[s-cars] Teen cars Mine vs UrS4 .. Who wins?

[Brett Dikeman]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM,  <djdawson2 at aol.com> wrote:

> I have my own empirical evidence...  My oldest girl was carefully trained by me.
>  Stick car, Colorado winters and a long commute to school, some of it interstate highway.
> She was the first driver, and training her was somewhat of a novelty for me, so I was careful
> and spent plenty of time with her.  She's been driving for 6 years now, and has yet to have any incident.

You can train your kid to be the best driver in the world, and it will
do jack when they get broadsided by some asshole checking his
blackberry, or some idiot driving with bald tires.

The Mini was a good answer. Reasonably priced used (I think?) for the
base models, slow, safe, good handling, and reasonably practical.  The
only shame is that your kid will throw up every time they get in and
look at the interior.

Other good candidates: second-generation a4, P2 Volvos.

-B