Yes! Drive A Turbo On P'S

[Shark]

So for arguement sake Daddy has a 500HP GT. Kid is on his L's with limited experiance but he is alowed to drive

it on his/her L's? Im sorry there is no margin for error.

L-Platers should be limited to nothing more than 2000cc unmodified vehicles

The government should be investing in training L and P-platers instread of all these speed cameras

To be honest.. I think theres a larger margin for error. (that's given my experience, I will explain why).

Having a high powered vehicle doesn't necessarily make it more 'dangerous' at all.

It's not like because the car runs 10s, and L plater is driving, they'll giving it 100% off the lights every time. I don't know about you, but I certainly learnt throttle control when I started driving. In a lower powered vehicle, you are less likely to learn this as foot to the floor = a slowwwwwwww ramp up to the speed limit anyway.

The whole idea that my old man got me to drive a high powered vehicle, was BECAUSE I had limited experience. It was to TEACH me how to drive a car, aswell as how to drive on public roads.

Most modified cars generally have modified brakes to cope with high speeds when stopping yes?

The car I learnt in had a PBR2 slotted rotor kit, and it pulled up harder than anything else on the f*cking road. I've had a guy pull out infront of me and hit the brakes, and if I wasn't in a car with the high performance brakes I was, I would've ran up his arse.

You seem to be so quick to judge. Like every L plater is a hoon. Like every L plater has no idea. Like every L plater 'cant handle the power.' .. well seriously.. who says they're even going to use it?

It's so situationally dependant that you're passing blind judgements as bad as any authority that believes "ALL modifications to cars should be illegal."

Please open your eyes abit more mate

Less speed cameras = less revenue so that won't happen, but I definately agree with you about driver training.

Also another thing I've noticed, is that regarless of power it's easy to get into a tricky situation whether you're in the wet or dry. However some cars don't have 'enough' power to pull back out of it, so it doesn't hurt to have a little bit of power at your ready.

Edited 14/01/10 02:55 AM by Shark

[nang3]

I spent my P plate days driving either a new Maxima, new pulsar SSS, fully restored 1966 Mustang coupe with 289 v8, new Bluebird SSS and an old bunky skyline...

while none of those were anywhere near as quick as modern day anything they were great learner cars.. Maxima was fast for its day, Pulsar was light and had bad handling, same with the skyline and driving the immaculate Mustang was like walking on egg shells cause if it got one single scratch I was history and therefore had to anticipate every other farker on the road too... it still cut nuts on the school lawn on final day of TEE though ROFL!!

cars nowadays are much more powerful and I think some kind of restrictions are a good thing

[lowfutura]

I learnt to drive in an HQ at 13, bringing the old man home from the pub.

[Brad-D]

you cant just simply use your company letter head to get around this law, if the police have any doubts they will still issue the ticket and say that it's up to you to prove it to a court.

I dont know how you would get around this after 6pm.

Just suck it up and wait till you get some driving experience, to many young people get fast cheap cars and flog em and wind up around a tree.

Ow and for NSW its by memory the fine is $477 and 7 points!

Edited 15/01/10 04:54 AM by Brad-D

[turbohead]

ok well the day I turned 16 and got y l's my dad through me in his gen xy gt toploader because he said he wanted me to learn how to drive a car with no power steering no breaks and that is basically just a pig to drive before I drove a modern car that basically did evereything the xy didnt, now this was the first manual car I had driven and let me tell u after u can drive one of them big tanks around anywhere u really appreciate how hard it must of been back in the day, but it really helped me alot because they are not the easiest cars to learn in. now since I have had my p's I have had a vs clubsport a pritty tuff xr6 t and now another xr6 t that went 9.98 140mph and I have not had a accident or much trouble with the police at all just 1 over power fine with my first xr6 t.

tuff cars bro, all of them look mint

[Iconic Bionic]

you cant just simply use your company letter head to get around this law, if the police have any doubts they will still issue the ticket and say that it's up to you to prove it to a court.

I dont know how you would get around this after 6pm.

Just suck it up and wait till you get some driving experience, to many young people get fast cheap cars and flog em and wind up around a tree.

Ow and for NSW its by memory the fine is $477 and 7 points!

Close, $422 but yes the 7 points will put you off the road for a few months.

I.B.

[SMG_473]

I tell you why we have these stupid laws:

the labor and Japanese government have some stupid agreement about importing as many as cars as possible from Japan. every car has to be exported or crushed after 70K or so in Japan, so the best way for both government to make some cash is to bring all of these NA skylines and etc to Australia and throw them to P platters to drive them. I know few people who import cars from Japan and one of them told me that they sell so many NA's these days and they sell faster than any other car. You can by a NA skyline for about 2500 USD in an auction in Japan and import it for 1000 AUD and sell it for about 14000 AUD(let alone registration and insurance). Do the maths and see how much you make out of that.

[tab]

Are you serious? That's a rather far-fetched scenario mate.

[seduced]

so the laws are in place so that all p-platers buy NA skylines so the government can make a profit on them all??????????

[Benji_vs]

These topics are getting stupid, you you wanna drive a V8 or a turbo car and you have the money GO NUTS, no one here will stop you. Just dont expect a clear run on the roads as a fully licenced driver will have, NO MATTER THE EXPERIENCE!

End of the day, the cops will harass you, insurance will stay away from you, and old people will shake their fingers at you.

Your choice

Damn