---
title: "UK Driving School Puts a 400-hp Bentley Arnage in its Fleet"
description: "Young Driver school says it wants kids to experience driving a large vehicle."
date: "2016-05-13"
modified: "2016-05-13"
authors:
  - name: "Jonathon Ramsey"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/jonathon-ramsey"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/3460/uk-driving-school-puts-a-400-hp-bentley-arnage-in-its-fleet"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "bentley"
  - "england"
---

# UK Driving School Puts a 400-hp Bentley Arnage in its Fleet

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In the UK, a teenager can get a provisional license (our Learner’s Permit) at 15 years and nine months old, but they can’t get their driver’s license until they're 17. License in hand, that teenager has a 20 percent chance of being in an accident within six months, and even though teens cover just five percent of the total miles driven in Britain they’re [involved in roughly 20% of fatal](<https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-24485792>) and serious injury accidents. Enter [Young Driver](<https://www.youngdriver.eu/index.php/home>); a driving school for 11 to 17 year olds that provides behind-the-wheel experience before kids have to get it the crashy, expensive way. Starting this month, Young Driver attendees can get that experience behind the wide, leather-stitched steering wheel of a Bentley Arnage.

Young Driver’s standard fleet is composed entirely of [the subcompact Skoda Citigo hatchback](<https://www.skoda.co.uk/about-us/young-driver>), so [the company says](<https://www.youngdriver.eu/index.php/news/57>) the point of the Bentley is to give the young’uns a taste of driving a (much, much) larger vehicle. With that rationale, we expect Young Driver to add a Lamborghini Aventador next, so that kids can experience all-wheel drive.

Other than being fitted with dual controls, the Arnage is the same 17.7-foot long, 5,700-pound, 400-horsepower brougham piloted by everyone from Jennifer Lopez to Rio Ferdinand. The only requirement to get a lesson in an Arnage is for the student to have completed one hour of instruction in the Citigo – that 60-minute Citigo lesson costs £64.95.

![051316-driving-school-bentley-arnage-art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/051316-driving-school-bentley-arnage-art.jpg>)
**Admiral Young Driver**

To entice parents to sign up for what appears to be a monumental boondoggle, mothers and fathers can ride in the back of the Bentley during their kids’ lesson. In doing so, they’d join rear-seat Arnage luminaries like Queen Elizabeth II and Thomas Crown, albeit with a slight downgrade in the chauffeur department. The price for the privilege doesn’t seem so bad, a 30-minute lesson running £49.95, with 60-minute lessons available.

Young Driver will offer the Arnage at six of its 42 locations, the first opportunity comes at Stoneleigh Park on May 21.

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