Your teenage daughter/son is asking you to buy her/him a car

Your teenage daughter/son is asking you to buy her/him a car.

You as a responsible dad, what would you buy them?

Civic for 3k

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Depends on what they want.

I'd probably give them a budget of 5k or $150/mo if they want to buy new, but they have to come up with the down payment.

Time to grow up.

Camry for 3k. Don't give your son a civic, he'll turn into a ricer pothead with no money and a shitty mustache who hangs out with his equally pathetic 'gearhead' friends in the Wal-Mart parking lot showing off their plasti-dip work. He'll keep this up until age 28.

I wanna be a nice and cool dad even though I won't be rich enough but I'd still buy them a Fiesta ST which costs under 20k used and still looks cool enough.

>implying he couldn't rice a camry
I've seen your description driving riced Buick park aves.

They can buy their own fucking car. They've gotten enough money gifts from their family over the years, and it's their fucking problem if they wasted it on bullshit instead of saving it up.

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This honestly. I'm OP and I currently drive a 95 Camry which my dad gave back in college and I'm glad I didn't turn into a ricer when most of my friends with a Civic or a Corolla are. I still love it for making me to places without a single fault. It's at 260k miles and still going strong.

Some kids are predisposed, can't do anything about that. But don't help them along.

Wow man, what age are you now?

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I'm 29 now! I'm on plans to get a 13 GS350 too. and that's from my own pocket.

Something around $2000 that is stick

EP3 Si
In the states they're neutered with the K20A3 so they only have 160hp, but it's a three door hatch so it's versatile and it's stick so she'll have to learn

If my kid's a regular fella, they'll be ashamed of this car. If they're like me, they'll be pretty happy.

Saturn SC2 or Camry depending on whether or not they want something "sporty" maybe a mini truck like a ranger or an S-10 if that's what they want.

honestly depends on the kid

if they're smart and mature beyond their years then I can see myself dotting on them and getting them something nice.

if they're average then they get an average safe car

prius

An older volvo so that when they end up totalling it, they won't die.

jesus christ I didn't know new prius was this ugly

literally who would look at this and think it looks good? is this a ruse?

cheap safe and reliable

If you want your child to become a fedora tipping retard.

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lol fucking nothing, go ride the bus you little shit just like I did

>like I still do
Fix'd

e30 for 5k
>fun enough to hoon
>slow enough that it'll never break the speed limit

that little fuck will learn how to drive stick in a light + rwd car, & they'll have to learn how to fix that shit because it'll inevitably break down

A bus ticket to the local staffing agency

Buy him a stock xj and build it to something like this. Slow as fuck, pretty safe, and gets mad pussy.

Yeah from your cousin

I'd probably give him or her my B2600 and offer to *help* get it running.

That SuperGT Prius is monstrous though.

>Huracan, 488, AMG-GT, 911, M6, R8, GT-R
All these GT3 cars were completely btfo this season by the Toyota86 and the Prius

>have kid
>probably divorced and hate wife
>kid is mostly theirs

yamaha R3

Your kids will never make it to adulthood.

This age supposed to be fun and carefree.
So let'em have fun. Buy some sexy what they want.

>5k shitbox grant
>must be manual
>brownie points for pop ups
The little shit will hopefully be too busy shifting to use the phone, assuming it's not all inside their skull by the point in time that I into fatherhood

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>Speaking from experience

Have you moved out of your single mom's basement yet?

Bmw 3/4 for him and some kind of crossover for her.

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>not helping your children get ahead by saving them on a car payment so they can do other things with money and time like a degree

poor people are fucking dumb

they can buy their own car

>buying a nice car so they can total it

Don't, unless you want them to turn vegan, hippy, gay, hipster, PETA for life, move to Oregon, and vote Democrat.

unibody trash

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

buy a real 4x4, cherokeefags are almost all spergs.

> let them out of basement so they can DIE ANY MINUTE

Nice

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So he can get the fuck out.

civic/mazda3/focus or maybe an accord for like 3k

Won´t get one by asking. Will get one as a gift after getting into a polytechnic or a university, just like I did.
Something good and cheap to live with, son/daughter will have a say in what kind of car it is(hatchback, roadster, truck, motorcycle with a sidecar, whatever).

I got a BMW 318i E21 ´81, when got into a polytechnic(yes I´m old and it was a long time ago).
pic. not mine, but just like it, down to the colour, the wheels, even lowering.

I buy them a box to stick money in so they can save up for their own fucking car. Buying a car for your kid should mean nothing more than a rolling chassis at most. They need to work for it.

nigger

They can crash as many cars as they want, but they're not going to waste my money on it.

