WTB: Car for 16 yo

**miata_racer** · 09-13-2009, 09:59 PM

I would probably be interested in selling my 02 Protege. 97k miles. Synthetic fluids since about 20k (redline, mobil1) and has been maintained pretty well. I have all the parts and factory service manuals to do the upcoming timing belt and water pump @ 105k miles.

Still gets about 28-30mpg. 4 speed auto. It's peppy but not fast. And I wear a 13 shoe. And Karter Bollmann (6'3) used to own one.

Interested? :)

**jrj512** · 09-14-2009, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by ken o

My new 335i will be an auto.

How's that vagina working out for ya?

**ken o** · 09-14-2009, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by jrj512

How's that vagina working out for ya?

Not here yet. Still on the other side of the pond. But I am sure it will be nice and comfy.

**Radio-Active** · 09-14-2009, 08:37 AM

On second thought, get him a Mini Cooper S.

**onething** · 09-14-2009, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by ken o

He really doesn't have a strong opinion.

After you sold the GT3 out from under him, he probably doesn't.

The story I heard was the poor kid took a friend out to the garage to see the car he was going to get when he got his license and the Porsche was gone and a Mini was there instead

I'd never drive anything after something so traumatic as that!

**bnordin** · 09-15-2009, 06:25 AM

Originally Posted by POS Racing

A 1976 Chrysler Cordoba with Corinthian Leather.

My parents bought one new. Still sits behind my brothers shop.

**bnordin** · 09-15-2009, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by HudsonHawk

I gotta Jeep CJ-5 for sale. He can't drive it fast and if he does roll it, you just roll it back over on its wheels and drive off.

My last 16 year old drove the NA and a Jeep. He learned to Auto-X and Off-Road.

**ken o** · 09-15-2009, 07:21 AM

Thinking more about a new Kia with the warranty. Are Kias cool cars for high school kids?

**CosmosMpower** · 09-15-2009, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by ken o

Thinking more about a new Kia with the warranty. Are Kias cool cars for high school kids?

Maybe a High school in S. Korea

**POS Racing** · 09-15-2009, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by ken o

Thinking more about a new Kia with the warranty. Are Kias cool cars for high school kids?

Maybe is he in Chess Club or Band??

**jrj512** · 09-15-2009, 07:49 AM

Between the Kia and the size 13 shoe, the chicks will be all over him.

**Radio-Active** · 09-15-2009, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by POS Racing

Maybe is he in Chess Club or Band??

Actually, the Allen band is the largest high school marching band in the state. With something like 670 band members, it has a greater number of students taking band as an elective than any other elective course.

**POS Racing** · 09-15-2009, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by Radio-Active

Actually, the Allen band is the largest high school marching band in the state. With something like 670 band members, it has a greater number of students taking band as an elective than any other elective course.

Let me take a guess you played the Tuba??

**Radio-Active** · 09-15-2009, 08:14 AM

When I was in Allen High School, it didn't matter too much as long as it was'nt the bus.

Most of the students had mom and dad's old hand me down car. Some were BMW's and Jag's, but most were more reasonable.
That was back in 1988.

**Radio-Active** · 09-15-2009, 08:17 AM

Originally Posted by POS Racing

Let me take a guess you played the Tuba??

Tenor Sax, actually, and only for one year. The band director and I had it out and he ended up taking out on my younger brother 3 years later.

**ken o** · 09-15-2009, 08:20 AM

My neighbor gave his 16yo his old 528i.
So Kia = bad, M3 = bad?

**sammm** · 09-15-2009, 08:28 AM

Ask the kid if he wants a new Kia or a new pair of Nike's. Try to show some testicular fortitude.

**POS Racing** · 09-15-2009, 08:35 AM

Why would you buy a kid a new anything as the first car??

Buy some cheap POS® and see if he can keep it alive and not rip the fenders off of it for a while then get him something nicer.

**CobaltFire** · 09-15-2009, 08:49 AM

E34 525I 5-Speed

Even better, make it a Touring!

**altiain** · 09-15-2009, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by POS Racing

Why would you buy a kid a new anything as the first car??

Buy some cheap POS® and see if he can keep it alive and not rip the fenders off of it for a while then get him something nicer.

+1. Buy something new enough that it won't eat you up with repairs costs, but old and cheap enough that you won't care if/when he bangs it up.

If you want to reward him, buy him a new car for graduation, assuming his grades are good and he proves between now and then that he can take care of a car.

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