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Smart Shopper Best Car for a new teenage driver
554 messages, Last post on Nov 08, 2009 at 7:33 PM
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| Thanks for your feedback. I see where you're coming from -- a 16 year old should appreciate any car they get -- especially a beautiful Acura TL. I guess my question is more about safety. Although a rock solid car, my TL doesn't have side air bags/curtains -- but the CR-V does. Also, we like the fact that the CR-V sits higher. So, with safety as the main concern, would you guys prefer the '01 TL or '06 CR-V? By the way, we do live in an affluent area and many of my daughter's friends are spoiled rotten with new Lexus-es, BMWs, Mercedes, you name it. No way in hell we would ever do that -- but a used CR-V seems like a reasonable car, again, with safety as the main focus. Thanks again. | |
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Replying to: pasquali56 (Jul 24, 2009 6:46 am) If that's all well within your means I don't see any problem (other than making sure she realizes that this is a very nice gift on your part as opposed to a response to "I'm not driving a hand me down." Hey, if you want to give away the TL I'm available....
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Replying to: pasquali56 (Jul 24, 2009 6:46 am) Get her the safest car YOU want. If she disagrees give her a choice of buying a different SAFE car using HER money to pay any cost difference. You could even send her into the snake pit here to research different cars and get recommendations from the "experts". Make it a condition of getting the car. 
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Replying to: fezo (Jul 24, 2009 6:49 am) Me too! And I have a teenage son who would KILL for that car
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Replying to: kirstie_h (Jul 24, 2009 7:26 am) Of course I wouldn't mind the TL for myself.... |
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I guess I'm not being clear. My question is more about the safety comparison between the two cars. If you had the choice between an '01 Acura TL or a 2006 CR-V for a 16 year old girl (with safety as the top concern), which would you choose? The reason why my wife and I are so caught up in this is because my daughter was in an accident several months ago. She wasn't driving, but was with someone else. The car she was in t-boned another car. The side air curtain deployed in that other car -- and saved the driver's life. After seeing how that air curtain worked, I started thinking that I would want that feature for my daughter's car. The TL doesn't have it. Yes, it's still a solid car -- but that air curtain in the CR-V, and its 5 star crash rating, are the factors that are making me lean in that direction. So, with all that said, what do you guys think? |
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Replying to: pasquali56 (Jul 24, 2009 7:39 am) Let's say, for instance, the CRV gets hit from the side, pushed into a curb, and it rolls over. The TL, with its lower center of gravity, may not have flipped in that case. OR, maybe driving the TL would have avoided the accident all together, thanks to its superior handling. Of course, there is a flipside to that argument, too, as you've illustrated. I guess my point is, picking one car over another for such safety issues amounts to a hill of beans until the car is in a very particular accident that accentuates those issues.
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Have lived (suffered) through two teenaged drivers, the best thing you can do is enroll your daughter into a driving class. This way, she'll be prepared to avoid the accident, which then renders moot the issue of which car is safer. My only other piece of advise is something I got from a United in-flight magazine years ago .... the kids pay for the insurance, and have money in the bank equal to the amount of the deductible. This way, if an accident should occur, they pay the deductible and also have to suffer the consequences of higher insurance rates ... if the accident was their fault. Got to have some skin in the game. |
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Replying to: qbrozen (Jul 24, 2009 8:03 am) |
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over their Princess safety in cars, but let them go Alpine skiing without a helmet. As for entitlement choosing: I was most happy to have the permission from my folks that allowed me to buy an 11 year old 4 door sedan when I was 16. 
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