If this is your first car, you are a long way from being able to recognise the difference between a highly tuned car and a stock one.
Your concentration should be
one hundred percent on racking up experience in all conditions and types of roads. Absolutely nothing else matters right now. It's irrelevant what car you have when you're new to driving, so I'm all for having something crappy to start with until you've built up the experience.
Best to start slow and build up. I've just put new adjustable shocks on my car and have left it as standard for a month while I adapt to it. It's only now that I feel like I've learnt enough about the car as it is to start making adjustments and be able to tell what the difference is.
I don't mean any of this in a derogatory way. I absolutely love driving but I always take it very seriously, because the moment you forget that hurtling along in a ton and a half of hot steel and glass is an incredibly dangerous act, you are in serious trouble.
Young drivers do have a lot of accidents, which you'll probably hear a lot of, but that's not simply because they are all shit drivers. Often it's because they don't spot a danger in time, or their concentration is elsewhere, such as on their shiny new DVD player in the dash