Wow i woulod have t hought for sure a thread like this would have been started by a 17 yr old. Nice 1 james and welcome.
If you are looking at it in financila point of view the answer is a resounding NO!
If you are looking at it in a "im only young once" perspective its a YES.
They do cost way more than youd be used to with the lancer in fuel, maintainence (every 5000 instead of 10,000 and higher quality materials) and then there is the whole bottle neck theroy where you just go from one mod to the next at breakneck speed.
All in all they are fun, instead of going out for drink on saturdays i used to find myself going for a drive, they are fun indeed.
Justy gotta try not to do anything stupid in teh first year where most ppl get over confident and make a "w00t" kinda sound directly before hitting some inanimate object, come on most of us have.