[s-cars] Teen car

[mtgadbois at aol.com]

 BTDT, so I'll chime in on this thread.  Had this decision 2 or 3 years ago.  What I went with was a 2001 Audi A4 with 2.8 and auto tranny.  It has the benefits of 4WD and 6 airbags as well as nice relatively slow acceleration (as compared to my 95.5 S6 RS2).  So far no real accidents, just self-inflicted parking damage.  In a downpour the kid hit a large rock on the side of the road, cornholed the oil pan and kept driving for 10 more miles.  I changed the pan, added more Mobil 1, listened to the lifters tick for 10 minutes until they quieted down.  That was 16,000 miles ago.

Mark near Chicago


Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:57:02 -0500
From: Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Teen car
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I'll second that one- the FWD 850 non-turbo or the S70 is a pretty solid car
that is too slow to get yourself in trouble but very safe.

I would actually advocate getting a teen a manual transmission car- it's
much harder to talk on your cellphone or do other stupid things if you have
to worry about shifting gears as well.

Taka


On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:56 PM, erikaddy at yahoo.com <erikaddy at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Don't have this problem (yet), but if my daughter needed a cheep car, I
> would be looking for a naturally aspirated Volvo 850/70 series.
>
> Erik Addy
> Sent from a mobile device.