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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"you don't want them to buy an older car within their financial range"

This is wild. [/quote]

+1.  It's not like the old days where a car would break down and you would have to walk somewhere to a pay phone or accept rides from strangers.
Everyone carries a cell phone, you call a friend, get an Uber, or call your emergency road service.[/quote]

Yes that is true.  However, our kid had the car they learned to drive on--it became their car after college graduation.  It was 14 years old Honda.  2 years later, it had a few issues, nothing major but issues that cost and require you to drop car off and find a way to work.  This kid works a job where "working from home" is not really allowed.  They get a limited number of days to use for that per year and didn't want to need to use those for "car breaking down/car repairs".  And if the car doesn't start some morning, they could uber to work, but they'd still have same problem next day until they take half a day off to deal with the car issue.  
So we helped them buy a new car.  But we can afford to help.  If they had a job where they could "work from home/car repair shop" without issues, they likely wouldn't have gotten a new car at that point. 
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