You will crash is a bit of a stupid thing to say.
I never did other then hitting some diesel in a petrol station and that was slow. Other then that nothing.
I drive day in day out and worked out I did approx 32K miles in my first year.
Some people just get it others don't, for me, learning to drive in a non learner car is what did it, not having an instructor saying "don't accelerate too fast" and just taking bends a bit quick here and there with my boss saying "could have done that smoother" rather then "too quick" cause then you want to pass your test and just rag it.
I only had three lessons and my boss and dad teaching me was the best thing ever. No "oh it's a bit busy here, I'll drive" just get in and do it. I was fine with the manouvering and car placement on the road, went through widthbarriers at 30MPH from day one again, due to driving around carparks and such and just getting used to the size of vehicles.
Then going round carparks and private roads with roundabouts and stuff and just going to quick and losing control is what taught me. Nothing to hit, empty places and you just got a feel for the car and how suuddenly letting off the throttle results in the back overtaking the front.
IMO, it's not the car that will do it, it's the how you learnt to drive. Which is exactly why my mate smashed his van up, he just can't understand the concept of the van just spinning up round corners when the turbo kicks in. Yes it might not happen on a 1l Corsa, but could still lose that on a bend.
He's just jumped in a fairly powerful turbo diesel van, which is far quicker then my Golf (which will kill pretty much all of my other friends cars), with no supervision and is now driving it too fast cause he doesn't understand how the vehicle will react and "his dad takes the corner faster and he's fine" but his dad knows how to do it.
Try and get a learners policy and find some empty space and try and understand vehicle physics.
Now, out of 9 of us who drive, 7 have seriously smashed up their cars, lost it on bends or crashed it into others. The other two had far better experiance with learning.
