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I will let anyone drive mine. If it goes wrong then I have a reason to buy another one

Had planned to do one up this year. Not had a good year though so had to forget about it for now. Eldest son has been driving my latest one. He now wants one. Told him I will buy him one after xmas. He drives a Corsa 1.2 at the moment, but only when he can't drive mine He now has 5 yrs no claims. Told him he must start on a N/A though.

Recently found out how much it has been costing me to let the wife drive mine. Missed lots of calls whilst at work. Noticed a text. I then called the wife to see what she wanted. She had been at a petrol station for about half an hour trying to find the lever to release the petrol cap

Well after repairing a tiny leak in one of the Brera's tyres (the compressor and latex stuff) she suddenly noticed you shouldn't drive it over 50mph. Errr... But she was happy enough to do so while the tyre wasn't repaired yet.

Anyway.

Last night she went to her mothers (an hour drive) and there we had it... she reluctantly used the Coupe because my sister destroyed her engine and is using the 147.

I won't feel at ease. What if something happens! You know if something happens it won't have been on purpose yes? I don't like driving it. Will you reverse it out the garage? And when I get back you put it back in? Anything I should pay attention too? What's all those dials about?

So hey - if this one moves while driving it's no good, when stationary it shouldn't go below 2 and that other one shouldn't go above 100. Stop if it does. If anything else happens, the car will stop for you. That's it. Try enjoying it.

Four hours later she returned, said she didn't dare driving on the steep driveway at her mum's for fear of breaking the lip and left it on the pavement, and when driving in the garage I noticed the fuel needle had dropped just one line. She averaged just under 7l / 100km.

Respect? Or you guys just contaminated her with the most severe case of Coupe paranoia?

Not respect, just severe fear of breaking your car

Last night, as I often do, I was giving the cheeky young oik in accounts a lift to his bus stop a couple of miles away when I just randomly said "you want to drive" and gave him the keys.
He was well chuffed.
We didn't get out of traffic enough for him to give it full beans but he dropped back a bit when he could then had a little turbo fun We're driving along and he says "this is only the second car I've ever driven!" I said "what, you've only driven your dads?" and he said "no this is the third. I used to drive a fiesta on my lessons"

I've no idea why i did that. He's only the second person to drive mine and the other one wa a fellow fccuker (though it was Craig so that was a bit scary too)

I've not read the last 3 pages but my answer is i've let some of my trusted friends have a drive but if the misses thinks she is going to ever get behind the wheel she can think again.

5 years of coupe ownership and not yet let a girl behind the wheel

she did say to me once "I know that if I drive it I will crash it" ... sealed that one then with a "never going to get a go then" and i've kept to my word

I don't blame you Karl, she hardly inspires confidence with those words