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Worst First Car for a 16yo boy

Good for him, He will be getting all types of poon in that back seat. and Bravo for being a manual, and being one of the best sedans you can get.


After about 3 fill ups, he won't want to drive it, then when he has to replace his Vanos or clutch he will sell it!
 
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Good for him, He will be getting all types of poon in that back seat. and Bravo for being a manual, and being one of the best sedans you can get.


After about 3 fill ups, he won't want to drive it, then when he has to replace his Vanos or clutch he will sell it!

Dat Vanos....$2,200 (EACH!)
 
When it breaks it's a $70K car, when it runs it's a $15K car.

Uh that math...

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Checks out. :(
 
I think it's often just luck to live through your teens. I grew up during the muscle car days, and everybody had something lethal - best friend had a 4.4.2, another friend a 383 Roadrunner, cousins had a Z-28 and SS 396 Chevelle, sister's boyfriend #1 a Boss 302, boyfriend #2 a Dart 340 and his friend a GT500. The highway patrol had 440 Magnums to keep up. My folks wouldn't let me have a motorcycle but bought a '69 GTO (400ci/350hp and 4-wheel drum brakes!) - theirs but mine to drive. And I sure would have loved that M5. My daughter's first car? - a Ford Escort.
 
When it breaks it's a $70K car, when it runs it's a $15K car.
Not sure I would ever spend $15K on that generation M5...Just like I passed on a beauty 911 with under 10K miles for $23K...the potential down side is so huge. If you have the $$$ to throw at these types of enormously expensive problems, you probably have the money to buy a new less problem prone car or enough sense to just forget about buying those cars altogether.
:laughing
 
you probably have the money to buy a new less problem prone car or enough sense to just forget about buying those cars altogether.
:laughing

this, my avatar is built up of 3 different car names and mfg

then i hit mid 20s and realized "its all a dream"

why finance a 60k+ toy when it gets you from point A to point B, its all materialism, so sad indeed
 
I think it's often just luck to live through your teens. I grew up during the muscle car days, and everybody had something lethal - best friend had a 4.4.2, another friend a 383 Roadrunner, cousins had a Z-28 and SS 396 Chevelle, sister's boyfriend #1 a Boss 302, boyfriend #2 a Dart 340 and his friend a GT500. The highway patrol had 440 Magnums to keep up. My folks wouldn't let me have a motorcycle but bought a '69 GTO (400ci/350hp and 4-wheel drum brakes!) - theirs but mine to drive. And I sure would have loved that M5. My daughter's first car? - a Ford Escort.
Sounds like you grew up in the same era and a similar environment that I grew up in!
I had friends with GTO, 69 Firebird, Chevelle SS, Roadrunner, Mach 1 and a variety of other muscle cars. Most of them lived and worked on farms, the driving age was 14 in Idaho and most of them had these cars in Junior High (grades 7-9)! :wow
 
Drove the parents stuff. But unlike typical 16 yo's my buddies called me grandpa the way I drove. Easy does it to not get a ticket or crash dad's stuff knowing what the costs and disappointments were.

My first car was a bike. They wouldn't let me get a bike but bit by bit parts came home and one day a '48 panhead sorta Peter Fonda chopper rolled out the garage. Then a $50 '63 Dodge. The most horribly engineered POS ever made but the thing ran for like 5 years.

My kids? You want a car, you buy it, you insure it, you maintain it. That mandate worked as they're still alive 20 years later.
 
Sounds like you grew up in the same era and a similar environment that I grew up in!
I had friends with GTO, 69 Firebird, Chevelle SS, Roadrunner, Mach 1 and a variety of other muscle cars. Most of them lived and worked on farms, the driving age was 14 in Idaho and most of them had these cars in Junior High (grades 7-9)! :wow

Yeah, small town surrounded by farmland. This was '68/'69 - we were more like HS seniors and the cars were new with driveline warranties. Lots of engines replaced around that time.
 
I drove one of these in high school (and across the country twice). No regrets, despite it being a horrible car for a kid. It survived my ownership in great shape to be totaled by the middle aged friend of my parents who bought it from me.

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Nice ride. But why is it horrible for a kid? It's not exactly fast (no offense).
 
The Hennessey Mustang needed 775 hp, 3.15 gears and still needed 500rpm of over-rev to get to 209mph.
It probably didn't happen. The power isn't really that hard to come by anymore but Anybody that's into modifying their vehicle probably puts a lot more gear into it. That and you need a decent amount of straight road to hit that too. Not an impossible feat, just not likely.
Epic memory
. I'm an OG around here.
 
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