Argh...I'm about to head to work and finish the paperwork on a car I sold yesterday. A 17yo kid who just totalled out his 95 2.0 Golf is now being brought a 2001 VW Golf GTi VR6. This car is a weapon and half....and it's being given to a kid who totalled his out through speeding.
Not until the casket closes mate! The guy I knew in highschool cried about wanting a new car to his mom and threatened to go as fast as he could and then crash it. That way she would have to buy him a new car!:eek3: His 'rents didn't want him to hurt himself, so they upgraded his already fast Mitsubishi....bought him a STi which he's in the process of turning into a wrX?:roll: Crashed it twice and had it rebuilt twice...hasen't died yet. Btw...he had a stock boost gauge on the column, added the three gauge clock replacement pod and wanted to have two boost gauges hooked up! One for him, and one for the passenger!:laugh: :laugh: What a TOOL!!!
I think they're just into natural selection. Hopefully he wont unpimp someone elses auto in the process.
is it wrong that I don't feel bad about selling this family the kids casket? i think it's stupid what they are doing but I don't feel bad for being the one to sell them the car. I guess it comes from being married to a funeral director.
If you don't...someone else will! Your job is to sell the cars, its the parents responsibility to research the vehicle. They'll understand what they bought when they see the insurance rates!!wned:
they know the insurance rate and the father has driven the car "Wow. It has some pick-up doesn't it?"
If your wife is a Funeral Director you can just give them her card and then you both win! You get the sale, she gets the funeral. How can you lose?
Yup. The apple usually doesn't fall that far from the tree. Or maybe the parents don't like the kid an have a fat life insurance policy on him?!? :laugh:
Hmm .. maybe they are already aware of it and are ... hoping for the worst :laugh: Or what walloftvs said ^^^
Chances are his parents have just researched the crash test ratings on the car, which are probably pretty darn good. Its just a shame that the ratings dont tell % of deaths from accidents 70mph+, or what happens when it gets rolled going 70. Those are the kind of things that come of street racing, especially with no previous performance driving training. It seems that a new trend in our area is that parents have found giving money is easier than giving time to their kids. A nice car MUST mean you love them, right? :ugh:
There was an Onion headline a while back along the lines of "Abortion Doctor Aborted in 70th Trimester Abortion/Bombing" When I get out of work I'll find the link to it, it's a good one.
The only car my parents ever bought for me was a late 80's plymouth reliant, which turned out to not live up to it's name. They shelled out 700 bucks and expected me to pay that back to them. I doubt these parents even bothered to check ratings or anything, they probably just bought the car the kid wanted.
I personally disagree with parents buying super nice/fast cars for their kids. However, some people just have loads of money and a 20-30K car may actually be a beater to them.
When my kid is old enough I'll get him a safe, slow car that is cheap enough to lower my insurance bill by enough to cover the purchase price of the car in the first two years.
ok, im only 19, but I still agree with everything said. There is no way in hell any new driver should have a fast car. I learned to drive when i was like 7 (gotta love living in the country) and I still would have killed myself or someone else if I had a fast car when i got my lisence. I always want to bitch slap parentls when you here about fathers letting their sons take the ZO6 to prom and then they kill themselves in it. Seriously, if I understand this, why can't the supposedly more responsible older people get it.
Looks like I'll be avoiding any Black Golf GTIs even if grandma is driving. Once I get my car fixed that is.
So, on my lunch break today....I saw a Black GTi pulled over on the side by a state patrol cop. Yep, you guessed it. You wouldn't read about it eh?
Amazing. I got pulled over in my sti on the drive home from the dealership. The guy said the wing was blocking his view of the temp license. I thought to myself, you can read those things from your cruiser? wow great eyesight. I had to be about 6" from it to read it. Then he said he wouldn't give me a ticket. Gosh, thanks, since the dealer taped it on there.
^^^ Lmao!!!! This thread makes me laugh... :lollollollol: The only car my parents ever bought me............................................ Oh wait, they never bought me a car... I paid $2000 for my 1990 Dodge Spirit ES Turbo at the ripe old age of 18!!! (LOL at the turbo part... turbo DOG) Maybe, just maybe, the car crash and the tickets will instill a sense of responsibility in him......... :eek3: Oh wait, nevermind, I forgot the parents are dropping the ca$h... *shakes head*
wish my parents spoiled me like that after my first RS was totaled(mind you i wasn't racing). I'm working my butt off paying for my current RS and insurance. My parents should've upgraded me to a STi =D
That stage 2+ is contagious! sadly this is becoming quite the trend. at my HS, it wasnt uncommon to see a lot of Mercedes/BMW/Audi/Lexus. i know one kid flipped his audi and ended up in a coma for a week or so. another guy ate a tree (while airborne) in a Z3. on the plus side my parent did buy me my subaru! even though its not lethal fast.
I plan on having my kids start racing at an early age so they know speed is for the track (or ND). And that way they'll be skilled enough to NOT get in over their heads on the street.
^^ What Saabaru said. Racing is for the TRACK. I too grew up in the sticks, so I was driving well by the time I was 16. First car cost me 300 bucks. People that spend this much on their kids make me sick.
My parent's let me buy my first vehicle, then when i figured out that I couldn't afford the gas for a 300hp lifted truck, (10mpg on a good day) they were nice enough to give me a fuel effeciant camry.
my wagon was plenty fast..... was quite faster with suspension mods....now it has power to go fast in between the turns.....now the steering is faster too.....OMG everything is faster......
I started driving when i was 12 as well, not by living in the country, by having a dad obsessed with cars. Got my car when i was 14,bought it 50/50 with my dad (1995 del sol VTEC). and let me just say this car is definetly too fast for a first car. One of my acquaintences has a 2002 VW jetta vr6 and , no offense, but its not that fast, in fact in pretty sure my HoNdUh VCRAcK power would walk him, if i still thought going fast in a straight line was cool... anyway, i dont really know where i was going with this.....basically, if your a parent get them something cheap and slow...
