I'm 17 years old, but I'm turning 18 in a few months. I was on Autotrader and I found a 1996 Acura 3.2TL on a used car lot in Los Angeles. I'm not planning on buying it, but I'm very curious about what it's like to drive one. I'm just not sure if the dealer would let me take it for a test drive around the neighborhood in it. Is it possible if they would let me? please reply.
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Can someone under 18 test drive a car?
- Thread starter Joseph J
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Car salespeople wait all day for customers and a lot of the time they are in a rotation system where they only get one customer or two in an entire day. You going to a car lot to look at a car you have no intention in buying is basically taking food out of the salesman's kids mouths. You can legally test drive as long as you have a license but if you are on your own and are under 18 unless you had the money, cash in your pocket to show me if I were the salesperson I wouldn't let you test drive anything without your parents as 17 is too young to finance a car and you would be probably (definitely in your case) be wasting my time and money. If you really want to drive it take 20 bucks with you, be honest with the salesperson and go on a quiet morning like a tuesday (Not a weekend day!) and offer him 20 bucks for his time if he lets you drive it with him in the car. That he might agree to. Don't wait til you are on the lot looking at cars tho because his "up" is already used by that point ask him straight up front.
Big Bill Haywood
New member
you need a license to test drive a car, it doesn't matter what your age is.
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shmoople
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No sorry but they wont.what you can do is have one of your parents or guardians drive it and have them tell you what they think about it.