Originally Posted by flo w fx
Maybe I'm spoiled, but I feel that it's a parents responsibility, if the kid isn't a little delinquent, to buy the kid his first car. My first car got handed down to me, a BMW 325i, which my folks bought brand new - my dad blew the motor while driving it, and he bought me another car to replace it.
This is where I completely disagree, and it's simple why. The value you place in any posession is generally higher if you on your own have had to work to earn it, period. For you or any other kid on this board to think that in some way your parents are obligated to provide you any more than a house to live in food to eat your dead wrong IMO. This is the problem with kids today and I NEVER thought I would ever say that but I mean it!
Originally Posted by flo w fx
It's my goal and responsibility, and my entire POINT of existance, to be able to have a family I can provide 100% for. I wont go buy my kid a 'vette the first day he's got a license, but I'll buy him something.
How about you help your kid learn the value of ownership through the good old ok you want a car? No problem, GET A JOB.
Originally Posted by flo w fx
If you can't afford to provide necessary things, and YES I 100% feel that a car is a NECESSITY, then you shouldn't have children.
Maybe in this area but try having a car in a real city, it's nothing more than a burden, thats why I got rid of my old Jetta when I was living in boston.
Originally Posted by flo w fx
I'd love to be able to get a full free ride on everything, but I haven't. My firebird is in my name, the loan is in my name, my $30k college loan is in my name, and plenty of other cars I've owned have been mine.
If you think that's a spoiled pespective, then think what you will, I'll be honest, I think kids that get $35-40k cars handed to them at 16 fucking suck. Jealous? Shit yes. Even if I had $40k to blow on a car, my 16yo wouldn't get it until he had proven he could drive without being a typical idiot.
It's funny you should say that you are jealous of kids getting 35-40k cars handed to them in 1989 a 325i went for approximately 26,000 which today would be 37,966.86 so effectively you just
yourself!
Originally Posted by flo w fx
Hell, my mother makes an easy $75k/yr as a Project Consultant/HR Director, and my father's a cardiologist, and when I was 16 I had a 1989 BMW 325i handed down to me.
See above...
Originally Posted by flo w fx
Ritz didn't get a $50k car, he got something that nowadays would be worth about $20k, and something worth maybe 5-6k. Big deal. His father wanted to provide for him.
You have no idea how many kids would kill for that car, at one point I was one of those kids, so I got a JOB and bought MY 72 Nova, and I BUILT it, I didn't take DADDY's built nova.... etc etc