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Did teenagers become safer?

  • 01-02-2012 12:27am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭


    I don't know if it's just my perception or the recession, but did anyone notice that teenagers have become much calmer drivers than they used to be 4-5 years ago? Most of the guys I know drive ordinary Boras, Golfs, A3s, Astras and not the 1.3 Starlet "Glanzas" or the 1.4 V-TEC Type-R Civics.

    Or is it just that they can't afford fuel and tax anymore :pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    Fashion

    /thread closed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    I can't see relation between what car someone drives, and how safe he/she is!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭MickySticks


    Don't know if you've noticed but we are currently in the grip of a recession so there are a lot less teenagers driving and those that are are driving rust buckets.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Sorry, poor choice of words. Not only the cars but the way they drive. Aye, there's less teenagers on the road alright, but the ones I've encountered over the last year haven't been really that dangerous, aggresive or trying to show off behind the wheel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,562 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    The people who'd otherwise be driving those cars are either have no car, are driving whatever they can afford to keep on the road or have emigrated.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,144 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Sorry, poor choice of words. Not only the cars but the way they drive. Aye, there's less teenagers on the road alright, but the ones I've encountered over the last year haven't been really that dangerous, aggresive or trying to show off behind the wheel.
    FYI kinda linked tbh

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76372522#post76372522

    I've seen my fair share of eejits of all ages lately tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭longhalloween


    Regarding the choice of cars, the 4 door diesels are more popular now because buying costs, running costs, and tax is generally cheaper than4-5 years ago. Some of them have more punt than the usual boy racer cars.

    You're also less likely to attract the attention of the guards too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,797 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    They're gone to Australia to drive the upside-down equivalent of the felt spec Bora out there instead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    No money around to pay thousands a year on insurance alone is what i'd be thinking. That and a lot people getting out of this place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,479 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Most of them are probably just emigrating. Just look at the amount of felt spec stuff for sale on donedeal, etc.


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  • Subscribers Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭conzy


    Back in the construction boom every 17 / 18 year old lad in the country could afford all sorts of jap scrap and drive the **** out of it. Not many people between the age of 18-22 have much money now because they are in college, on the dole or emigrating


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭voojeq


    well looks like there is at least one good thing about the recession =]


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Remember a few years ago in Letterkenny on a saturday night, the main street would be jammed with boy racer sh1tboxes doing laps.

    Now it is clear. Remarkable difference in a few years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    salonfire wrote: »
    Remember a few years ago in Letterkenny on a saturday night, the main street would be jammed with boy racer sh1tboxes doing laps.

    Now it is clear. Remarkable difference in a few years

    Few of them still cruising around the Diamond in Donegal Town.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    those that are are driving rust buckets.

    As opposed to the brand new Glanzas and md 90's civics they were driving up till 07?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,562 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    As opposed to the brand new Glanzas and md 90's civics they were driving up till 07?
    Their current rust buckets have much less of an insurance loading than what they'd have previously driven and I'd bet that they're not spending money lowering them and adding expensive aftermarket alloys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Satanta


    its been a long time since I seen anything I'd consider a rust bucket. That term reminds more of the datsun cherry, opel cadett and ascona era. The cars these days just get battered looking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    They've simply switched from bodykitted jap cars to felt spec VAG cars, still loads around and still arse holes driving up and down towns just less on the road these days as with all age brackets.


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