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Originally Posted by montreal red
i am also 22 and i drive an m3... i dont think being 22 qualifies you or me to say that we are "experienced" drivers... younger drivers always do more stupid things while being on the road. so we are pretty much on the same boat as him. and if he says that he is responsible, which means he knows when not to endanger himself and others then he could very well be less likely to get into any mishaps then you. just because youre 6 yrs older, it doesnt put you in a higher ground. it doesnt matter how much experience you have. you can the experience of an F1 driver for all i care but if you drift around the city streets all day scaring everyone around you, then you dont deserve the car!
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I don't think we're exactly in the same boat as him.
I've had my fair share, a couple times, of a few mistakes so far in my driving career with the slower cars even.. the 8 second to 60mph auto 325i(i realize this is still a pretty quick car, especially for a driver with only a year under his belt).
The difference is, when I make a mistake with a slower car, it's not gonna be brutal. Since I've had a few problems in my driving over the years, I realize that they are possible and when things are probably going to go wrong. Especially with a nearly supercar-fast M3.
I know now to push this car to the limit or even what I think are
my limits. I've already learned a few of my limits and some general car limits, and I think that if I had learned them in an M3 as my first car, I might have crashed it, or had even closer calls. I'm lucky that I'm naturally a pretty sedate driver compared to my friends and stories I heard about other teenagers' idiocies.
"With great power(an M3) comes great responsibility," you've got to keep that in mind no matter what, especially with an m3 at age 16.