Do I need to buy DD a Jeep?

[Anonymous]

And here, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem with kids today.

And no, OP, do you do not need to buy DD a Jeep. If I heard any whinging at all after providing my children with a clean, safe, reliable car then I'd be taking it back and making them work for the money to buy their own the way DH and I did - regardless of what we can technically "afford". What we cannot afford is entitled children.

[Anonymous]

Jeeps are a ton of fun to drive in warm weather, and much safer than they used to be. and I still wouldn't trust anyone who hasn't been driving like 10 years to drive them consistently. there is a reason there is the stereotype of teens dying in them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can afford financially, you should. Same with at our school, the girls are crazy about their jeeps. I doubt it would hurt to surprise her on Christmas!

Do we live in the same world?

[Anonymous]

If you buy a Jeep, but the 2019 Rubicon. The 2019's have some good safety features. Don't cheap out on a lessor model. And, have it painted pink.

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Anonymous wrote:Buy her a pre 2010 wrangler with standard transmission and roll up windows. At least she should learn to shift gears and you can't text and drive with a gear shift. It's cooler, skill building and cheaper.

I don't think Jeeps of that vintage even have Electronic Stability Control. Just no.

[Anonymous]

She has a perfectly good car.

[Anonymous]

OP is a teen, and there is sock pupating.

[Anonymous]

Cheapest new one is $24,000. We offered to get one for our DD in HS but she insisted she didn’t need one. Got it second year of college and it was a much better idea.

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Anonymous wrote:Cheapest new one is $24,000. We offered to get one for our DD in HS but she insisted she didn’t need one. Got it second year of college and it was a much better idea.

That is not the price anymore.

[Anonymous]

Many of my daughter's friends are driving them too. They do seem to be the "it" car for teenage girls.

They are, however, pretty close to the worst thing you can buy for an inexperienced driver. I shudder when I see these new drivers tooling around in them.

[Anonymous]

You're kind of gross, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't buy her a car that she could not afford herself. Starting out in the career world (in the future) if her salary could not have purchased this car, you are setting her up for unhappiness, for feeling inadequate as a young person just starting out career wise. It gets her use to a standard of living that she, alone, can not support. She will need a "next" car after this one, and you want it to be something she's proud she bought on her own, to feel she's moving-up in the world on her own. Now, only you know the cost of the Jeep and what bells and whistles it has. Only you might/might not be able to ballpark a future starting salary --- but I think I've made my point. And I think without considering these points, it's bad parenting.

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I'll assume OP is sincere - so the answer is, absolutely not. It doesn't matter what you can afford or what all the parents around you are doing. It is your responsibility to raise a capable adult, and managing to buy your own car is one of the first, most important steps into adulthood. She has access to a perfectly serviceable and safe car now (which I hope is actually in your name, not hers), and if she wants more, she should earn the money to buy it. A reasonable compromise that many families who can afford it make, is to pay for half of a first car purchase (new or used).

We have a third car (used RAV4) that is MINE, for the use of teenage drivers in the household. Paid $10k for it, with a standing offer that a child may purchase it their sophomore year in college for $5k. Oldest child thinks the car is his, because he's had use of it for two years, despite numerous reminders otherwise. Oldest has no job and no savings and is unlikely to have $5k by next summer, which is his earliest purchase opportunity. Middle child wants the car. Middle child got a life guarding job this summer and saved $5k in three months already. We'll see where things stand in 3 years when middle can buy the car. Should be interesting. My point is, no matter who ends up with the car, they will have earned it and will have learned valuable life lessons, far beyond the temporary need to look good in front of high school peers.

[Anonymous]

Get her one. Why not? She deserves one!

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Anonymous wrote:DD REALLY wants a jeep wrangler, but they cost around $40,000 to get a new 4-door one! A ton of her friends have them and she apparently feels "sad" and gets "rude comments" about her car in the school parking lot since most of her friends either drive a Mercedes or Jeep, which I have seen true. Obviously that's a little much and a ton of spoiled kids... but I do feel bad because she's the only one from our neighborhood without one except one girl who drives a NEW Mercedes(nicer than my car ...) I don't want her to be spoiled but we do have the money, I just feel like giving a new car to a teenager is... a little whack?! Am I right?? She drives a 2014 Honda Civic but that's not even a bad car! She keeps saying its all she's going to ask for Christmas and her birthday, and DD #2 would get it when she drives(14 now). What would you guys do? BTW I drive a Honda Minivan.

If you buy your daughter a jeep than you know she is going to be spoiled! I don't even think they are safe. Are you the mom or the cool mom?

[Anonymous]

I swear this exact post was on the forum within the past 2 years.