Did your parents get you a car in high school?

>Mfw license at 16
>Mfw student dedicated parking lot
>Mfw dedicated automotive shop
>Mfw grad w/ level 1 auto technician
Life must suck for you m8

What a cuck nation I bet you don't even have weight lifting class

A 1979 Datsun B210. My parents got it for my brother and I. I drove it a little, but it was sold before I got my license because we moved.

My parents bought me a 924 in high school

>it had a blown head gasket, which I had to fix
>it was an automatic

>ended up like image related

>Europe
>what a cuck nation
a m e r i c a n e d u c a t i on

No, and my mother (single mom, dad didn't pay shit) borrowed my car when hers had a problem. She did call my call my dad to look at my car after my first ticket. Car was then taken away and sold and I had to buy a shit box. Car was a 71 chevelle 396, which was replaced by a ford shitscort.

>Tfw bonglander
>tfw license at 17

I had a Hyundai Accent my dad bought for me. Still have it, although I've had 4 other cars since.

Got this myself from my girlfriend's grandmother, a 95 Mazda B2300. Runs great, I've done alot of work to it myself, looked like this when I first got it

i bought it myself, it was a 2001 Mercury Cougar

That's pretty standard for upper middle class families - they just hand their old car down to their kid. It does make sense, they know what condition the used car is in, generally your parents don't drive hoonable cars, they know the insurance on it will be sensible, etc. And if little Johnny Hoon wants a racy fun car, well, he can work for it himself. Most kids aren't that - dedicated - and just spend enough to rice it up without changing the performance one way or the other.

your parents go you an em1 and they took it away from you. you fucking retard.

Never had the privilege of driving to school like a baller lol. Freshman and sophomore years were pure bus riding. Final two years I was lucky enough to catch rides with friends on most days. Always knew it'd be a bad day when friend called and said they couldn't pick me up.
>high school senior
>walking to the bus stop again like a pleb

Never actually had my own car to drive until my sister went off to college and I was handed down a 1994 Civic sedan.

>highschool in Europe
>not even earning money yet
People over there don't get jobs in high school? That's very common in America.

What for?

I wouldn't say so just because a 2000 Corolla probably wasn't worth shit anyways. Doubt she woulda got much for it on the used market.

Many of my high school friends, on the other hand, were bought brand new cars. Now THAT is spoiled.

My parents never bought me a car, but they've offered me a bunch of hand-me-downs. I got my dad's 1995 Corolla when I turned 16, great car even with 250,000 miles. Then my sister bought herself her first car and I got her 2006 Corolla which I'm still using. Now my sister wants to get another car so she's trying to convince me to trade my Corolla for her Prius C so she can trade in the Corolla.

Also my dad always complains that his NB Miata is uncomfortable for his bad back, so he's been offering to give it to me. It's a great car, but I don't want to do that to him because he loves that car.

To make money and gain work experience... Do people just lack ambition over there?

So that highschoolers can get a little spending money and learn some responsibility and have something useful to do in the summer.

Also helps fill all the dumb minimum wage jobs like waiting tables and bragging groceries.

>What for

Most American high schoolers have jobs??

I was a waiter at a pizzaria and in college I as an EMT and a cashier

Our summer holidays are only six weeks, we have more holidays throughout the year in return. Also we bag our own groceries.

lifes a bitch

So pick up some shifts on the weekends. It's not like you can only work in the summer. I even knew people who took shifts after they got home on school days.

Since my parents didn't get my two older siblings cars is high school, and I understood that money was tight, i didn't even bother asking. However, unlike my siblings, I had a job through HS. So I saved up some money and come senior year i brought the idea of buying my own car up to my parents and they fucking laughed in my face. Thinking back on it they probably didn't trust the whole used car thing, but I was pretty pissed, especially since I planned on paying for everything (including insurance) myself. I remember people genuinely being surprised when I told them i didn't have a car in high school, it was pretty unusual for people's parents not to buy them a car on their 16th birthday where i'm from. Everyone was so fucking spoiled it was ridiculous, but i was always envious just because chilling out in the parking lot before school looked fun.

Euros are lazy.

and socialists so they probably get their rent subsidized by the gov. why get a job?

yup. Plymouth neon. somehow in half decent shape.

first thing I did was remove all remnants of "Plymouth" and told every one it was a dodge if they asked. Total shit car, ran decent, looked awful. Beat the shit out of that car and I'm not proud of it.

Sold it on Craigslist, buyer texted me 3 weeks later saying it needed $2000 in work as things slowly started to fall apart and it started to overheat. dodged a major bullet. Would not recommend as a first car.

