Please don't give your teen a performance car

[hornetball]

Worked a paper route. Bought a '74 F-250 with a 360 FE for $300. Had floorboard AC. LOL. I could only afford gas sporadically though.

[Jim m]

...and you'd save yourself so many spins on the track!

But seriously... that's what PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION is for. I'm sorry, but every day I see some a$$hole weaving down LBJ that seriously can't put the phone down for 10 effing minutes and get where they're going. I really do want to go all vigilante on these people and just run them off onto the shoulder as a friendly reminder that they need to pay attention on the road or else bad things will happen. Inattentive and timid driving generally causes tailgating, speeding and unchecked gorilla aggression in normal drivers.

I don't want to live in a world where I have to share the road with self-driving cars. Human factor or not, what happens when the Google car decides to reboot at 70 mph on Central? Who's at fault when that POS rear-ends me? Who do I yell at when it cuts me off in traffic?

Oh come on... "Normal" drivers somehow always manage to rein in the gorilla!!!

[MadMonkey]

My parents didn't give me a HiPo car, they didn't give me any car.
Told me to get a job, which I did, and bought my own damn car.
I was 15, bought my 1st car when I was 16.

I got lucky... my sister gave me my first car. A POS Mercedes 300SD Turbo (diesel). Very high performance... 0-60 in 22 seconds I sold it for $800.

[effse7en]

I managed 115 in my mom's Mitsubishi Outlander on the 30 bridge one time. That was about the speed the car started shaking and I stopped out of fear haha.

95ish in the Malibu, 90ish in the xD, and around 85 in the Miata (terrifying, if I'm honest).

[goofygrin]

Even those of us that bought our own cars can buy ones with too much powah

I learned to drive stick in the mountains in a Fiat Uno... but the first car I bought and paid for was a 1970 240z with a 3x2 weber setup... no heat, no ac, rusted out floorboards, pleather seats out of a fiesta with lap belts only and an idiot behind the wheel. I made it from Wichita to Duncan, OK in a little under 2 hours...

[CosmosMpower]

My first car was a 92 Acura Legend, not exactly a performance car but 200 hp. Totaled it on 635 in spectacular fashion. My kid will be getting something as slow or slower than a Miata.

[cone-cerned]

The only safety feature that really works.....this in the rear view mirror.

[Rogue]

That didn't work on me,…………….but the judge in front of me did.

[driftdevil]

I bought my own car that was a 76 280z. Still miss that car, but damn it was fun!

[mtrx804]

95 Nissan Maxima. Was a great starter car... til a big truck ran me off into a ditch.
Size doesn't really matter in Texas people will move into whatever lane they want. Just have to drive smart.

My son will be getting a truck or SUV. 14 years from now when he can drive lol.

[onething]

A carload of teenagers going anywhere at 4AM is already a problem IMHO. When did that ever turn into a good thing?

[eliandi]

I have twin boys. They are 14, but I've been telling then for years that there are 2 levels of DL requirements. There are the state requirements. Then there are Dad's requirements!

[effse7en]

I had a friend who wasn't allowed to have more than one other person in the car until he was 20 hahaha

[sube]

My dad did it right, no rules other than you pay for your own speeding tickets and resulting insurance increases. Then gave me a rusted out POS that none of my friends would ever want to be seen in. We lived far enough out that my friends never wanted to drive out to get me so I always just met them. It worked out pretty well.

[HudsonHawk]

My first car was a ford fairmont futura (Mustang Chassis with the 302 V8 ). It would not do 70.

Fastest I have been is 100 in my Wifes Solara Convertable V-6. Suprisingly smooth.
And 110 in my old 3500 Cummins Diesel.

In High School, a friend of mine rolled his parents Ford Tarus SHO on a country road. The moron was speeding and swerving to show off how well it handled to other kids. Luckily only minor injuries for all involved. I was not in the car.