Teen driver car suggestions
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Anonymous
| What did you get yours? I am finding it really hard to narrow it down. I'd like something safe, but also a little bit exciting to get. Under 30k and used (2020 on) is fine. |
Anonymous
| He drove our two cars (one as old as he is, the other 5 years younger). |
Anonymous
That's what we are doing now, but I have two teens and between us and them, it's getting very complicated just having two. |
Anonymous
| You get the new car and give him the old one. |
Anonymous
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Actually, I gave my son the newer, nicer, safer car because I was young once and remembered how much it meant back then for me to have it.
I don't care that much now and I'm fine driving my Honda Civic beater. 
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Anonymous
I didn't want to complicate the post, but they (I have two drivers now) are now sharing our second car which is a 2010 so older (and working fine, we all like it!). We also have a newer car dh and I drive. The issue is kids have a lot of activities and different practices so sharing the second car does not cut it anymore. The new 3rd car and the used car we have now are both for them driving for the most part during the week especially. |
Anonymous
The bolded is ridiculous. If you need a third car, buy a third car you like, because they're probably not taking it with them to college. It will sit in your driveway. You buy it, and the easiest thing to do is probably share all three cars. That way people take whichever one is in the driveway at the time they need it. It makes them practice with different cars, and teaches them to keep the car clean for the next person. |
Anonymous
Hmm. Well clearly you've got your heart set on buying a car for your kids. So now it's a game of how many you're going to shoot down, since you're not giving us much to go on, apart from a potty mouth. Tesla with tax credit? Mazda of some kind? Dodge Excreta? What does "exciting" mean to you? What does it mean to your kids? Interesting that you don't tell us what they'd like. This is so obviously reliving the glory days for you. |
Anonymous
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We bought a Subaru crosstrek sport. Needed the hatchback for large musical instrument transportation.
Kid drives the Subaru I stead of my 12 year old minivan because it is safer/has many more safety features. Well aware he will not take it to college in two years, and I’ll drive it then. Littler one is 4 years from driving, so we might get another new car by then. Whatever is the most up to date safest car we own will be the one I put the new driver in. |
Anonymous
| We got a few years old Nissan Rogue. It had good safety features and was reasonably priced for the miles and age. We wanted a smaller SUV with leather seats and safety cameras. |
Anonymous
| Corolla Cross |
Anonymous
| Something safe. A BMW or MB or Volvo. Definitely not something cheap. Double your budget OP. |
Anonymous
| I had a six year old Ford Escape so my teen got that and I bought a three year old used, but nicer, SUV. |
Anonymous
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When I was younger I was home on front steps and a teen kid flew by my house at 60 mph not realized very sharp left ahead as street ending do to train tracks.
He went head on into the telephone phone at 60 mph and he shattered pole and it was hanging in air. Car was stick on mud and dirt b before tracks. Well police called tow truck driver they pulled it out and kid drove home. Looked like a 1971 Buick Electra 4 door. No air bags or antilock breaks just a few tons of steel |
Anonymous
| manual brz |