new black 3dr corsa SXi on wednesday

Cant wait!

have a pic

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mandeep.bains/SXi.jpg

*loves the blacked out rear lights*

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> Anyway, a 19 year old should NOT be driving something like that. You should be in a Corsa or something by Nissan!

Like a Nissan Skyline? ;)

When I passed my test I was covered by work insurance to drive my dad's VW Passat 1.8T. That's a car that I shouldn't have been allowed to drive! Then one of my dad's colleagues let his son drive his company Audi A6 and he stacked it in a ditch. They changed the insurance policy for everyone after that. :(

Got the new Astra on Wednesday. But I've gone back to driving the Corsa now. Just got some new Alpine 6x9 speakers installed in it :) The sound quality is amazing with proper heavy bass.

Slaveunit wrote:
> Cars for class, perhaps, but bikes for speed.
>
> My little 600 will do 0-60 in 4.1. admittedly it tops out at 130mph,
> but i had the gearing changed for snappier accelleration.
>
> My new bike comes this year, a Ducati 916 - the bike of my dreams.
> 0-60 in 3.4, tops at 170.

The McLaren F1 roadcar can do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds.

Heres the complete chart :)

mph secs
0 - 30 1.8
0 - 40 2.3
0 - 50 2.7
0 - 60 3.2
0 - 80 4.5
0 - 100 6.3
0 - 120 9.2
0 - 140 11.2
0 - 160 14.6
0 - 180 20.3
0 - 200 28.0

Oh, and its got a top speed of around 240mph

so, er, :P


Mind you, you could buy a decent house in Kensington for the same price...