Not at the grand old age of 17 it won't be as he's quite rightly pointed out he will get shafted for insurance!

It's all going to come down to what you can afford for insurance, luckily the base spec models are quite insurance friendly! You're going to be stuck in a Mk1 (old shape) and my personal recommendation would be anything with the 1.6 engine. It'll be quick enough around town and capable on the motorway but is still pretty cheap to insure, easy to service/maintain and can be quite good on fuel when you need it to be, just don't bother trying to get mahoosive power out of it. I wouldn't bother with the 1.4 as it's extemely weedy and underpowered for what is quite a heavy car (costs more in fuel!) and the spec on the 1.4's is dire! It goes without saying you're not gonna want to mod it as your insurance will be bad enough to begin with, you don't want your insurance tarring you with the 'boy racer' brush as well and hiking up your premiums!

Once you've got a couple of years no claims under your belt you can move up to something like a 2.0 litre and start having a tinker

PS. Every Focus is fitted with a Zetec engine but there are 2 different types..........the larger Zetec-E unit which is shared with the Mondeo and the smaller 1.4/1.6 Zetec-S/SE which is shared with the Fiesta and Puma.