Which car would you recommend for a young male driver?

Forget about the male/female thing and go for something that has a good reputation for reliability and, above all else, good safety equipment as standard. Younger drivers are seriously over-represented in crash statistics, and a car with the right safety equipment is the only way to go.

Don’t forget, there are two types of safety; active and passive. The active safety gear refers to things like stability control, autonomous emergency braking and blind-spot monitoring. Passive safety, meanwhile, deals with the equipment needed when the crash has become inevitable, so things like airbags.

Because safety gear has become more and more important in recent years, the rule of thumb is that a later model car is going to be better than an earlier one which might have missed out on some of the equipment. As a bare minimum, however, don’t even consider a car without side airbags and stability control. The good news is that these pieces of safety gear have been around for a long time now, so they can now be found in even cheaper second-hand cars.