What car should a young drummer buy?

Moto2

Peugeot 307SW

The seats come out if required and the serious amounts of room
About as cool as a beige cardigan though.

Mercdriver

baza52 wrote: »

get a small car and use a trailer for the kit.

He will need to pass a further test to tow a trailer. A normal driving licence only gives provisional entitlement to trailer towing.

onomatopoeia99

If you pass the B test that includes a limited trailer entitlement, but it's considerably more limited than the B+E us old people have.

It includes unbraked trailers up to 750kg MAM (so called "small trailers") and it is not a provisional entitlement.

Herzlos

Depends entirely on the car/trailer. New license (2013 on?) are capped at 3500kg total, so a hatchback with something like an a 500kg box van (link) should be legal, if the hatchback has a total weight of under 3000kg (more than likely). If you need anything bigger, you'll likely be into B+E territory

silverwhistle

bigpat wrote: »

And I mentioned a Berlingo too but was laughed out of the room. Seriously uncool Dad!

Pah! My first car at a lot older was a £100 Marina. Worrying about looking uncool for having the wrong motor is for middle class types who work in a boring office and worry about what other people think about them and are wage slaves because they have massive loans for keeping up with the Joneses.

If other people think your car is uncool, they're really not cool themselves..

That's the approach I think you're going to have to take..:D. Actually my first thought was that he'll probably have to take out a loan for the insurance..

loskie

baza52 wrote: »

get a small car and use a trailer for the kit.

good call something like this and a cheap to insure hatchback
https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-vans-plants-trucks/bateson-high-speed-box-trailer/1138137899

Herzlos

Very few hatchbacks can take a 750kg trailer unbraked. That would take everything they need and then some, but it's a big trailer.

Plus, I thought having a terminally uncool first car was part of the right of passage? I had a white Rover 418

959Rich

There is only one car for the job... a 2nd hand hearse.

Immediate street credibility when you turn up at a gig in a hearse. Room for all band members plus plenty space in the back for the gear.

Always been serviced, cleaned & polished every day. Driven carefully...never flogged.

You can pick them up for a song (sorry) in great condition. Pimp the ride and the lads will love it.

Daz2009

If you get a car I'd get the windows tinted/blacked out where possible,you don't want anybody looking in and seeing all that expensive gear in the back.A van would be better in this respect.

bigjl

Can't see how the idea of whatever car he wants with a Trailer can be bettered.

Good call.