..or tell them if they want a car then go get a part time job and buy one.<p>My first car cost my £50 (and £1100 to insure..). As it was 20 year old heap of junk, every other month something would break, and I&#x27;d have to look up how to fix it and then go down to the scrap yard with a socket set, £20 in my pocket and pull that part off a scrapped car.<p>I learnt how to fix cars and I never had a crash because I knew it would mean certain death in that danger machine.