Left-field choices for young drivers

Not pale blue though is it, or at least I hope not.

Nope - its cream colour all over... None of this two-tone nonsense.

Look Al, I know you can't really grasp the concept of "cool", and that's ok, it's not everyone who can, it's no big deal, and I'm sure you have many other qualities, but a Captur is just way cooler than a Hyundai coupe. A Hyundai coupe is for a man who sees himself as a lothario, but can't afford a proper lounge lizard car. It's what WDB would have if he was a bit skint. Not a good starting point for a young man about to enter adulthood, and on whom you have spent a small fortune to ensure that he gets the best possible start in life. You could set him back years by enforcing a Hyundai coupe on him.
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Is there something you’re not telling us, Humph? That you were once offered a light blue Ferrari Daytona for
50p, which you didn’t happen to have on you? And that by the time you’d found an old lady to knock over, the chance had gone? And so began your lifelong mission to vindicate yourself by disparaging anything light blue as unworthy and undesirable?

Thinking about it, this might explain your choice to live in the rainy Northwest of England: even a light blue sky is too painful a reminder of what might have been.

This is entirely driven by my lad's desire for a GT86, but inability to afford or insure one.  He sees the Hyundai Coupe as a decent alternative, and liked the light blue one when I showed it to him.  He's wedded to the idea that his first car has to be Japanese or Korean.  And a coupe body is top of the list.

I may have (unwillingly) lavished money on an expensive private education, but I'm gratified it hasn't turned him in to some pastiche of an upper-middle class twerp in brogues and tweed.

Kids these days aren't horrified at Korean brands.  In fact, they are somewhat "cool", as you put it.  It's the 21st Century, Grandad.

A cream (beige) Renault Captur would have him howling in protest (no offence to EIII Junior, each to their own).  Not that I particularly care, he'll get what he's given so long as I'm buying it, but if I can accommodate his tastes as far as possible, I might as well.  My Mum was extremely fortunate that I must have been the only teenager on Earth who actively liked burgundy FIAT Regatas when it was sourced from an elderly gent on my behalf as a replacement for my catastrophically unreliable black VW Beetle 1303.

Don’t expect him to actually learn to drive in a hurry. The zombie apocalypse has created a genuine pent-up demand phenomenon that the instructors round here are struggling to satisfy. Nothing doing before November that my two can discover.