[quote=Foster]
Yeah, but if you're 16, a car, and being able to take it out on saturday afternoons and drift around on the ice with it... or enroll in competitive drag-races with it... is a pretty big deal...Heck, even if you're 43 and going through a midlife-crisis... getting top-score in is probably worth bragging aboot, don'tcha-know.edit: 
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If you're 16, you're still not an adult and have a long life ahead of you, ideally.

I mean, when you can't vote, buy booze, have your full driver's license, or own a gun, I think it's pretty safe to say you aren't indicative of the majority of the population. 

Also, if any kid has a car at 16, they either A) have no plans of going to college or university, B) have rich parents, C) Were gifted a hand-me-down from a relative, or D) no concept of money if they plan on doing more than own that car.

Back in Ontario, you can't drive on your own until you get your G2 license, which still limits when you're allowed to be on the road, how many people you can have in the car, and access on certain highways (unless they changed all that in the past 3 years or whatever). 

It's not until you get your full license that you're really free to do whatever you want. So, whenever I saw a kid in high school who had a car, I wasn't really impressed. I thought they had poor decision making skills, which for the most part came out being true.