21 yr old driving 1600cc car. Is it legal?

atrixblue.-MFR-.

gord115 wrote: »

My 17 year old son has just passed his test last month and is after a 1600cc car. Octavia or Corolla.

any 1.6cc apart from granddaddy car types will send a 17yr old premium sky high, corolla for me is one the most expensive vehicles to insure im 30 with 4 years NCB premiums sit at about £1200 per year. I can see allot of decline to insure quotes for those pair of vehicles for a 17yr old.

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Cherokeebluesome wrote: »

when I accompanied my daughter last November to purchase her current vehicle, at the time she mentioned that since the vehicle was 1600cc then neither of the grandsons would be able to drive it due to restrictions that I alluded to in the post.

Many years ago, when I was living at home, my father had "Any driver" cover on his Jaguar, but both I and my brother were named on the policy as excluded from driving (We were both under 21)
I don't know why the "Any driver" policy couldn't simply state "Any driver over 21" but it didn't.

Apples2

I'm struggling to think of anything a 21 yr old is prohibited from doing.

Richard53

Apples2 wrote: »

I'm struggling to think of anything a 21 yr old is prohibited from doing.

Riding a motorcycle over 47 bhp without the necessary A category licence might be one.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

any 1.6cc apart from granddaddy car types will send a 17yr old premium sky high, corolla for me is one the most expensive vehicles to insure im 30 with 4 years NCB premiums sit at about £1200 per year. I can see allot of decline to insure quotes for those pair of vehicles for a 17yr old.

Insuring our girls at 17 in a 1.6 Golf was pretty cheap - even though that is a 120bhp, 120mph car.

It is a cooking 1.6SE VW Golf and it seemed that insurers thought it was a suitable car for young people to drive.

A friend of ours has an H reg Merc for the kids (that they owned from new) and that is very reasonable to insure too.

Apples2

Richard53 wrote: »

Riding a motorcycle over 47 bhp without the necessary A category licence might be one.

Driving a car without the necessary licence is another, but the correct licence is in place and not relevent to being 21.

BillJones

Apples2 wrote: »

Driving a car without the necessary licence is another, but the correct licence is in place and not relevent to being 21.

The license route is different for under 21s, though, so the "thing" that they can't do is to take the same route to a license as older people can.

jimjames

Cherokeebluesome wrote: »

Hi all thanks for all your replies. I'm sorry that to some people my post as come across as unwarranted and needless but the reason I asked was when I accompanied my daughter last November to purchase her current vehicle, at the time she mentioned that since the vehicle was 1600cc then neither of the grandsons would be able to drive it due to restrictions that I alluded to in the post. Then last week in a telephone conversation she remarked that grandson No.2 was out in the said car. I didn't say anything at the time apart from was he insured to drive it, which she said yes. It was only last night that I thought about it and realised that I genuinely didn't know whether he was allowed to drive the car. Hence my post. In hindsight I probably would have been better just googling my question and thus some of you would not have been inconvenienced, although that could have been achieved if the some had not posted a reply.

Which country are you/they in?

King_Nothing

Engine size is just one parameter for insurance companies. I'm looking to replace my Focus for a smaller cheaper to run car, so that I can save up a house deposit. How it's going to cost me more to insure a 68hp C1 than it does to insure a 221hp Focus, I'll never understand, well I do, it's down to a lot of claims on C1's due to new drivers, but that's unfortunately the way insurance works for some reason.

Car_54

BillJones wrote: »

The license route is different for under 21s, though, so the "thing" that they can't do is to take the same route to a license as older people can.

Eh? Can you please explain?