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Some people will og out on a test drive and hammer it, whilst others will treat it with respect. Funnily enough I took a Mini out about a month after I passed my test and drove it within speed limts etc, took a Type S out (as they didn't have an R to test drive for another 2 months) and didn't thrash it, was heavy traffic. Took a Type R out, had 22 miles on the clock, dealer thrashed it on an open bit of road, I got into it and got stuck behind a learner driver doing 25! So I never thrashed it.
Only car I think I ever thrashed and even then I was in 6th gear was an RX8 230, it was a Sunday afternoon and the bypass was full of Sunday drivers and I had to get a feel for it before it went back as i'd been stuck in traffic. That car tho was the pits as the guy who had it treated it like a dustbin! It was manky!
I would happily buy a demo car as long as it wasn't a Type R, Focus St etc, but then thinking about it most would probably buy a second hand car and how do we know its not been thrashed from new but still looks ace from the outside?
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