How the fuck are they supposed to ever prepare for adulthood if you completely deprive them of responsibility? Do you seriously expect them to magically become responsible with money and decisions the minute they move out?

>raising a retard

>Living vicariously through your theoretical son
Just get your own m4 vert right now and enjoy it like someone who isn't a cuck

Like hell I'm giving a boy a Honda City
She's not getting the motocompo though

I truly believe, that there's better way to make them responsible, than buying a piece of old trash as a first car.

My dad did this, he was a dick the whole time until I proved myself. He thought I was constantly completely out of money because I always told people I was broke, but one day he was irritated with me and asked me how much I had even bothered to save for a car. I have had no greater satisfaction in my life than seeing the way he completely deflated when I told him I had five thousand dollars. Seeing him go from mad to 'I have made a huge mistake' in one second was so delicious.

But I don't want it anymore.

>implying that a loser like me will have kids

I'm a responsible dad? I tell them to get a job and save up and I'll go half with them on a reasonable starter car.

K10 Micra

Well my dad handed me down his old car when he decided to get a new one and I've kept that one running and am determined to keep it running so I'll probably give him his grandfathers car. Have fun driving a ford escort son. Just remember if you want something better you'll have to do what I did and get a job.

I honestly ruined my life by buying my own car lel

thanks dad

It was a win-win though, in the end you learned how to save up money, and that's exactly what his intention was even though it caused a situational embarrassment.

What happened?

I would raise him much like I was. Basically force him/her to save about 80% of all allowance/birthday/Christmas money in a bank account until they're old enough for a car. In 15-16 years they should have enough to buy a decent older car. This doubles as a lesson to show the money they thought was a lot since it was their life savings is nothing. If they want better things in life they better save money.

unless you live in Canada. buying a 4.6 is suicide

volvo 2(7)40 or a miata if they like cars or 3k civic (more likely to be mazda3 since Honda fell to the ecoturbo, cvt, direct injection meme) and tell them to never care about the prestige of a car.
If I got more than one kid they can buy a 1k cavalier for themselves.

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That's okay, neither did I.

spent all of my money on a shitbox
new driver has high insurance that leaves me with no money after I pay it
shitbox fucks up
cant go to work
lose job
cant fix car
cant pay insurance
cant get new job with no car because lolrural shithole
car sits and gets worse as I hope to get a new job

sure its my fault but damn a little guidance wouldve been great

at least I found out the wonders of alcohol and other substances thanks to this

Any 60s-70s VW. Probably a beetle or a ghia. Good cars to learn basic auto and when the time comes we rip the engine out and make it a sand rail

Either of these
>by the time I have teenage kids they'll be old shitboxes
>don't mind helping them pay for it
>they have to learn stick shift
>they have to fix and maintain it
>fun and sporty, but slow as balls

But if they want a self-driving Prius or whatever the fuck they can pay for it ans the insurance themselves

a land cruiser.
slow as fuck and safe as fuck, cant get into trouble.
also incredibly reliable which is an enormous bonus.
to top it off its fucking huge so everyone can see their retarded ass coming.

the best part is it will have a giant gas bill so that faggot will have to get a fucking job and stop mooching off me.

>having kids
I haven't been able to get a girlfriend in 5 years

>MY KID NEEDS A GIANT SUV TO BE SAFE

The newest Corolla I can realistically afford.

Give them however much money I can afford to give for a car according to my financial situation and let them decide on their own. I'll be glad to offer advice if they want it though.

>SUV
>safe as fuck

>I BELIEVE I CAN FLY

1k at the absolute best. I had to walk to work until I got my little tempo, he can to.

$1k will be worthless by the time you have teenage kids

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Regardless, regular cars don't roll over 4 times like that

Sounds like a challenge!

live stream it

Problem solved, if you're less than 3 feet tall.
>You children will come back in a box with their spine poking out of their assholes

An used Ford Mustang from 2000.

this. Give him something irredeemably uninteresting

Fucking this. My parents never bought me shit. I had to earn everything myself. I've had a job since I was 13.

let me tell you how jealous i am of your canther

smart car with a body kit

If they've shown themselves to be responsible as well, I'll buy them a half decent shitbox like my parents did and give them enough money to get back and forth to school and elsewhere a couple times a week. Anything more they have to get themselves.

A bicycle and instructions to earn the money.

Camry for 3K, and that's only if they do all the maintenance while I train them because I would never raise someone with learned helplessness.

If they want something different, they can pay for it and I'd train them to wrench that too.