P plates no high-powered cars

You can try to legislate ...but it appears to me that the more rules on type of car, the more hoon laws you bring in ..it just becomes more of a challenge. They'll still hot up the cars and do burn outs and wheelies as it is more of a risk now, a buzz.

And then there's this trend I see, when some kid has been killed in a car crash, obviously caused by reckless behaviour, for all his "friends" to to turn up and at the site leave notes and mementos, and get their faces on Today Tonight, idiolising, even martyring the dead kid. So he sort of turns out to be a hero.

i got told by cops that if you get caught doing a burnout then what ever car your in it is automatically impounded for 3 months even if it is someone elses car

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Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

i got told by cops that if you get caught doing a burnout then what ever car your in it is automatically impounded for 3 months even if it is someone elses car

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Should do like the Brit cops do - crush the car!

Let's see someone explain to his dad why the Ferrari is now a square block of metal!

A good mate of mine with lots of money.

Was looking into hot hatch.

ended up getting a gold r32 as the lower powered gti was not able to be driven by a P plater.

Being new to Australia and its sometimes strange laws.
Find it hard to see that everytime you put the news on and there is a crash its nearly allways a younger driver in a high Horse power car.
Over the pond in blighty they limit the number of horses you are allowed to drive rather than anything else apart from nothing above a 2ltr for <18 and you have to be 21 to drive > 2.5 Ltr.
But the biggest limiting factor is road insureance at 17 to drive a Coras 1.4 you would be looking at about $4.5K.
They limit the bikes in the same way and you can not ride an unrestircted bike untill you are over 21.
It seems to me limiting it to no V8's and No Turbo's is as some of you have said cutting a lot of resonably powered cars out of the list.
I am sure I would feel safer with a young person in my 85 V8 RRC than I would the same person in my Lancer EVO.

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Originally Posted by twigman

Being new to Australia and its sometimes strange laws.<snip>.

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Now there's something coming from a country where having windows in a Land Rover is considered luxury and which uses RAC horsepower to calculate registration.

That and all the funny place names you have over there! :wasntme:

My young bloke's first two cars were a VS Commodore 6 cylinder, and a 4 cylinder Honda Civic - and yes - he was a bit of a "hoon" at times in both of them. He was guilty at various times of all the usual - drag racing off the lights, laying a burnout etc. Hell - nothing more than I got up to when I was his age.

He now has a Mazda RX7 and a Landcruiser ute - and doesn't "hoon" in either of them - he's a few years older and got a bit more common sense.

Anyone who thinks that kids are not going to kill themselves in the type of vehicle that these new laws allow is seriously deluded.

Anyone who also believes that kids these days are doing anything significantly different than we, their parents, did at a similar age is probably also a hypocrite.

It all comes down to training and instilling a bit of common sense at an early age - stupid laws limiting the type of vehicle that they can drive will have bugger all effect.

Power to weight ratios won't work anyway. Its just a law, and people who drive like maniacs don't care about a little law. Just like our hoon laws in Vic, what have they done besides become a badge of honour??

Even GROWN men and women know that its illegal and DANGEROUS to drive over .05, but many many people still do.

These laws, like most laws, will just affect law abiding people and be a major PITA. Just like gun laws.

Education is only thing that will help, but you can't educate everyone. You can not remove "I am invincible!" from most young men.

I was following a P plater on Wednesday afternoon for about 3 km. That distance included a narrow bridge and a 2 round-a-bouts, with lots of traffic about.

For that distance the male driver had both hands in his hair the entire time. Didn't touch the steering wheel at all, must have been using his knees. Complete idiot..:twisted:

Let them all ride bicycles instead, teach them some respect.

Ron.

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Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

i got told by cops that if you get caught doing a burnout then what ever car your in it is automatically impounded for 3 months even if it is someone elses car

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48hrs in Vic, first offence, don't ask me how I know:angel: