It's no excuse but it is a reason. I wrote off my lovely Mk2 Escort within a month of passing my driving test aged 17. Thought I was the best bloody driver on the road. Turns out I wasn't! It taught me a very good lesson, and I was lucky that no one was hurt. Sometimes it's the only way we learn eh?
Not keen on the V50 - the V40 was a much better car, practically indestructible, bloody solid, and they go on for years. Mine's clocking up 200,000 pretty soon on an 02 plate. Ace cars
Ace indeed! I was a V70 man before I got the Bay. Great for lugging my tools about and more besides. I put 100,000s of miles on 3 of them, bought just like this, full service history, years MOT and 80-100k on the clock.
V40 = Mitsubishi Carisma (platform) V50 = Ford Focus (platform) The 1.6 Diesel V50's Canon used to run as service cars were at best dire, the Focus was actually a better car, the 2.0 ltr may be a completely different story.
Sadly yes. You can tell ‘em but somehow your warnings don’t seem real or hit home. Black boxes are a good idea. Like having a policeman in the car! I read somewhere that there are brain connections that don’t form until your mid 20s and you can’t really imagine danger. Why so many young peeps die on the roads - and why they can happily pile into all those Red Bull stunts I suppose.
so pleased he's ok and i dare say it has shaken him and will inform his future driving, so not a bad result all round (except the car) x makes you realise just how unsafe ours are without all the impact absorption stuff
Have to be a bit deranged to drive a Bay hard enough to come off the road through excessive speed though.
Agreed but most pangs you see on here are cocks losing control and hitting / getting shunted into some innocent just pootling along ... Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
‘Tis true, especially with young men (young maaaan). Their sense of risk/danger isn’t fully developed until their mid 20s. It’s why the Army like like 18-year old squaddies...
