Originally Posted by pound

Yes even if you live with your parents. It's a pure liability, the insurance will be sky high, you got petrol, tax, mot and servicing to factor in too.

Take that money and put a deposit down on a house, put tenants in and go off to uni. In 4 years time you'll be leaving uni with a house that someone's been paying off for you and has enough equity in it too buy you a a brand new mercedes