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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - CT280 - 02-13-2009

Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Its not my kid. Its a friend of mine that was asking.

pic of the chick? still looking?

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - PinesChic - 02-13-2009

Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Anybody know anything about the 2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata Convertible. MSRP $22,750. 22mpg city, 28 hwy, 2 door

that an other popular one here in Florida, but I dont know much about them.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 02-13-2009

oldielox Wrote:

Mitsubishi Eclipse

That one's interesting.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - Banana - 02-13-2009

Am I turning into my parents? I would never hand over a brand new sports car to my 18 year old daughter. My parent's had money - it wasn't that. It was that 18 year olds don't deserve to be handed brand new sports cars. There a lot to be said for earning what you get.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 02-13-2009

Cucumber Wrote:Am I turning into my parents? I would never hand over a brand new sports car to my 18 year old daughter. My parent's had money - it wasn't that. It was that 18 year olds don't deserve to be handed brand new sports cars. There a lot to be said for earning what you get.

Yeah, I get that. But for this friend of mine, its sort of a graduation gift and a "get your mind right for college" gift. And she has been working since she was able to get out and work. Its not that she doesn't understand the value of money.

Side note, she had a used trans am. Last summer she was T-boned going through an intersection by some guy in a van that didn't yield and turned left into her. She had to be cut out of the car and the car was totalled. She was okay, just a lot of cuts and bruises. But the insurance settlement was pretty decent. Since then she has been driving a very old jeep cherokee. She will be going off to college about 3 to 4 hours drive from home. They want her to have some kind of dependable car and not one that might break down on her that far away.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - Banana - 02-13-2009

Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Yeah, I get that. But for this friend of mine, its sort of a graduation gift and a "get your mind right for college" gift. And she has been working since she was able to get out and work. Its not that she doesn't understand the value of money.

Side note, she had a used trans am. Last summer she was T-boned going through an intersection by some guy in a van that didn't yield and turned left into her. She had to be cut out of the car and the car was totalled. She was okay, just a lot of cuts and bruises. But the insurance settlement was pretty decent. Since then she has been driving a very old jeep cherokee. She will be going off to college about 3 to 4 hours drive from home. They want her to have some kind of dependable car and not one that might break down on her that far away.

Well, that part makes sense. I guess I see too many shit head teenagers that take things their parent's do for them for granted. It seems to be the new generation thing. Like my generation didn't know what they wanted to do with their lives, but this generation doesn't seem to want to do anything with their lives.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 02-13-2009

Cucumber Wrote:Well, that part makes sense. I guess I see too many shit head teenagers that take things their parent's do for them for granted. It seems to be the new generation thing. Like my generation didn't know what they wanted to do with their lives, but this generation doesn't seem to want to do anything with their lives.

No, I get that. Trust me. Odds are she will go off to college and not like it and come back and go to a junior college and waitress or something because she doesn't want to live off of the "allowance" mom/dad give her to be a full time student.

Its definitely a tough choice, deciding between how much to make them do for themselves, and what you do to make it so that they can advance their education. It would be tough to go to a big college and try to graduate in 4 years and also hold down a job that paid enough to pay the bills.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - BIRD33 - 02-13-2009

I wasnt given a brand new car when I was a teen and I think we can all agree I turned out terrible.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 02-13-2009

BIRD33 Wrote:I wasnt given a brand new car when I was a teen and I think we can all agree I turned out terrible.

This is the kind of input I was hoping for. Now what's wrong with the Miata's?

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - BIRD33 - 02-13-2009

My pops had one when he had a midlife crisis or something.More of a spare convertible to go in his stable of cars.I ended up driving it more than he did.Shit just kept going wrong with it.Stuff was loose in the interior and eventually the engine went.Just wasnt that solid and if you're worried about a kid getting in an accident its the last car I'd want to be in.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - Moto - 02-13-2009

Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Are they really? Break down a lot or what?

Actually they are recommended by Consumer Reports, scored 89 out of a 100. A lot of the punks around here are driving Scions.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 02-13-2009

BIRD33 Wrote:My pops had one when he had a midlife crisis or something.More of a spare convertible to go in his stable of cars.I ended up driving it more than he did.Shit just kept going wrong with it.Stuff was loose in the interior and eventually the engine went.Just wasnt that solid and if you're worried about a kid getting in an accident its the last car I'd want to be in.

Yeah, I was looking at some pictures. They are ranked by US News as #2 best affordable sports car behind the Nissan 360Z (or whatever the number is now). But they look really tiny. No backseat at all. And they did not have a safety rating on them.

The Mazda RX was #4, I think. It looks like it has a lot more room,but more expensive and poor gas mileage. Looks cooler though.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - BIRD33 - 02-13-2009

It was small as hell.You could barely fit golf clubs in the trunk.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - BIRD33 - 02-13-2009

Also its impossible to have sex in a miata.Its like screwing on top of a matchbox car.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 02-13-2009

BIRD33 Wrote:Also its impossible to have sex in a miata.Its like screwing on top of a matchbox car.

This might be a plus when her dad decides what to get.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - cLaY - 02-13-2009

Serious reply...buy a VW. Excellent safety ratings, good gas mileage, run forever, and good re-sale value.

Here's a couple of suggestions:



VW Eos



VW Jetta




Mazda's, Mitsbishi, and Chrylser are all shit. Anything that dumb cunt posted is shit. German and GM is where it's at. I'm also a big fan of Toyota, Nissan, and Honda, but they don't make anything fun like the German's do.

Your welcome.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - leeman - 02-13-2009

Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Anybody know anything about the 2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata Convertible. MSRP $22,750. 22mpg city, 28 hwy, 2 door

She's gay?

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 02-13-2009

cLaY Wrote:Serious reply...buy a VW. Excellent safety ratings, good gas mileage, run forever, and good re-sale value.

Here's a couple of suggestions:



VW Eos



VW Jetta




Mazda's, Mitsbishi, and Chrylser are all shit. Anything that dumb cunt posted is shit. German and GM is where it's at. I'm also a big fan of Toyota, Nissan, and Honda, but they don't make anything fun like the German's do.

Your welcome.

Well that EOS looks sort of funky and its pretty high price. Over $30k.

The Jetta is interesting. Really cheap and scores well on reviews. High safety rating. I'm just not sure that an 18 year old girl that likes fast cars is going to want something she thinks looks like a mom car.

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Need car suggestions for an 18 year old girl - snarg - 02-14-2009

tell her clayrock from kansas recommends it
how could she resist??

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