Jeep Wrangler for a teen

[Anonymous]

Why does your teenager get his “dream car?”
Your TEENAGER?

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Anonymous wrote:Those cars are crap. Poor safety features, poor reliability, not fuel efficient...I mean if you want to throw $ out the window on a crap car, then that's on you.

My sister got one 4 years ago for her kids. Brand new and it’s been an absolute pia the entire time. The engine light is always on for one thing or another.

I drove one in my 20s and I’m pretty sure it resulted in my hearing loss.

[Anonymous]

A jeep was my dream car when I was a teen. I saved up babysitting $ and work money from working at a nursing home for 3 years, and bought a 7 year old jeep for $8k. My Dad paid half and I repaid him on a monthly plan throughout college.

I wouldn’t be able to hand my child their dream car as a teen, give them something to work towards in this life.

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Anonymous wrote:I think in most cases it makes the most sense to give a kid a used car that you’ve been driving and get a new car for yourself. You could even Liease a new car for you assuming the kid will be going to college In a few years and won’t have a car

He has been driving the old car, but it's going to die soon as it's having many issues including a costly repair. Don't want to spend more on it. So we'd rather replace it now than in a rush when it truly is dead, and it will make summer logistics a lot easier. Whatever we are going to buy him will be used. I am a little surprised at the venom over this considering we're not even in a wealthy area and most teens get given cars of all kinds. We're ruralish and that is the only way to go to sports, work...Anyway, suggestions appreciated if the Jeep is that bad for safety reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of the older wranglers do not have safety features, including cameras/back up sensors. I would not put my child in this position given how high up the wrangler is and they could easily hit a child/animal. We have one and I will not let my children drive it.

If a driver can’t drive without a camera or backup sensors they need retraining.

Jeep Wranglers hold value extremely well.

They also are noisy, have a poor ride, fatiguing on long trips, have a bad reliability/maintenance reputation, and are less stable than a regular passenger car.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not. Get him a CRV.

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Anonymous wrote:The old ones didn't need backup cameras/sensors because you can just turn your head around and see. Modern cars have this stuff because they're so gigantic and have such poor visibility they basically require them.

Have an old Wrangler and let my teens dive it. Better visibility in it than other cars and they are safe. I have tried to drill into them how careful they have to be given that it is almost literally a tank.

“Almost literally a tank.”

Haven’t spent much time around actual tanks, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it an atrocious choice? Would be a few years old. It is ds's dream car.

I get my teens reliable, secure cars. Their dream car? of course not. They can buy their "dream car" when they have their own money. It will really be more "special" then.

What's your "dream" car OP? lol.

[Anonymous]

These jeep wranglers all over the mid Atlantic are insane. I don’t get it. Nowhere else in the country are there this many wranglers on the road. Does your kid want to stack rubber duckies on the dash too! Dont do it.

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Anonymous wrote:
1. All vehicles that sit high have terrible stats on collisions with pedestrians. The line of sight is all wrong to see shorter moving objects.

2. Rollover risk.

3. You really want to thumb your nose at environmental efforts? Don't buy that crap and be a hypocrite. Own the fact you don't care about global warming whatsoever, and don't care about people dying every year around the world from heat (direct cause).

Peds should GTF out of the road.

[Anonymous]

Rollover risk. The short wheelbase makes it an automatic no.

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My gear-head son suggests a Ford Bronco sport. It is cheaper, has less of a rollover risk, and still looks cool.

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DD is going to inherit DH's old Wrangler. It's as aerodynamic as your average box, and even I have to stand on the pedal to make it go at a reasonable speed, so we figured a slow moving box that barely fits 4 people is about right for a 90 pound 15 year old to drive.

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Anonymous wrote:These jeep wranglers all over the mid Atlantic are insane. I don’t get it. Nowhere else in the country are there this many wranglers on the road. Does your kid want to stack rubber duckies on the dash too! Dont do it.

That's the worst! The stupid ducks. I see so many mid 40s dads driving these jeeps all over Arlington. It's pathetic and they clearly only have them because it was their "dream" car as a teenager.

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Anonymous wrote:My gear-head son suggests a Ford Bronco sport. It is cheaper, has less of a rollover risk, and still looks cool.

They are more expensive than Jeeps. I like them too.