Left-field choices for young drivers

Congratulations to the lad.

Great. I commiserate on the insurance cost aspect but another errand runner is always useful.

Is he going to be next regular Merc driver

Thanks all. At the moment the policyholder is his brother, who’s barely touched the thing but who did at least live at the same address as the car. I’ll probably let that continue, with whatever the additional premium turns out to be, till renewal time in June, then reconsider whose name ought to be where.

I don’t really want to keep the Aygo any longer than we have to. Boy1 will need to build up some experience, so he can drive himself regularly once he begins his industrial placement late next summer. And Boy2 needs to pass a test, which he will ideally do before then. Then we can offload it, either for something Boy1 can travel more comfortably in, or just for more space on the drive.

Nope, I said that he and the car are 60 miles apart, and I will worry about changing the insurance when he comes back in four weeks' time.

You sink your money in it, and there you are:
The owner of a two-thousand-dollar thousand-dollar car.

Hope it tuns out well.

Ach it’ll be great fun anyway. We all enjoyed the experience when H Jnr was learning. A few nervous moments here and there of course, as could be expected, but treat it as fun as well as a necessity and it’ll be a breeze.

That is true but 2 of them are quite visibly cracking, so I'll get them done.