What car did you buy your newly driving teen? Year, make?
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Anonymous
| This was a while ago but we got a 3 year old low mileage Honda CRV for DC. Safe and reliable. Sold it when it was 12 years old. |
Anonymous
| Used prices were crazy expensive and sometimes more than MSRP so we went with a 2022 toyota corolla hatchback with the rear-cross traffic alert package. |
Anonymous
Should add at MSRP |
Anonymous
I am considering this. I currently drive a few year old CRV with more mileage. I may have teen buy it from me and get something newer for myself. We are still a couple years out from this but I like the idea of them learning to drive on this car as well. |
Anonymous
**low mileage |
Anonymous
| I gave her a key to the vehicle I brought her home from the hospital in 16 years earlier. She turned her nose up at a stick and didn’t drive for awhile. |
Anonymous
| We’re passing our 6 year old accord with 25k miles down to our son and I’m getting a new car. It should last him through college. Our kids are 9 years apart so sharing with a sibling isn’t a tbing that we’ll need to navigate here as he’ll be 26 when his sibling can drive. |
Anonymous
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Uggg my teen drove my 11 year old Cadillac home from school this weekend. I have tracking and on way home I check how far away they are and it comes back car is moving 94 mph!!!!
For those who don’t know CTS Cadillacs they come with a “bulletproof” engine. The engine runs like day car was new. I had to sit down and explain everything else is 11 years old. Do you really want to trust your life in a 11 year old suspension, axle, brake parts etc. Only a teen would be driving 80-95 mph in a 11 year old car for 2-3 hours. I think my Cadillac has to make engine for both the car and driver |
Anonymous
You are selling your own used car to your own teen. Scrooge is alive and well |
Anonymous
I hope he can take it with him to college and maybe when he launches |
Anonymous
| 2004 Range Rover. We bought it new and didn't get rid of it just so she could have it. It's a tank |
Anonymous
| Don't err on the side of frugality by providing an older vehicle which lacks physical mass and modern safety features, including improved metallurgy in structural components, better safety cage design and performance, and important electronic safety aids like automated emergency braking, blind spot monitoring, and lane-change warning systems. In general, a new driver is much more likely to have an accident than middle-aged experienced drivers. A fender-bender is one thing, but some accidents can cause injuries or worse, and congratulating yourself on your financial acumen by providing a cheap old car to your child won't seem like such a brilliant idea in such a case. |
Anonymous
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I turned over my Wrangler to my kid and got myself a new one. You laugh but it is an excellent first car. Quite safe if driven responsibly and since ours is a manual, I'm not worried about texting, theft or her friends driving it.
Oddly, my own first car was a used BMW. Wouldn't recommend that now -- too tech'd out and a maintenance nightmare -- but the old ones were great. |
Anonymous
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Our teen driver drives our 15 year old Prius with 250k miles. "Runs good"
I'm hoping he will get sick of it and buy his own car before the younger one gets a license. |
Anonymous
Prius has a huge blind spot. Not the best car for a new driver. |