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Originally Posted by Tcoat
This statement has always bothered me a bit. I know as a teen I could get in trouble with a beat to hell old four door sedan just as easily as with a sports car. In some ways the sports cars were actually safer as they were at least basically designed to do the shit I put cars through!
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but it does have a point. if i had a rwd camaro in high school, the cops would have definitely increased laws about doing donuts in the middle of intersections, and i would definitely have been on a first name basis with highway patrol. at 15, i got my mom's suburban stuck in a snow drift doing donuts when i wasn't supposed to. at 18, i learned 1996 ford rangers trigger the check engine light when they hit 100mph... i had a bad history with rwd by the time i was 19...
i mostly refrained from doing this with the car i finally bought, as 1, it was fwd and boring, 2, the best way to do a donut was in reverse, which looked stupid and funny, and 3, the best way to control the donut was to lock the e-brake, which made the dash light up like a christmas tree, but made perfect circles.
best car for a high schooler is a chrysler. they're cheap, and reliable...ish... getting a toyota for a first car is a bad idea, it sets one up to think that all cars are reliable. best first car is a sh
itbox that you can leave the keys in and no one would steal, that has a pandora's-box reliability. it teaches, maintenance, adult choices(ramen this week, or that new starter?), and falling equity...