Post by wildfloweragain on Apr 24, 2023 16:41:48 GMT -5
Nobody drove a K car? A nice reliant automobile?
I got my license at age 17. I was scared and learning on stick shift bc both parents and both step parents had stick shift. My dad thought it would be great for my first lesson to take me on a busy hill with a stop light at the top. Of course I rolled into the lady in back of me and refused to drive for a year.
When I was 18 and deciding on a college, my parents said if I go to community college for the first 2 years, they could afford to give me mom's old Honda Accord. Not really sure why they put it that way, because I paid for all of my college. But it worked at the time and I took them up on that. But a lot of my friends drove K cars.
We have one beater car that my husband was using to commute for work so he didn't drive the truck. He currently has a work car from work, but only as long as he is stationed where he is, prob another 4 months. The current idea is both of the 16+ kids will share it with DH. Right now they use it for driving lessons.
I think a lot more families have minivans now. We do. Wanting our kids to have smaller cars might be why a lot of parents are looking to get kids cars but not handing down the minivan.
Post by SusanBAnthony on Apr 24, 2023 16:48:58 GMT -5
I got my great grandma's car when she died and had to shae it with my siblings. It wasn't really mine, when I went to college it stayed with my siblings. It was a 1988 Subaru and at the time station wagons were deeply uncool. Now I would be a cool hipster high schooler lol. My parents paid insurance and we all paid gas. My brother got in a fender bender once and had to pay for repairs.
We will get DS a car when he needs it junior year to drive himself to one of his classes. He will then share it with DD when she gets her license. If he didn't have to drive himself to a class we wouldn't buy one for him most likely although a lot can change between ages 15 and 18 so never say never. It will be old lol. Our neighbors are selling a 2008 accord and we are thinking about buying it but we don't need it for 18 months.... so we'll probably pass and hopefully find a similar deal when we need it.
I got a hand me down Corolla. It lasts me another 10 years! I think my parents (my mom at least) could not wait for me to drive. I went to private school so it wasn't walking distance, no bus, and no one else close by to car pool with, plus worked a lot after school in a totally different area and my mom drove all around the beltway between her job and my stuff.
I'm not sure what we'll do for our kids it's so far off. I think a hand me down or older reliable car is reasonable.
I didn’t get my license until I was 20? 19? If you were over 18 you didn’t have to take drivers ed, you just had to pass the tests. We only had one family car and there was no way I was getting my own so there wasn’t much point.
I took the bus to college and walked the 2 miles to high school. I didn’t get a car until grad school when I was 24 and I drive still it today!
Post by RoxMonster on Apr 24, 2023 17:01:50 GMT -5
I got my license right at 16 and my parents bought me a used six-year-old Ford Taurus that I drove until later in college. With them both working and me having a job in the summer (and not having any sort of reliable public transit in our city), it was pretty much a necessity that I have a way to get around.
It was always a shared family car unless you did Running Start. So my four older sisters got beaters to drive around in and I shared with my parents.
My DS will not be neurotypical child experience I might have had with a different kid. He's Autistic. I don't know that he'll ever drive. Time will tell. If he does drive he'll get one of our old cars when we need to upgrade or share with us. Our current cars will be 11 and 9 years old when DS turns sixteen.
My sister and I shared an old car of the family’s. She had been driving for two years already. My kids will get one of our old cars, I guess, but they will not get a new car.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Post by notsopicky on Apr 24, 2023 19:29:57 GMT -5
My dad bought a little red Toyota truck for me to drive. It was not my car. It was his car, that he let me drive. It had no radio and no AC. I drove it to work, to friends' houses, to school during my senior year (I had a very late birthday, I didn't turn 16 until 1/2way through my junior year). I always had to ask to drive it, and sometimes he said no (if he had to use it to haul something).
When I went to college I didn't have a car my first year. As a sophomore, my dad bought me my first car and I took it with me to college. I loved that car (a used '88 Ford Escort). I drove it until I graduated, and then he bought me a brand new Ford Aspire. It looked like an egg. I always said that it Aspired to be a real car, lol.
Post by mysteriouswife on Apr 24, 2023 19:39:11 GMT -5
My dad is a mechanic. I got a used car he drug up somewhere. It wasn’t until recently he told me a person died in it during a medical emergency. 🥴
DD has zero interest in driving. So we will likely share if she decides ti get her permit soon. DS is a wild card. We will figure out if he can drive when he hits that age
It sucks that even used cars are so expensive now. I feel like the days are gone where you could get a car for a few grand. I still remember my Plymouth Neon (the car I got after I wrecked my first one) was $5498.
I'm still driving an '06 Toyota, maybe some family can buy it from me someday and it can be their teen's beater car, lol.
I turned 16 just as summer started so went off to a summer ballet intensive for 6 weeks but my parents bought me a car as soon as I returned.
Besides being very fortunate, my sisters and I are pretty close in age, my parents were divorced, and my mom was re-entering the work force. A car for me meant that I could help drive siblings around and get myself to my activities.