Classic highschool: bought a swapped civic next

1999 328i.

4 grand.

not bad. still driving it. falling apart inside and out though, and the engine doesn't like to idle for longer than 2ish minutes, it'll just turn itself off.

1999 Ranger 3.0 4x4 stepside

I kept it up until a few years ago.

In the end, trans slipped going into 2nd and 4x4 would engage on the dash, but transfer case wouldn't engage.

Sold it in the 16X,XXX range for $2k.

Technically yes?

I didn't get my license until after high school, but my grandfather bought me a car for when I was able to drive.

A 1992 Chevy Lumnia EURO 3.4L V6. Thing was alright for a first car. Things decided to go on it quick tho. Power steering rack went, then starter + alternator went, and the nail in the coffin was when the frame decided to rust out completely.

Who the fuck has their own rent to pay as a school kid?

Nope. Never started driving until after I graduated and that was driving one of my parents' cars.

It was just a general comment on Europe's economy.

My dad bought me a 1989 chevy cavalier coupe for $400. It ran good, and I already had a job. I dropped another $600 into it and we worked on it together every weekend. It was a great little car. We kept it running to 250k miles and sold it for $800. New owners got it to 300k before it finally died. Assassinated by dirty conspiring tree and patch of ice.

Was also the first kid in my year to get a car, so that was pretty awesome too. I genuinely miss the old girl.

Pic related, but not mine.

Yeh, but then my mum wrecked it. I wouldn't have a car again for two years.

My dad got a car allowance with his new job at the time and gave me his old car which he had paid off. This wasn't until I graduated, though.

Yes, was a BMW 335i a few weeks before I got my actual license

Modified 1972 Mk1 Escort.

They were cheap back then and I spent every penny I had on the engine and other modifications. I also didn't have my license yet so I mostly used it at night.

My uncle did. He owned a small repair shop and accepted a '90 civic sedan 5mt with blown engine from a customer. I worked for him pumping gas for an entire summer to pay for the new D15 we put into it. 10/10 first car experience

yeah
2006 TT 3.2 quattro back in 2007
lasted me through college and sold it back in 2012

No. I had to drive my moms Ford Escort station wagon

Bought my own vehicle at 15. 1987 dodge ram D250

'94 sable when I was 15, only had 59k miles when I got it and was 1k

pic related is the day I got it

and like a year or two after I got it lmao

My stepdad gave me a Civic Si for my 16th birthday. I drive a boosted BRZ now and he's trying to give me his STi, but that low rpm deadzone with a shit ton of turbolag scares me off. My BRZ with the Edelbrock kit is probably faster anyway

No it wasn't until 3 years after graduating HS my brother's friend got his degree and was going to leave the country to work in some shithole and was going to junk his car. Brother talked him into letting me have it.

During those three years my mom would tell me to do stuff she wanted me to do because she was "saving up to get me a car" which was total bullshit desu

at least the car was dope (88 acura legend) and the only thing I ever had to fix was the brake master cylinder, everything else was routine maintentance (pads and oil)

Yeah.

2007 Accord
1999 Miata
2016 Forester

They also paid for a new engine when I blew the one in the Miata. They're fucking great.

Not a bad deal desu

But it's still shitty

No and no.

I learned late, and when I did, my mother let me borrow her old Fiesta while I saved for my own car.

what do you think of it? Is it a good car?

> Super low standard of driving
> Shitty cars
> 99% automatics
> Overpriced used car market because they keep dying due to neglect
> Any used car you can buy has had a woman driver neglect it for years
> No jobs after university, but still 100k+ loans to pay off

Must suck to be american.

>"the miata engine is great!"
>"I only had to replace it once"
wew lad

Yes they bought me a red 1996 subaru impreza hx20s in manual, i got it as a christmas/birthday present, i was fuckin stoked, cant wait for my son and daughter can be old enough to drive ima buy them both cars but make em work for it

I think he meant is parents were great.

Wrong.

It's not hard to find sticks, parents cover my student debt because am a richfag, and the parts are cheap

My mom bought me a used car of my choice that was around 2k summer after graduation. After some arguing I got a manual car

>people who think parent buying a car makes you spoiled

Me and my dad wanted to learn to wrench and i needed a car so in highschool my dad bought a 68 mercury cougar and we worked on it together and i drove it all senior year. I still miss that thing

If I ever have kids their car will work like this.

Their real first car until they have been driving long enough to prove they won't fuck up will be a hand me down.

The second one I will buy them whatever they want, within reason of course. Probably will put a cap of like 25k equivalent at that time inflation and such.

