Mom doesn't agree with the s2000.
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Originally Posted by c0ok0o,Jun 2 2008, 04:15 PM
Wait, you don't know how to drive stick shift and you want a manual RWD car?? Baaddd idea! 
My parents bought my sister a stick G35....and not knowing how to drive a manual car...she blew the clutch in 3 months.
Good luck!
My parents bought my sister a stick G35....and not knowing how to drive a manual car...she blew the clutch in 3 months.
Good luck!
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Originally Posted by RED MX5,Jun 2 2008, 04:20 PM
If that is true, then it is also true that nobody without RWD experience should be allowed to own or dive an S2000. FWD fosters sloppy driving habits, and there is no way in hell I'd want my daughter starting out in a FWD car. Everyone use to start out in RWD cars with manual transmissions. I guess I should just be thankful that I don't have a bunch of wimps in a position to tell me how to raise my own kids. 
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Originally Posted by SheDrivesIt,Jun 2 2008, 04:55 PM
Stupid to you maybe but he's young. He lives with his parents. They are putting in some of the money. They have a say. Simple as that. Live with parent, follow parent's rules.
Sure, parents should have a say, but they should have a healthy relationship with their kids that will develop into a healthy relationship when the kids grow up.
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Originally Posted by chrisjgiuliano,Jun 3 2008, 05:25 PM
Dude, this is not a good car to learn manual on.
If you really wan to get your way though, tell your mom you are going to hold your breath until she lets you get it and if she doesn't you will die. Then gasp in some air and start. She will be so afraid of you suffocating she will give you anything you want.
It works, trust me
If you really wan to get your way though, tell your mom you are going to hold your breath until she lets you get it and if she doesn't you will die. Then gasp in some air and start. She will be so afraid of you suffocating she will give you anything you want.
It works, trust me
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Originally Posted by Saki GT,Jun 3 2008, 05:37 PM
Sure, parents should have a say, but they should have a healthy relationship with their kids that will develop into a healthy relationship when the kids grow up.
Up until that day I would have asked her if I could go to the movie, or would have at least told her that I "wanted to go to" the movie. She suddenly realized I was no longer asking permission. She realized I had taken that step where I was now an adult, and that things were very different between us from then on.
All over a something as trivial as an afternoon movie.
Adulthood is not something someone else grants you. It is something you grant yourself.
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Originally Posted by Saki GT,Jun 3 2008, 04:26 PM
Also explains a lot. Would I be wrong if I said your mom is a bad driver too?
It sounds like she's scared of driving and bein over protective. Tell her that manual cars requirte you pay attention to your driving, so you're actually safer.
It sounds like she's scared of driving and bein over protective. Tell her that manual cars requirte you pay attention to your driving, so you're actually safer.
My mom told me I shouldn't be telling her what to do, and said that she's a "safer" driver , because I've only driven for one year and that she's driven longer then me. I ended up back talking to her and arguing, and that basically came off as disrespect in her words.
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just make it a point that you will pay for the car and take full responsibility for it, i got mine when i was 17 and have the whole thing paid off now, its easy to pay for a car when you dont pay rent. or just let her drive it once my mom didnt want me to have one eitther till she test drove it