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Pearl Clutcher
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Jul 30, 2017 3:38:57 GMT
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Post by muggins on Aug 23, 2019 1:52:59 GMT
Thank you for the replies. We go to a private school in the next town over so have no bus service. Both mine and DH cars are too new and expensive to hand down to a 16 year old. Air conditioning is a must since we live in Arizona. I would like to get a smaller SUV or crossover. Something that’s safe and gets good gas mileage. As I said above, my son drove my Honda CRV, it was a great smaller SUV. I now have a Nissan Juke, which is a crossover. I would have replaced the CRV with another CRV but they've gotten wider over the years and my old one barely fit into my narrow parking space as it was, and love it as much as the CRV...so my vote goes to one of those. I know several people with RAV4's which are similar to the CRV, and they love those too. I loved my Honda CRV - I had to sell it last month before we moved back to the US. It’s been taken to Bulgaria by its new owner. They’re great cars and they are known to go forever. IMHO a great choice for a teen.
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Post by vpohlman on Aug 23, 2019 1:58:56 GMT
Our son got our 1992 Mercury Tracer, manual, no air. He drove it til it died, then he bought a 1986 Chevy pickup, so very orange, with a sticker on the tailgate that said “Daisy”! Ha! He drove that for a couple of years to college about an hour away. We paid for college, so the vehicle was his responsibility. We covered insurance though,
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seaexplore
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Apr 25, 2015 23:57:30 GMT
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Post by seaexplore on Aug 23, 2019 1:59:09 GMT
My kids will get whatever car they purchase and pay for gas, insurance, maintenance themselves on.
I am not buying or giving them a car. They may borrow mine VERY infrequently, we’re talking MAYBE once a week. Certainly will not have one that is “theirs” if I’ve purchased it. They want a car, they can buy it.
They will have a curfew as long as they live in my house. Don’t like it? Find a different place to live.
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Post by grate on Aug 23, 2019 2:14:48 GMT
Grandma's leftover.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 23, 2019 2:31:12 GMT
They didn’t ‘get’ anything. They used my car when it was free. They can ‘get’ a car when they buy one themselves
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PLurker
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Location: Behind the Cheddar Curtain
Jun 28, 2014 3:48:49 GMT
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Post by PLurker on Aug 23, 2019 3:27:27 GMT
DD and I "went halfsies" on their first car in 2013. We bought a 2002 Toyota Echo that was in good shape and reasonable, about $4K. DD is still driving it with no plans to change. Gets up to 34 city/ 41 highway and gets you where you're going.
DS got a 2003 Pontiac Vibe (Toyota engine) for around the same price point and same deal in 2016. It too, knock on wood, has a rep for lasting long time. It also has AWD which comes in handy in the winter especially with a 1/2 mile long driveway. It is his college commuter car.
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Post by smokeynspike on Aug 23, 2019 6:51:44 GMT
My daughter just passed her driver's test this morning. She will be using our 2014 Kia Rio hatchback that has 22k miles on it. It will be a great car for her for a long time if she treats it nice. We bought it new with the intention of giving it to her when she turned 16. We told her that we would provide one car for her. The next one will be on her.
Melissa
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Post by jenjie on Aug 23, 2019 11:45:17 GMT
I got Dd a Nissan Altima and just last week somebody told her again what a good choice it was bc Nissans apparently live forever.
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Post by yivit on Aug 23, 2019 13:07:23 GMT
When DD got her license, I bought myself another truck (f150) and she drove the 1996 Ranger that I had been driving (this was in 2007). It was a great fit - forced to not ferry people around even after she could (graduated driving restrictions here), faceplate on radio was removable so she didn't have tunes or fiddling with knobs to distract her until I thought she was more accomplished, and it wasn't so low that she was invisible not so big that she couldn't maneuver. When she graduated, I bought a used Saturn for her to drive and her brother started with the Ranger. He drove that until I got my convertible 5 years ago and handed the f150 to him to drive.
The small truck was great, especially since they were both in marching band and DS played sousaphone.
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Post by workingclassdog on Aug 23, 2019 13:35:34 GMT
Honda Civic.. older.. 1998, worth about $3,000 at the time. No need for an expensive vehicle.. ($15,000 for us is what I drive and LOVE).. Oh yeah and the car was bought by us because we drove it for awhile until we upgraded.. but they paid for maintenance/oil/gas.
And no SUV/trucks were not a worry. Because we can't worry about every little thing out there.. we can't wrap our kids in bubble wrap... They are now 23 and 24 and still alive and both drive 'smaller' cars..
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Post by leannec on Aug 23, 2019 14:06:21 GMT
We've bought a used Toyota Corolla for dd#1 to drive ... I can't remember the year but it's in excellent shape ... she got it when she was 17 and she is 20 now ... technically she should be sharing it with her 16 year old sister but dd#2 doesn't have her license yet
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Post by needmysanity on Aug 23, 2019 16:01:21 GMT
Our first son got our old Chevy Truck - really hard to park and horrible on gas. It did keep him from being an idiot in it so that was a plus.
Our youngest got our old Honda Accord. It had over 200,000 miles on it! He loved that car and we did too. He is now 19 1/2 and totaled it last week. Even with 225,000 miles we got $5,000 from the insurance company. Honda's are great cars. I wish he would have bought another one but he picked a Ford Fusion instead.
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