Here in OZ, even the V6S is illegal in the first two years of your drivers license, which is sensible. For the first two years of my driving I drove a 1.5 liter 4 cylinder Hillman Hunter and even in that I managed to get it sideways several times.

I strongly recommend you don't want the V8. I have 33 years of driving experience including a number of performance driving training etc and I find the V6 to be easily as much as I need and more than I can handle if I drive it anywhere near its limits.

If you do buy the R for gods sake please be very careful far too many young people die on the roads and it's almost always a combination of inexperience and speed.

 

Passing along a suggestion in the same vein as the others, spend half that money on a decent racecar and go SCCA road racing a dozen weekends each summer and get some professional racing instruction. After 5 or ten years of that you will not only be able to properly handle most cars, but also react to traffic around you. If I didn't have the regulating influence of a significant other, I would be driving around in a pickup truck and spending all my Jag money on racing anyway.