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Would you buy your newly-licensed teen a brand new car?

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12-16-2010 at 07:49 AM.
12-16-2010 at 07:49 AM.
Quote from vec :
Iagree (3 times in one thread laugh out loud )
It's like a world record laugh out loud
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12-16-2010 at 07:50 AM.
12-16-2010 at 07:50 AM.
Quote from cookiemonster. :
OMG It is to me.

Our most expensive car was 7k and it's pretty nice.

Guess it's just our ways of thinking.
You cannot compare North Carolina prices to New York Metropolitan Area prices. We don't use wooden nickels up here any longer. laugh out loud
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12-16-2010 at 07:51 AM.
12-16-2010 at 07:51 AM.
Quote from vec :
Everything north of Westchester is Canada . Everyone knows that New York ends at the Westchester\Canada border. nod
LMAO gotcha

Crazy how I've heard my friends in "The City" or Long Island refer to Yonkers as "Upstate" Doh
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12-16-2010 at 07:51 AM.
12-16-2010 at 07:51 AM.
Hypothetical offspring? Funny.
I used to have a lot of grand ideas about how children should be raised until I started having my own.
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12-16-2010 at 07:51 AM.
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LMAO gotcha

Crazy how I've heard my friends in "The City" or Long Island refer to Yonkers as "Upstate" Doh
It is.
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cookiemonster.
12-16-2010 at 07:52 AM.
12-16-2010 at 07:52 AM.
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You live in North Carolina? That whole state is in the boonies, right? Well that's the difference. If you lived in a bigger city, 30k wouldn't be much.

Bigger city = higher cost of living = higher salaries Dontknow (not to mention the lack of inbreeding)
30k for a brand new car, yes it isn't much.

I meant 30k for a car in general is too damn much.
Then again i'm a very frugal person that spends the least amount of money possible on stuff of this caliber.

Quote from vec :
You cannot compare North Carolina prices to New York Metropolitan Area prices. We don't use wooden nickels up here any longer. laugh out loud
laugh out loud I should have been more clear, I meant 30k in general, not by states or whatnot.
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12-16-2010 at 07:54 AM.
12-16-2010 at 07:54 AM.
No, I would not because it teaches them no responsibility as to earning their own things, and they would not respect it. I've seen my sister give each of her girls a new car, and within a year each one of them has gotten ticket after ticket, and crashed every single one of them. My son already knows he's getting my car when he turns old enough, and I am the one getting the new car. (nissan z350 whoohoo). It is a reliable car, one I don't have to worry about him in, and it's already paid for anyway. But he will be responsible for the insurance and taxes if he wants to keep it. If he doesn't want that car, then he can buy his own car. I'm not buying one for him.
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12-16-2010 at 07:57 AM.
12-16-2010 at 07:57 AM.
Quote from Melmo :
No, I would not because it teaches them no responsibility as to earning their own things, and they would not respect it. I've seen my sister give each of her girls a new car, and within a year each one of them has gotten ticket after ticket, and crashed every single one of them. My son already knows he's getting my car when he turns old enough, and I am the one getting the new car. (nissan z350 whoohoo). It is a reliable car, one I don't have to worry about him in, and it's already paid for anyway. But he will be responsible for the insurance and taxes if he wants to keep it. If he doesn't want that car, then he can buy his own car. I'm not buying one for him.
It's the parents fault if the kids do not respect things nod
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12-16-2010 at 07:58 AM.
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Quote from Melmo :
No, I would not because it teaches them no responsibility as to earning their own things, and they would not respect it. I've seen my sister give each of her girls a new car, and within a year each one of them has gotten ticket after ticket, and crashed every single one of them. My son already knows he's getting my car when he turns old enough, and I am the one getting the new car. (nissan z350 whoohoo). It is a reliable car, one I don't have to worry about him in, and it's already paid for anyway. But he will be responsible for the insurance and taxes if he wants to keep it. If he doesn't want that car, then he can buy his own car. I'm not buying one for him.
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It's the parents fault if the kids do not respect things nod
Iagree with vec.

I was given my first car (well technically it wasn't mine, it was still my parents, but I drove it 95% of the time), I respected it. I bought my next car myself, I respected it just as much.
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12-16-2010 at 07:59 AM.
12-16-2010 at 07:59 AM.
Quote from slickJAVA :
Hypothetical offspring? Funny.
I used to have a lot of grand ideas about how children should be raised until I started having my own.
Wasn't referring to you when i mentioned hypothetical offspring... just meant I don't have kids and no way i'd buy them a 30k car. I wouldn't even buy them a used car. I was just saying that in the hypothetical situation, where I had a hypothetical kiddle, where I would hypothetically feel compelled to buy them a new car, they'd definitely be driving a $10k nissan versa Big Grin
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12-16-2010 at 08:00 AM.
12-16-2010 at 08:00 AM.
Quote from cookiemonster. :
30k for a brand new car, yes it isn't much.

I meant 30k for a car in general is too damn much.
Then again i'm a very frugal person that spends the least amount of money possible on stuff of this caliber.



laugh out loud I should have been more clear, I meant 30k in general, not by states or whatnot.
Yeah, and 25k would buy a damn nice used car in comparison to what you could get new for that price.
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12-16-2010 at 08:01 AM.
12-16-2010 at 08:01 AM.
Quote from idkMyBFFist :
LMAO gotcha

Crazy how I've heard my friends in "The City" or Long Island refer to Yonkers as "Upstate" Doh
Now you know what they're talking about. laugh out loud
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12-16-2010 at 08:03 AM.
12-16-2010 at 08:03 AM.
Quote from IVIax :
Iagree with vec.

I was given my first car (well technically it wasn't mine, it was still my parents, but I drove it 95% of the time), I respected it. I bought my next car myself, I respected it just as much.
My first car was kinda like that, it was never "mine", but I was the one who drove it all the time. It wasn't quite a piece of crap (in that it was reliable), but I doubt they could have sold it for more than $500. It was ugly, sixteen years old, and burned a quart of oil per week, but I still respected it and took care of it, because it sure beat walking/bumming rides/taking the bus.
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12-16-2010 at 08:05 AM.
12-16-2010 at 08:05 AM.
Quote from Frogstar :
Yeah, and 25k would buy a damn nice used car in comparison to what you could get new for that price.
You could get:
2007 Infiniti G35 X with 29k miles on it for $24, 599
2007 Hummer H3 X with 45K miles for $23,998
2010 Dodge Challenger SE with 3k miles for $22,998

etc, etc.
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12-16-2010 at 08:05 AM.
12-16-2010 at 08:05 AM.
Quote from idkMyBFFist :
Wasn't referring to you when i mentioned hypothetical offspring... just meant I don't have kids and no way i'd buy them a 30k car. I wouldn't even buy them a used car. I was just saying that in the hypothetical situation, where I had a hypothetical kiddle, where I would hypothetically feel compelled to buy them a new car, they'd definitely be driving a $10k nissan versa Big Grin
No worries, I wasn't singling your comments out.
I've seen the hypothetical kid stuff a couple times in this thread.

For the record, I don't feel compelled to put our 16-y.o. behind the wheel of a car, so buying him a car (new or otherwise) hasn't even been considered. He refuses to even get a job. "Why do I need a job? None of my friends have a job." SMH
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