Spoiled Kids Cars

Here is the kicker...

Guy with the Countach ? His name was Frank Ferrari

 

She is trading up,not down. Each husband she get's is richer than the other. It would be like going from a 308 to a 355 and then a 430.

 

Sorry, I meant her husband's were "trading down".

 

And I thought my friends and I were cool with our hooked up Hondas...
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Bazinga!

 

I did high school online so I could work in my dad's business and intern elsewhere, but a lot of my friends had BMW 1 - 3 series and Mazda 3s. My dad and I did some work in a school district on the North Shore of Long Island and the student parking lot was filled with Audi S4s, BMW M3s, Mercedes G55 AMGs, Range Rovers, and other brand new foreign cars. It was kind of depressing to compare the staff lot to the student lot, actually.

My first was a 1996 Camry with 200K miles. Then I purchased (with my own money) a 996, had tons of problems with it, and now I have an '04 Audi A4 (great college car).

But yes, where I was from in Northern Virginia, kids had ridiculously nice cars at a ridiculously early age.

 

when I was in HS,the rich kids all had ''trans ams'',1978,,so I bought a 78' Z28 [paper route and lawm mowing and my hand-me-down 72' dodge dart]

 

DC skews everything there. If you only looked in that area you would think the country was doing great.

It is like Bentonville, AR. if that were the only city you saw in Arkansas you would say that the area is very wealthy. It isn't.

 

Lots of exotics at my high school in the 80s. the folks who did well later in life saved up to buy their own junker and learn to change their own oil etc. that includes the filthy rich kids.

Doing well to give our children the better things in life means nice family vacations and opportunities for schools/businesses we didn't have. It doesn't mean giving them pricey objects without learning how to earn them. What a disservice.

I know very few (although there are some... Just a rarity) kids who had things given to them who grew up to understand hard work and understand any empathy. How many high schoolers with expensive cars treat service workers with respect and dignity?

I personally find teens driving their own expensive cars given to them by their parents quite wrong and indicative of something pretty wrong in the family.

 

Completely agree. Giving your kid a fancy car is about being able to tell your friends you bought your kid a fancy car OR you are a wet noodle and capitulate to your child's crazy demands.

 

Not sure if you are joking but a Dutch guy with this name sold 100thousands singles all over Europe in the mid seventies Frank Ferrari - Wikipedia
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoASnkE2OhA]Frank Ferrari - Sweet love - YouTube[/ame]

 

Now that is funny.

 

Talk about being motivated!

 

So you are saying each one is fatter than the first?

 

My parents bought me a Boss 302 Mustang...then promptly gave me the payment coupon book and told me to never miss a payment. Same thing for my wife and her parents with her GTO (which she still owns).

I think we both had great parents. It taught us responsibility at a young age.

 

I drove a (then) new 7 series which my dad didn't use (worked from home) most of the time. Did I get comments? Yes. Did I care? No. The people that commented drove a bus to school most of the time. Many of them still do, except instead of school they now go with their many children (with many different fathers/mothers) to do absolutely nothing.

I learned to ignore these ignorant oxygen thiefs quite early in life and am happier because of it. I've had money and been very poor, but I've never resented anyone for having more than I do.

I think my point is that the fools that comment, will always comment regardless of what your kids drive.

 

I have four children and bought them all safe-nice cars to drive, BMW 325, MB GLK350, VW Tiquan and MB C300. But, before buying them a car, they each had to learn to ride a motorcycle, drive a manual transmission, take the Skip Barber driving school at Road Atlanta and the Tire Rack Teen Survivor School. I still have them sign up for PCA DE events on occasion and frequently hop in their car and have them drive me somewhere so I can observe their continuing driver skill improvement. They have all become auto enthusiast like me.

 

Check this out guys!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH8sSKwS_gU

 

Well done Dad!!!!

 

CTS-V? Raptor? BMW?

pffft senior year I drove a mid engined Italian thoroughbred.

Fiat X1/9 baby!
Cost $400, paid for by me.

Giving your kid a brand new car is fine if you don't care about them learning the value of working to earn something for themselves, the concept of delayed gratification, or an understanding of how cars/machines work and how they need to be maintained.

 

I had the option of having my dad purchase a Ferrari for me, I turned it down. I also had the option of having him contribute towards my first car purchase, I turned that down.
To me, the value of working to earn something to achieve a goal was well worth the journey. There are a lot more life lessons that way, and I don’t take the car for granted. I feel it as a validation of my success.

I am proud of it, but it keep it a secret and never talk about it to colleagues or friends. As the first reaction would be, “you’re a spoiled rich kid”