A car like that is a very high precision, and dangerous tool. I would never give it to a young driver. Certainly not if you care for them. Most (non-alcohol) collisions involve 16-24 year old drivers. When I was young your dad insisted that if you get a car at 16 it will be an older beater cuz it’s going to get dinged up. Certainly not a speed monster.
My son got a 24 year old Chevy pickup truck when he turned 16...He painted it with a tobacco sprayer...
Somebody told him that his paint had a “unique” texture to it...
He told the guy it was a “custom paintjob”...ROFL
They rent those exotics in Scottsdale and you see them often during the January- April months. I was sitting at a stoplight and a white Lambo came rolling up to the turn lane to the left of me. Two guys in it, prob 30-ish, probably in town for spring training. When the light changed, I heard the gears grind painfully and the guy popped the clutch as he moved out into the intersection and I saw the car literally hopscotch to the right. LOL...I think the old lady in the lane across from us probably wet herself. I sat there laughing, thinking, “That’s a really suave way to learn to drive a stick...macho grande!”
I would hate to know the insurance rates for that kid, they would be enormous.
A kid that lived near me about 25 years ago was given a new Firebird Trans Am for his 16th birthday. A week later he was topping a small hill at 110 mph on a narrow country road, lost control, and slammed sideways into a utility pole. He didn’t make it.
My sons’ first cars were a 1988 Olds Delta 88, a 1989 Honda Civic, and a 1992 Buick Century.