[s-cars] Teen car

[Hap Maguire]

Brian et all

My two daughters who are now 35 and 39 years old both learned to drive on manual transmission cars. As an Instructor/Check pilot for UAL and the USAF I devised a syllabus of instruction to lead us through all phases of the driving experience. Their respective cars were a BMW 2002, when we still lived in California, for the older girl and 2 Audi 4000 CSs for the younger girl. The younger daughter took 2 4000s because she totaled the first one in a t-bone crash at an intersection. Not a scratch on her. Since her birthday is actually today I wouldn't let her get her license until all the snow had fallen in Evahboost the following Spring and no passengers for her first year. My current Wintah Beatah is a B5 A4 1.8tqm. Either the 2.8 or the 1.8 in Quattro would make a great car for a kid. Tons of 2nd hand parts and mods.

Hap, wit dakine learning to drive memories not from Evahboost, Maguire


On Dec 8, 2009, at 7:28 AM, Brian Armstead wrote:

> Regarding teen cars, they need a certain amount of power to be able to 
> get out of trouble. Merging onto a highway in a slow car when everyone 
> is busting 80 mph is no treat for a young driver. That being said, folks 
> are pretty dumb to buy high performance cars for young drivers.
> 
> Taka, I disagree with the manual for teen concept, though I agree it 
> would 'help' to keep them occupied.  Young drivers have enough to focus 
> on besides wondering if they've chosen the right gear to accelerate out 
> of the way of the Escalade they wrongly pulled into the path of...
> 
> Brian
> 
> Taka Mizutani wrote:
>> 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
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