what used care ($20k or so) is cool for teens?

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Anonymous wrote:The winner has been named many times over. Go get a Mazda3 already. I'd buy this car over and over again. I might buy mine back as I sold a perfectly great car for $1200. It had a little over 100k on it.
$10k for used car. Invest the other $10k in ethereum and good to go.

Go for manual transmission for cool factor.

They are so hard to find now and can be more expensive because it's a niche option. I bought a manual two years ago, and the choices were really limited.

TSX 6-speed manual — awesome car

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Anonymous wrote:The winner has been named many times over. Go get a Mazda3 already. I'd buy this car over and over again. I might buy mine back as I sold a perfectly great car for $1200. It had a little over 100k on it.
$10k for used car. Invest the other $10k in ethereum and good to go.

Go for manual transmission for cool factor.

They are so hard to find now and can be more expensive because it's a niche option. I bought a manual two years ago, and the choices were really limited.

TSX 6-speed manual — awesome car

Went with its poorer cousin, the Accord Sport - TSX with manual was discontinued in 2014.

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Anonymous wrote:Camaro convertible for Boys wrangler convertible for girls.

Wranglers are not convertibles.

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Porsche Boxster manual. Small, easy to drive and can’t seat more than one passenger to remove the distractions. Get the base model.

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Get them a pick up truck. Limited room for peers / distractions - and you have the flexibility to have a truck when you need to haul something.

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Anonymous wrote:You never, ever buy a teen a car based on what is cool. Most cool cars are dangerous because they are flip hazards or they are not made for inexperienced drivers or they are not made for the type of driving/parking you need to do in the DMV.

I say something along the lines of a camry or accord, or maybe a CRV or Rav4

I agree - parents who talk about getting their teen a "cool" car are focused on making sure their teen is the "cool" kid and they need to get a life. My kid drives an old Camry - it has ABS, front and side curtain airbags, and a rear-view camera. It is not cool, and it will serve him reliably and well, and he should be thankful to have a car. Also, he pays for his own gas. Kids need to have some skin in the game.

Exactly! I force my kids to grown his own rice, which he does with irrigation trenches he dug by himself. Last year, he lost his crops to locusts but, hey, he needs to have some skin in the game if he wants to eat.

Stupid comment - feel free to spoil your kids and see how that works out.

The point being, which you obviously missed, is that compared to all generations past, the things we do for our kids that we consider to be normal, would be considered as "spoiling our kids". The issue is not the resources that we provide to our kids, but what we teach our kids in terms of how to care for and utilize those resources. Artificially restricting or boosting the things we give to our kids is a poor substitute for good parenting.

No, you obviously don't get it - this isn't an either/or thing. You can instill good parenting, and at the same time not give your kid every little thing that she wants. I've seen your type of parenting in my neighborhood, and very often those kids have demonstrated that they're not prepared for the real world where mommy and daddy can't give them everything that they want. But you do you.

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Toyota FJ cruiser

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Anonymous wrote:You never, ever buy a teen a car based on what is cool. Most cool cars are dangerous because they are flip hazards or they are not made for inexperienced drivers or they are not made for the type of driving/parking you need to do in the DMV.

I say something along the lines of a camry or accord, or maybe a CRV or Rav4

I agree - parents who talk about getting their teen a "cool" car are focused on making sure their teen is the "cool" kid and they need to get a life. My kid drives an old Camry - it has ABS, front and side curtain airbags, and a rear-view camera. It is not cool, and it will serve him reliably and well, and he should be thankful to have a car. Also, he pays for his own gas. Kids need to have some skin in the game.

Exactly! I force my kids to grown his own rice, which he does with irrigation trenches he dug by himself. Last year, he lost his crops to locusts but, hey, he needs to have some skin in the game if he wants to eat.

Stupid comment - feel free to spoil your kids and see how that works out.

The point being, which you obviously missed, is that compared to all generations past, the things we do for our kids that we consider to be normal, would be considered as "spoiling our kids". The issue is not the resources that we provide to our kids, but what we teach our kids in terms of how to care for and utilize those resources. Artificially restricting or boosting the things we give to our kids is a poor substitute for good parenting.

No, you obviously don't get it - this isn't an either/or thing. You can instill good parenting, and at the same time not give your kid every little thing that she wants. I've seen your type of parenting in my neighborhood, and very often those kids have demonstrated that they're not prepared for the real world where mommy and daddy can't give them everything that they want. But you do you.

PP here. Maybe you should heed your own advice? Giving my kids a car that's cooler than an old Camry isn't the same as giving my kid every little thing he/she wants. Stop imagining how poorly other people parent their kid just because they made different decisions from you regarding the kind of car to give the kid. I hope this judgy attitude doesn't rub off on your kids.