I'm not sure what we'll do for DD. She may get DH's current car if that is a good option or we may buy her something. It will mostly depend on where we are with our vehicles in 5 years. I'm leaving this mostly up to DH, he is really into cars so already researching potential options. My preference is something reliable and used at 16 then we can consider upgrading at a milestone if it's warranted and needed.
I started making money at a very young age (farm kid) so I had a lot of money saved up. I bought my vehicle a few months before getting my license at 16. I was the only one of my friends to have a car all through high school.
Post by killercupcake on Apr 24, 2023 20:09:04 GMT -5
My parents bought me a new car when I was 15.5. They got a good deal on it so my mom didn’t want to pass it up and I could use it to learn how to drive.
I think if we’re in the position to do so, we will buy our kids a car. My car lasted me 12ish years, so I figure if we can help our kids out the same way, we will. It was really nice getting all the way into adulthood without a car payment. Definitely helped me a lot.
Post by chickadee77 on Apr 24, 2023 20:15:09 GMT -5
Got my license at 16. No WAY would I have gotten a car at that point, lol. My parents (mom) bitched about driving me everywhere, but weren't about to give up the control they had by being my ride.
I got a car in college, when I was commuting from home to class. Geo Metro, so top of the line in WI winters ,lol.
Post by lilypad1126 on Apr 24, 2023 20:36:37 GMT -5
Got my license at 16 the very second I could. Then about 4 weeks later my grandparents helped my parents buy me a used car. I was a junior and had a job, was taking classes at the local college in addition to high school, and played varsity tennis. We lived in a very rural area and at first my grandparents were going to help my dad drive me, but as noted that lasted a couple weeks before everyone was over it. Lol.
In addition I was able to drive sister around, pick her up from school, run errands for my parents. I was responsible for gas and not wrecking it, haha.
I still don’t have my license! Have two cars in my driveway that I can’t drive. 😂 (one is my dad’s)
There is no way we’d give our kids new cars. Our current car is 3 years old, and my dad’s car is a year old. My dad has already offered to pass on the car to us/the kids as needed. My oldest is almost 10, so our cars would be a good age to pass down to him when he’s 16/17.
The "shared car" I drove was a decade old Dodge Aries
(It was the second car which I would drive my brother and I to school, but I didn't necessarily have use of during after school hours or weekends. It stayed when I went to college - it was always clear that it wasn't "my" car and I needed case by case permission to drive it.)
I got my license at 16 and didn't have my own car until my senior year of university. My parents bought me a car as a graduation gift - a '98 Toyota Camry. In high school I shared my parents' cars and didn't really have need for one at school or on breaks.
We don't plan to buy DS a car right away, but will consider it if/when he goes to university depending on his needs then. He won't get his licence until the end of junior year. We live in an area that is pretty walkable and have decent public transit. Between those options, us driving him, and him borrowing our cars we'll get through high school.
Post by 1confused1 on Apr 24, 2023 23:30:49 GMT -5
I got a car shortly after I got my license at 16. It wasn’t “mine” necessarily, when my sister got her license, she got to drive it and I couldn’t take it with me to college.
I bought my son a truck about 6 months before he got his license so he could practice driving it. I’m a single mom so I wanted a second car for him to use.
Post by Wines Not Whines on Apr 25, 2023 4:24:00 GMT -5
I didn’t get a car when I got my license. I was allowed to drive my parents’ cars. I didn’t have a car in college. My parents bought themselves a new car when I was in law school, and then they gave me their old car. I think I was 22 at the time, and that was my first car that was mine.
My son is 12, so he could drive in 4 years (scary thought for me). At that time, my car will be 11 years old and DH’s car will be 10 years old. If they’re still in good shape, one of us will probably buy a new car and let DS drive our old car.
Post by Velar Fricative on Apr 25, 2023 5:26:50 GMT -5
Well….I didn’t get my license until I was 24 and then it still took 8 years for me to drive regularly after the road test lol.
I live in NYC. My kids can take the bus, train, or walk. That’s a big reason we live in the neighborhood we live in. But, depending on where they go to college I would like them to at least learn before they go.
I drove ASAP once I turned 16, in a couple different shared family cars: an ancient Chevy S10 pickup, and a Mercury Sable station wagon that I drove my sister and myself to school in.
That was probably the biggest motivation for me to be trusted with driving ASAP -- so that my mom didn't have to drive us 50 minutes each way to our private school. I was also a super-responsible kid. I drove a company vehicle for my summer employer (pool care company) sometimes as well.
My parents did get me a car the summer of my junior year at college. It was a bug-eyed Mercury Sable sedan (used). I was able to give some suggestions on make/model but ultimately my dad made the final call on what was purchased. They did the same for my siblings.
I was not given a car; that was not something my parents could do.
My kid gets their license this year, and they will possibly get our old Camry next year if we don’t trade it in. However, we’re almost completely fossil fuel free in our household; that car is the only thing left. We might just tell the kid to suck it up and take the bus.