<p>I had a Ford Pinto - my Dad bought it for me senior year in college and I put it 200k miles on it before selling it. I loved that car. I still have a picture of it. I kept it through graduate school, teaching and law school and bought what was then my dream car - a Mazda RX7. </p>
<p>I got a used car for D her senior year in high school because her magnet school didn’t provide bus service and I chose to have her drive rather than be driven by her friends whose driving I didn’t trust. </p>
<p>I don’t see the benefit to condemning those who choose to buy nice things for their kids. It’s just a “so what” to me. My D rode horses and she was more envious of kids who could afford 5 figure horses than 5 figure cars.</p>