<p>I live in an upper class town and in general if anyone drives a car like that just get **** on. Their parents definitely spoil them. It is more of a status symbol to drive an older cheaper car and explain how you got it then drive one of those.</p>
<p>Personally, I find it just completely foolish on the parents’ part. This is a new driver. It is highly likely they will end up in some kind of accident, scratching the car up, making mistakes, etc. They do not even need a new car let alone a luxury vehicle. Even if I were a rich parent, I wouldn’t be handing any of my kids an expensive car shortly after they got their license.</p>
<p>We nixed one town where we saw some beautiful homes because the student parking lot had cars that were much better than those in the teachers’ lot. We did not think that giving a HS kid a brand new fancy car was a message we wanted to give to our children. In fact, when we did move out of the city, we bought a home within walking distance of the HS so there was no reason to even have to discuss cars for HS’ers.</p>
<p>My D is a junior in college. We will help her buy a car (used) when she begins to student teach because she is upstate where it snows and I don’t want her relying on the limited public transportation system when her employment is concerned. My next son is a senior and he hasn’t even gone for his road test yet. I do want him to do so because I think it’s important to have a license. One of his friends has a fancy car, but the family owns a car dealership!</p>
<p>We helped our oldest son buy a used car because he needed it for work but he is 21 and had not owned a car before. Actually, this one is in my name and he uses it, so he still doesn’t own a car.</p>
<p>I live in an area that is listed as among the wealthiest in the nation. I live in what could be called (if one were overly generous!) a “starter home.” We bought the least house we could swing in the best SD we could find and have never moved. Many kids have their own cars here and many have very fancy cars. They are not always the richest kids but the kids with the “wanna be” parents. My kids don’t generally hang out with those kids. They have many friends who are very wealthy and whose parents have not felt the need to buy a 17 year old a Porsche. One of my D’s friend’s parents bought her a nice car when she agreed to spend her first year at a state school before transferring to private. It was a Honda and the child was thrilled.</p>
<p>So, my humble opinion, is NOBODY needs a Porsche or those cars. I long for the day when I live in the city again and only rent a car when I go somewhere.</p>
<p>I personally don’t care. If someone has the money to afford it then good for them. I have no problem with people driving expensive or old used cars. A lot of people seem to connect cars with status but I’ve always seen cars as the giant mental thing on wheels that helps you get to places without walking. </p>
<p>Though, where I’m from these cars are pretty rare so most people are impressed. Except me. I’m the type of person that doesn’t care what other people do with their money.</p>
<p>Just another reason why the rich need to be taxed more</p>
<p>You’re crazy dora</p>
<p>whats more important is who will be driving them 30 years from now, when our peers and not our parents will be the ones paying for them</p>
<p>Why get all ****y because some kids have parents that will buy them nice cars? Get over it.</p>
<p>One girl drives a freaking Ford Bronco with 30" wheels to school. I <3 the South.</p>
<p>sometimes it’s alright. I mean, if its their parents’ car or if their parents just got them a gift. I personally don’t think their is anything wrong with it. </p>
<p>the thing is, it’s usually the snobbish kids whose parents buy them ANYTHING if they maintain a C- average. at my school it’s normally those kinds of kids driving those cars. and their parents pay $5000/ hour for their sweet sixteens. I mean, c’mon, their are starving people in this world, you could have probably saved at least a hundred lives with that money.</p>
<p>High schoolers should pay for at least 50% of their first car IMO. It’s a great way to teach responsibility. I know I’m much more careful with mine because I worked hard to help pay for it…</p>
<p>Trying to save up a few thousand (less than $7K) to buy a used BMW or something.</p>
<p>That would be intensely satisfying.</p>
<p>I dunno, I don’t want to spend $7K on a car if I can help it. That could much more productively go to my college fund.</p>
<p>$7K is a lot anyway. A couple summers working almost full-time. But I guess if you really want a BMW…</p>
<p>I dunno. Probably gonna go no more than $5K anyways.</p>
<p>If a kid pulled up to my school parking lot in anything more fanciful than a Firebird, that car’d be stripped clean, hot-wired and driven half-way to Mexico before school got out. Lol</p>
<p>The nicest car in my entire town is a Lotus Elise. I live in a ghetto war-zone. That’s why the Lotus’s owner only drives his car in daylight and down the main roads.</p>
<p>That’s also why I drive to school in a [M4</a> Sherman](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_Sherman]M4”>M4 Sherman - Wikipedia). :</p>
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<p>My donkey > your tank.</p>
<p>^Probably. I bought that POS off Craigslist. </p>
<p>I’m thinking of tricking it out with some spinners so I can earn some street cred.</p>
<p>If they can afford it, its none of my business.</p>
<p>give me a ride? nah, im just like good for you bro, especially those dudes that have that 2011 camaro and those 2 corvettes, epic.</p>
<p>I could care less. It’s none of my business what car they drive.</p>