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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.

You do you.

Popular kids do drive Wranglers but I’ve never met a popular adult who drives one.

Agree. I love the Defender but test drove a wrangler high altitude and never looked back. I’m on several new defender forums and it is literally complaint after complaint after all of the problems. It’s quite entertaining.

To OP - popular kids drive wranglers.

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

Legitimately had to Google this to know what kind of car this even was, which I suppose means my kids have no shot at being popular when they're of driving age.

No. It just mean you aren’t a car person. Enjoy your RAV4. Probably a sensible choice too. Good on you.

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

Legitimately had to Google this to know what kind of car this even was, which I suppose means my kids have no shot at being popular when they're of driving age.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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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.

You do you.

Anonymous wrote:I know parents who just bought their DD a new Volvo SUV. They told me they wanted her to have a safe car so I guess in their minds it means a luxury SUV. Truth is they want their daughter to be cool and so a Honda, Toyota etc SUV would never be a consideration.

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

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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.

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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.