range rover as a first car?

I love laughing at people who haven't passed there test and say they can drive, if you can drive then go do your friggin test and drive legally!

how about a peugeot 306 2lt deisel they are fine to get insured in (even a turbo deisel) but you will not get insurance in a volve or a range rover they are just too high risk.
also try - skoda octavias and volkwagen passats and stuff like that.

I love laughing at people who haven't passed there test and say they can drive, if you can drive then go do your friggin test and drive legally!

You have the rest of your lives to buy range rovers when you can properly drive, right now don't put your, and other road users lives at risk.

I find my mums big frontera much easier to drive than my dads mazda 6, and as for small cars I hate them, so not really /thread, it is personal choice.

clearly never been to ireland....

Old Range Rovers are actually quite low risk. They have next to no value (as I said, a top spec Vogue model from circa 1988 (before the soft dash models that started in 1991) can be had for a grand for a very good condition one, with LPG. Perfect condition would be 2 grand. A clapped out 3.5 can be as low as 4 or 500 quid. They're slow and undesirable and as a result, with the right insurance company you're good to go. A lot more practical than the ****** little cars that most people our age drive and you'll have a lot more fun. People like Sureterm specialise in 4x4s and the fact that there's '3.9V8' in their name won't make them **** their pants like most companies.

Like I said, getting hold of a good Tdi version will bring the insurance down a lot, but they're a little harder to get hold of and are worth a bit more because you can realistically get more than 30mpg, which is nice

Haha! I love how my friends over there just get in their parents' cars and go for a spin whenever they fancy it, despite having had no lessons.

Err.. actually range rovers insurance groups are from 14-15.. most companies wont insure anyone under 21 on these groups, let alone someone who's newly passed, and any company that will will have huge premiums, if OP looking at cars that are under a grand I doubt he'll want to pay £4000 in insurance!

haha i've been driving by myself for 18 months, failed my test though... spppeeeding i do know plenty of people who've never had a lesson who are better at driving than those who actually have licences.

Driving in rural Ireland on a regular basis its easy to see the polar opposite of that as well!

i would take my test if i could im 17 in 3 days, and im living in a completely different country with different driving laws. surprisingly i can drive for realsies, which doesnt mean 5mph round some bollards in a car park. drifting the xc90 in snow is a hoot!

Insurance for me on my 1988 would have been £3000 main driver, £1500 named driver. Knock a grand or so off of these for a Tdi and you're not too far removed from what people pay for Corsas and Saxos, for a car that's far more practical and fun to own. For my first year of driving I drove my 1990 Defender 110 with 2.5TD and that was only £300/year to insure as a named driver, would have been £900 for my second year as main driver. These are something like insurance group 12 or 13. Insurance groups aren't everything.

Insurance groups are pretty much everything to be fair..

Oh actually wait, there's also the fact that he's an inexperienced 17 year old male, just to add to the fire, and that it's an LPG conversion.. shall I go on?