Should You Buy a Powerful Car Right After Passing Your Driving Test?

For many people, the first car they drive themselves is a driving school car. After passing the driving test, they can sit behind the wheel of any car, and the issue of personal driving becomes relevant. The experience is still small, but many young drivers dream of a powerful and luxurious car. Is it worth buying something like that right away, or should you practice with something simpler?

In Latvia, the majority of drivers start their journey with compact hatchbacks, such as “Audi A3”, “Volkswagen Golf” or “Kia Ceed”, because they make up the majority of driving school fleets. They are compact and easy to maneuver, so they are easy to operate for a person with little experience. True, driving schools have such models not only because of simplicity and more attractive operating costs.

“Schools try to choose the kind of cars that are used in the CSDD driving test at that time. You could say that CSDD dictates fashion, because the new drivers believe that if they take the exam with the same model they learned to drive, it will be easier,” he says. Director of DBS Autoskola, Jānis Vanks.

If the driving school car is not the same as CSDD, then at least it has