Best car for first time driver?

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Subaru Forester - I have two of them. Check with a dealer about one coming off a three year lease with under 25k miles. But right now they are in high demand as are all used cars.

[Anonymous]

Our newest driver got a new Prius with all the safety features and safety bells and whistles. Best decision ever. I would never give my kid an older car without all the safety features. My kid is more important that the car.

[Anonymous]

Only on DCUM do teenage drivers get a brand new new Prius

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely Tesla. Nothing is safer. Nothing.

Why?

[Anonymous]

What happened to the DC Learns on the existing fam car?

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Anonymous wrote:Our newest driver got a new Prius with all the safety features and safety bells and whistles. Best decision ever. I would never give my kid an older car without all the safety features. My kid is more important that the car.

Such an a-hole post. I guess the rest of us don't give a sh-t for our kid's safety.

[Anonymous]

Rav 4 is perfect. Sits up higher but still smaller. The hybrid one had good pick up.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom, a professional driver of over 40 yrs with no issues driving almost got side swiped by a speeding driver. I am a baby driver about to get my dl. I want a safe car with backup cameras that is a mini suv of suv. Any recommendations?

Can you say more about your mom? Is she a drag racer or a long haul trucker? Its usual for a woman professional driver in the 1970s.

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Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM do teenage drivers get a brand new new Prius

I got a brand new prius as my first car (this was 20 years ago). It seemed as my car throughout high school, college, and when I started work. It was a good investment. Toyotas are considered reliable, not fancy

[Anonymous]

1971 Buick Estate Wagon

I drove when 17 and hit a building. A few bricks came off building but my 7,000 pound nine passenger wagon not a scratch

[Anonymous]

Gave mine my old Jeep. Manual transmission and none of the nanny crap. The best way to make a car safe is by making the driver safe. Teach them to drive right and force them to concentrate.

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Anonymous wrote:Our newest driver got a new Prius with all the safety features and safety bells and whistles. Best decision ever. I would never give my kid an older car without all the safety features. My kid is more important that the car.

Prius is a great car. The only issue, and since I own one I know first-hand, is it's too slow. You really have to factor this in when pulling onto highways and into traffic. There's a power mode button, which will give your acceleration a boost, but you have to factor that in. The extra boost isn't there in the pedal, it's a button that you have to push.

As for safety features in a car, they're great, but they also come at a cost. For example, I once drove with somebody in a rental that didn't have a backup camera. The young driver had never driven without a backup camera and kind of froze- didn't know what to do. Granted, she's a really bad driver and I don't even ride with her if she's driving (that's another story), but while backup cameras, collision avoidance and lane change sensors/cameras are great, there is some tradeoff.

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Anonymous wrote:Gave mine my old Jeep. Manual transmission and none of the nanny crap. The best way to make a car safe is by making the driver safe. Teach them to drive right and force them to concentrate.

That's the argument used by the car companies in the 1960's to fight against laws requiring seat belts and such. "The most dangerous part of a car is the nut behind the wheel."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our newest driver got a new Prius with all the safety features and safety bells and whistles. Best decision ever. I would never give my kid an older car without all the safety features. My kid is more important that the car.

Prius is a great car. The only issue, and since I own one I know first-hand, is it's too slow. You really have to factor this in when pulling onto highways and into traffic. There's a power mode button, which will give your acceleration a boost, but you have to factor that in. The extra boost isn't there in the pedal, it's a button that you have to push.

As for safety features in a car, they're great, but they also come at a cost. For example, I once drove with somebody in a rental that didn't have a backup camera. The young driver had never driven without a backup camera and kind of froze- didn't know what to do. Granted, she's a really bad driver and I don't even ride with her if she's driving (that's another story), but while backup cameras, collision avoidance and lane change sensors/cameras are great, there is some tradeoff.

I had a 2011 Toyota Prius. I liked it a lot, but too large of a blind spot, bad visibility out rear window, and slow acceleration make it not ideal for a first time driver.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our newest driver got a new Prius with all the safety features and safety bells and whistles. Best decision ever. I would never give my kid an older car without all the safety features. My kid is more important that the car.

Prius is a great car. The only issue, and since I own one I know first-hand, is it's too slow. You really have to factor this in when pulling onto highways and into traffic. There's a power mode button, which will give your acceleration a boost, but you have to factor that in. The extra boost isn't there in the pedal, it's a button that you have to push.

As for safety features in a car, they're great, but they also come at a cost. For example, I once drove with somebody in a rental that didn't have a backup camera. The young driver had never driven without a backup camera and kind of froze- didn't know what to do. Granted, she's a really bad driver and I don't even ride with her if she's driving (that's another story), but while backup cameras, collision avoidance and lane change sensors/cameras are great, there is some tradeoff.

I had a 2011 Toyota Prius. I liked it a lot, but too large of a blind spot, bad visibility out rear window, and slow acceleration make it not ideal for a first time driver.

I have a 2013 Prius. Great car, but wouldn’t recommend for a new driver for reasons you mention. Terrible acceleration, which can get you in trouble if you aren’t real careful. That blind spot on the passenger side is the worst. I love Toyota’s, but I don’t know how that ever made it to the assembly line?