I absolutely agree with this statement but NOT because the kid will have a need for speed.

The real reason I suggest this most people, adults included, grossly underestimate the true power and risk behind an evo on the street. A track on the other hand is a relatively safe place to test the limits of your vehicle legally.

Just because you've driven an M3 doesn't provide you with the experience of a AWD system. With FWD and RWD systems you can immediately tell when you are pushing the limits of the car and with either a simple let off of the throttle or a power slide can correct most minor overshots. The AWD system as I have come to know it isn't like this when the grip fails it fails completely and you can easily find yourself overshooting the corner by a great deal.

Just have respect for this car and the dangers it presents and you'll be fine. Try desperately to remember even though it feels like a race car its not invincible.

I guess I've ranted enough, good luck kid keep that head on your shoulders and not in the clouds got it? We here don't like seeing our cars or our children in the graveyard..

 

did your parents tuck you in. im just kidding but i couldn't resist. sorry.

 

PPwwnneed..haha

 

I got a loan and bought my evo at 18. I had a honda that my parents bought me before that and i must say that it was good to have a slow *** car to learn on because i liked to drive like and ***. Then i saved up enough to swap in a b18c5. The car was much faster and this is when i really got serious about going to the track. If i were in your possition i would get a civic hatch or a 240 and learn in the ins and outs of how to work on it, tune it and beat the **** out of it at the track. Then after a year or so of tearing up a car you dont car too much about and getting all of your driving skills down go big and get the much nicer car.

Just my opinion on what i would do if i were you.

 

Must be nice to be 16 and know everything.

Hmmm, is that insurance premiums I sense/and pay going up......AGAIN?!?!?!?!?

 

t-minus 6 months to "OMG I wrecked my evo. I was doing 35mph and the car just suddenly spun 20 times all on its own, i swear i wasn't racing" post.

 

This is my first post on here but I can relate to this topic. I will be turning 18 in a little over a month and I just purchased a Black 05 ssl. It is a fantastic car and I immediately fell in love with it. However, the first car that I owned was a 2002 RSX-S. I highly reccomend learning on a car like this or something even less in value such as a civic because no matter what you say-its the truth-you will run into curbs (twice), you will scrape your rims against the curbs, and hopefully you will not get into any serious accidents but it is still a possiblity.

My point is that you need to learn and gain a little experience before you get an Evo for your first car. Even though you are young, I have learned that you are NOT invincible as much as you may think. Driving is a very serious and dangerous thing as the members on the forum know. Listen to them because they know what they are talking about, but most of all be careful and stay safe.

 

My neighborhood is snob central, and alot of the kids around here have Evos and mostly it is because the parents have no idea what they are getting them. This kind of performance is made for an experienced driver, but the more we tell this kid not to get one, the more he will want it. My advice: Get a 1983 IROC and crank Billy Squier outside the high school while leaning against the car in an REO Speedwagon T-shirt. That will make you as popular as the Evo will, but it will also make you less dead.

And besides, you can't really make-out with a chick in an Evo. Damn, to be 16 again!

 

Damn people added another page to this. BTW it wont necessairly be my DD. Itll be my only car but ill drive my dads m45 when hes out of town which is 5 months out of the year.

 

Oh and if this helps. I slept on it, the subject i mean, and I thought about leasing a 335i coupe for a year or two. A little less power and probably same payments to lease as to buy an evo =[. Idk though

 

most girls think the evo is a redneck car but then again there are girls that love it

edit: atleast here in my area

 

Lol. Its fine with me. Most teenagers here drive POS cars. I cant lie. but some have really nice ones. So idc, if they dont like my car, I dont like them. My car will be with me longer than any girl =]

 

Take it to the track and learn to drive it. Please don't push this car on the street; potholes, sand, gravel, even dust can get you in to trouble you can't get out of. And at the speeds this thing is capable of, potentially deadly. If you do decide on another car first, I would recommend a rear drive. Front drive car driving techniques don't translate as well.
Good luck.

 

ive been driving stick for about 6 years, i've owned a 300Z TT, a couple dsms, and finally my evo. the only car i managed to slam into curbs with is the evo.. bad driver? perhaps but there is a lot of power in this car that an unexperienced driver cannot account for... including myself sometimes. but goodluck to the 16 year old w/an evo. he'll wreck it in no time

 

I already said im going to one of those schools where you take your car and they teach you defnesive driving and skills to get out of bad sirtuations. and flat out how to better drive your car.