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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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-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.[/quote]

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