Here's the answer to the last part of your post... Parents car = too bad. If your parents are nice enough that they don't kick you out or demand a new car from you, then lucky you. Company car = you owe the company a new car, or at least the remainder of the applicable lease plus the residual value. Finance = not the finance company's problem. You must continue paying the car off... As for the guy in the blue mountains, I see your point about not stopping the kid. But how many parents own a GTR etc, let alone would let their kid drive it after he just wrote his own machine off? I have no doubt this guy would still have been an idiot anyway... but would a 'normal' person have killed themselves and their passenger if they were forced to drive a 1989 camry instead? I wager not. Furthermore, if a normal person had been caught, charged (and had restrictions imposesed on them), and had their car repossessed - eg. been made an example of the first time around - do you think they would have a slightly different attitude behind the wheel than if they had simply got away with writing it off? x2 i agree with leroy on this, zero tolarence is the best bet to stop hooning/speeding no matter your circumstances. if u fall into the group above bad luck. as for driveing a camry id bet he would killed him self any way, its not the car its the driver