Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have Defenders. One brand new and one is a classic. Their friends love them.

I bet. I hope you are wealthy enough to truly afford this, and not making yourself car (house and everything else) poor for the status?

I know plenty of people like this (I've even made expensive idiotic purchases for all the wrong reasons, so throwing no shade here) but it's unfair to the DCs. Expectations will always be skewed.

That aside, I love Defenders.

My family is very well off and the cars are not a stretch on top of 4 private school tuitions, a house on what I think is the best street in DC, a place in ACK and a place in Montana. The cars go with the beach house especially.

My DH sold one business for about 250 mm and then started another that is now humming along very nicely. A G650 would be a stretch but not a couple of cars.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have Defenders. One brand new and one is a classic. Their friends love them.

I bet. I hope you are wealthy enough to truly afford this, and not making yourself car (house and everything else) poor for the status?

I know plenty of people like this (I've even made expensive idiotic purchases for all the wrong reasons, so throwing no shade here) but it's unfair to the DCs. Expectations will always be skewed.

That aside, I love Defenders.

The new defender is soulless and far too expensive for the true purpose. Worse, for the price of a new defender, I could build a wrangler that would wheel circles around a defender and have money left over to lend to my friend who has a defender when his electrical system goes to sh!t. Plus, I can get the wrangler with the proper number of pedals.

Anonymous wrote:My kids have Defenders. One brand new and one is a classic. Their friends love them.

I bet. I hope you are wealthy enough to truly afford this, and not making yourself car (house and everything else) poor for the status?

I know plenty of people like this (I've even made expensive idiotic purchases for all the wrong reasons, so throwing no shade here) but it's unfair to the DCs. Expectations will always be skewed.

That aside, I love Defenders.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cool kids don’t need to driver. They Uber everywhere.

-parent of a cool kid.

Are they cool and uber as they have lazy rich parents who don't teach them to drive.

Yes, we’re well off. They don’t NEED to learn to drive, unless they simply want to. But driving yourselves vs having a driver is one of the things that separate the commoners from the upper tier.

Fake. And troll. What rich kid doesn't at some point want a cool car? Unless you grew up and live in NYC, in which case, most don't have a car, and there's really no need to learn to drive.

My high school in the 1970s had Mercedes, Jaguars, BMWs, muscle cars.

I had a convertible. Cool kids has high end German cars or high powered cars like corvettes, chevelles and cudas.

The Smokey and the Bandit black TransAm T-tops were king.

My favorite my friend had a 1971 Buick GS Stage 1 - we hit 145 mph on a McDonalds run. Why did his parents let him have that who knows. Bet it is worth a fortune today.

It is not a new thing. Today G Wagons and restomod 1970s Broncos and Tesla’s rule HS with next tier wranglers.

Any old car not being used at the summer beach house - usually the old Volvo or old land cruiser. Big enough to fit all the “cool” friends inside. And, OP, if you have to ask then your kid is not “cool.” And buying him a “cool” kid car won’t make him cool. You should be more worried if your kid is happy and well adjusted - and a safe driver. Not what superficial means you will supply DC to artificially prop up his confidence.

From the absolute garbage driving I see going on every day out on the roads....the smart kids should be driving heavy, safe vehicles and taking a defensive driving class.

One moron had my DD in the car and thanks to life 360 I clocked him doing 92 on a suburban road. She will not be in a car with him again no matter what he drives if he does not want to see it bashed in with a baseball bat.

Anonymous wrote:I thought just having a car in high school made you cool. I wouldn’t know, I was a loser and didn’t drive at that age

Kids right and left turn down working cars because they don't like the brand or the age of the car. But that is more spoiled brat than cool.

^ yeah like they are calling a uber to pick up their friends? And showing up to each event with an Uber?

Uber was the equal sign that you couldn’t afford a car lol

Now, chauffeured with a dedicated driver in a SUV

Ok now that’s baller

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cool kids don’t need to driver. They Uber everywhere.

-parent of a cool kid.

Are they cool and uber as they have lazy rich parents who don't teach them to drive.

Yes, we’re well off. They don’t NEED to learn to drive, unless they simply want to. But driving yourselves vs having a driver is one of the things that separate the commoners from the upper tier.

Uber isn’t exactly upper crust. LOL

Anonymous wrote:Jesus, back in my day just having your own car was enough to make you cool. Most of us drove the family minivan/station wagon when our parents let us.

BMWs for high school kids? DC has gotten too rich for its own good. These kids are gong to have some serious entitlement issues.

Kids had BMWs back in my days in the ‘90s. This isn’t new!

Jesus, back in my day just having your own car was enough to make you cool. Most of us drove the family minivan/station wagon when our parents let us.

BMWs for high school kids? DC has gotten too rich for its own good. These kids are gong to have some serious entitlement issues.

My kids have Defenders. One brand new and one is a classic. Their friends love them.

This is slightly off topic, but there are like 8 young college-aged girls who rent near us who have old trucks, mostly 4Runners.