[s-cars] items wanted

[calvinlc at earthlink.net]

>He's a teenager and he has ADD. The latter drives his likelihood
>of accidents up by a factor of 200-300%, and a sporty car with a
>manual would only accentuate this...

Interesting.  My teenage nephew who lives with us, well he's 20 now, has had
nothing but turbocharged Audis since he got his license...he started out
with a chipped '89 200 TQA and has had a '91 200 TQA for the last couple of
years.  He has ADD as well and has not had any accidents thus far, and just
one ticket.  When I first tried to teach him the stick it was horrendously
painful, but after a month or so he started to get the hang of it and now
hates it whenever he has to drive anything else.

I think how much HP you allow the kid to have totally depends on his/her
personality.  He has hardly any interest at all in going fast, as opposed to
me in HS who was doing mods every week to my car to get an extra 0.1 second
at the drag strip, and on the street for that matter.

BTW, for those of us with ADD kids at home, here's one I heard a little
while ago:

Q: How many ADD kids does it take to change a light bulb?


A:  Wanna go ride bikes? :)

BTW, Lee, would a cover from an '89 200 work?  If so, I think I still have
that laying around in the basement.  Let me know because you are welcome to
it if it does the job.


--Calvin



-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Lee Levitt
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:53 AM
To: Taka Mizutani
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com; Qlist
Subject: Re: [s-cars] items wanted



Taka,

I'm generally in agreement with you regarding the manual
transmission. If he was interested in sedans, we would have gone
that route. However, he really wanted a wagon, both for the
utility and the slightly better rearward visibility.

And I wanted a slow, safe, relatively large car for him. I don't
have much fact behind this, but my gut tells me that the C4 A6 may
handle accidents better than later model VWs...

He's a teenager and he has ADD. The latter drives his likelihood
of accidents up by a factor of 200-300%, and a sporty car with a
manual would only accentuate this...

If a Volvo 240 were available with AWD... :)

Lee

On Mon Jan 08 06:36:34 PST 2007, Taka Mizutani
<t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a little disappointed- I would have hoped that you would
> teach your
> son to drive manual transmission and have him get a manual
> transmission
> car!
>
> I feel that this is a useful skill that a lot of people are
> lacking these
> days.
>
> I would have gotten an A4 chassis Golf/Jetta 2.slow if you're
> sticking w/
> VAG- safe car, relatively easy to work on and fairly simple,
> compatible with
> VAG-COM that I'm sure you already have and also relatively new.
> With a
> manual
> transmission, they're not totally bad, they have great brakes and
> available
> ESP on the later cars. Not reliable but a lot simpler than an
> S-car. :-)
>
> Taka
>