I live in the US and I am not going to pretend you can live in this country without a car or that it is possible for anyone to buy a car at age 16-20 that is reasonable in age.

This is exactly what my parents did for me I will do the same for my kids.

I wouldn't consider myself spoiled, I would say my parents recognized the world we live in and both have good jobs.

You aren't spoiled for getting a used car from your parents. You're spoiled if you get something brand new.

Student jobs (at least in Hungary) are fucking abysmal, you get paid a little over a dollar an hour and in some cases less, unless you can find an under the table place that doesnt pay peanuts just because you're still in college/high school

I got one of these in 1992

i liked it alot
go for it if you can find one without a million miles

Parent's didn't get me shit, they abandoned me for my 17th birthday.

So what's the alternative? Do nothing and have zero income? Nice work ethic.

My Dad made a deal with me. IF and only if I waited until 18 to get my driver's license, he would pay for half of my first car up to a maximum of 10k on his end. He felt this would allow me more time to mature and I would be a more conservative driver. I worked my ass off to max that deal out and got an 07 WRX in 08. Sold it five years later and picked up a bucket '88 Honda. It was cool to have it at the time, but I wouldn't buy new again.

This. Parents buying their kid a cheap shitbox to get around doesn't bother me. It's when they just get handed a brand new car, not ever knowing what it's like to have to work miserable jobs and save for the nice things they want.

In high school I had classes from 8am to 4pm, I barely had any time to do my homework, study and eat. Now in the Uni it is exactly the same.
No chance to work in these conditions.

This. My parents gave me their old Avalon.

I love the thing a lot as a DD. Even though it's 15 years old it doesn't even have 100k miles and I'm about to pull the trigger on an old Mk 3 Supra to "hoon" and repair when it breaks.

How do you plan to get hired without work experience? I guarantee you there's no shortage of students at your schools who are working while taking classes. It's a competitive world, user.

Parents are buying me a car for when I graduate.

Since I'm physically unable to work, and I'm stuck in bed popping fentanyl all day, there's not much I can do but clean, occasionally cook, and finish online schooling.

We're probably going to get a pickup truck since they seem like the only vehicles I can comfortably be in for long periods of time.

>physically unable to work
>finishing online schooling
What do you plan to do after school if you can't work?

>getting a car in highschool
How many did you repeat to stay in highschool until you could drive?

Moron.

1985 Jaguar XJ6

>parents
grandfather gave me his truck after he stopped driving it
2003 sierra

>Did your parents get you a car in high school?
no. too poor and mexican

>What did they get you?

nothing

Most people graduate HS at 18 user

Good point. I'll ponder on it.

Well I have surgeries planned to help possibly make me a functional human being again. I'm also going to physical therapy every day, which is helping slightly.

I originally planned to go into the Coast Guard, now that's out of the way I plan on doing Mechanical Engineering.

Is that an american thing?

I bought a 1977 Corolla for my first car for $500 during school after initially using my moms car for pizza deliveries. Afterwards i went to a better paying pizza bar i saved autistically until i could afford a 1979 Valiant. No longer in school but they were good cars, and contrary to boomer myth, no one gives a shit you drive a car in school. I learned buying something like this is all for you

Planning on buying a newer Falcon, so i dont have to wear out my Valiant

Yes

That's silly.

1990 4x2 22R hilux extended tray.
It leaked every fluid under the sun but never once broke down.

Also carbed so key bangers errywhere

1996 Mazda B3000 from my uncle

My gramps got me a 93 mercury cougar automatic, teal with pink pin stripes. I caught so much shit for those pin stripes. I remember him asking the guy who sold it "Is it FWD, it needs to be FWD for winer?" And the guy was like "Sure thing buddy, it sure is!"

It was slow, unreliable, horible gas mileage, and looked like shit but the wicked 140 horsepower RWD dounts I did in that thing was awesome.

my parents bought me a 1400$ v6 Dodge Dakota. that thing tried to kill me so many damn times, it was a real dog. Wish I still had it. It's probably a tin can rn

Hell no

I'm a beaner, so I started landscaping with my Uncle when I was 16. Bought a piece of shit manual '97 camaro that wouldn't even shift into first.

>Don't want to slave for peanuts

In comes #1 goy suggesting you do it

You have to realize that sometimes its not worth it and or impossible to get a job without a car

parents bought be an '02 volvo s60 cause they wanted me in a safe car. it was like $1000 and had a bunch of shit wrong with it but i fixed it all. 3 years later my brother got his license, he liked the car so i gave it to him and bought an '06 s60r. parents were proud as fuck.