if price were no object, what car would you get a teen driver?

[Anonymous]

CRV or RAV4

[Anonymous]

Tesla 3.
Mazda CX-30. She will love CX-30.

[Anonymous]

BMW X2

[Anonymous]

Something with a manual transmission. You need both hands to drive, so texting or holding a phone is nearly impossible. And you don't really have to worry about their friends driving it, because almost none of them know how. I realize they're becoming harder to find, but my teen drives one, and I think they're worth looking for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Volvo. Safer.

Yes they are safe, however Volvo has climbed more upmarket now than in the 80/90ties, and pricewise cost the as MB's and BMWs, so it may be out the price range....perhaps.

[Anonymous]

My kid is getting my Audi Q7, which will be 4 years old at the time. I will be getting a non-mom car!

[Anonymous]

Off subject a bit but when my daughter was a senior in high school, she drove a 15-year old Honda Accord kept in good running condition by my mechanic. But when she went out at night, I was insistent she drive my high end car. Not to show off but because it had an SOS feature, live person GPS if needed, automatic call SOS if bumper accident, and a bunch of other safety features.

Though she preferred her own car, I just felt more at ease for her night driving safety at 17 if something vehicular happened, even with an AAA card.

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Anonymous wrote:CRV or RAV4

Three years ago, I bought a new CRV for myself and shared it with my teen daughter. My DD was driving the CRV to school one morning when an Uber driver blew a redlight and hit her broadside on the driver's side, going about 35 MPH. All airbags deployed and the car was completely totaled. It was a parent's worst nightmare, but miraculously, my daughter walked away unscathed. Really well-built and safe car!!

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Anonymous wrote:I recommend something newer and mid-size, whether a sedan or SUV. Smaller cars do less well in collisions with larger vehicles, simply due to their reduced mass. But, a larger and heavier vehicle may be less agile and have longer braking distances in an emergency, be more difficult to park, and be less fuel efficient. Older cars lack relatively recently-introduced important and effective safety features such as automated emergency braking, which can be life-saving if a newer (or indeed any) driver is momentarily inattentive or is caught by surprise in a situation where immediate and maximum brake application is called for. Additionally, new vehicles benefit from advances in safety cage/cell crash modeling and from improvements in metallurgy. That is, newer cars can be safer by virtue of improved designs and due to their fabrication with stronger structural components.

It's common but probably short-sighted to provide younger new drivers with old, small, cheap cars when what they really should have are the safest vehicles their parents can afford, even if the parents drive the older cars in the family. Those safest cars are almost always going to be the newest ones.

+1

-1 As a former teen male, I'm certain I was always safer overall driving a slower older car than a newer faster car with more safety features. At least until my mid twenties.

[Anonymous]

RAV4 or Atlas

[Anonymous]

whatever the manual transmission car with the worst HP/weight ratio is on the market (low HP, heavy curb weight).

So old pickup truck, since they don't make them with manuals anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something with a manual transmission. You need both hands to drive, so texting or holding a phone is nearly impossible. And you don't really have to worry about their friends driving it, because almost none of them know how. I realize they're becoming harder to find, but my teen drives one, and I think they're worth looking for.

I like this. Also, as a friend used to joke, don’t get a car with reclining seats so they don’t get too hot and heavy in it. YMMV.

[Anonymous]

Suburban

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Anonymous wrote:Tesla 3.
Mazda CX-30. She will love CX-30.

I just bought a CX-30 last month. Fresh out of the factory. LOVE it. Plan to give it to my now-10 year old when she gets her license in 6 years.

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Anonymous wrote:CRV, Mazda 5, RAV4.

This is our exact planned shopping list. Also want to look at hybrid versions where available.