Ain't it great when kids pit one parent against the other?



Asian kids -- best trick is to promise you'll go to university and become a doctor. When you're there and want the next fancy car, threaten to quit if you don't get it.
Waa, waa, waaaa!!!

 

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!

 

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.

 

LOL, and he should probably show those pictures to his dad.

What's a kid to think when his parents can't provide consistent direction?

 

 

^ I am guessing the Op is asian. Well for Asian the family thing is kind of different, it is considered to be very disrespectful if you move out of the house just because you disagree with an issue, unless your parents throw you out of the house for disgracing the family or something.

My Dad taught me how to drive, with a manual transmission b/c back in those days in my ccuntry automatic transmission cars were rare, everyone drove manual. The first year in high school I get to drive the family car Toyota Kijang (in Asia) sometimes. I was sharing my sister's car (toyota rav 4) when i came to the U.S. b/c at the time my parents see no need to get an additional car in the family. Sharing car is not that bad since I am not that outgoing.

Afterwards I was going to some dealer with my friend to test drive the EVO, for some reason my dad tagged along and it lead to me buying a car. My mother hated the evo, her main concern is that it is not safe, speeding etc. long story after they agreed to get me a car, i couldn't find a dealership that isn't shady for the evo, and there isn't any grey color MR left. So I decided to look at other cars, a few test drive of my friend's Z and then I went to Honda dealer. Guess what my mom saw it she loved it, I test drove it I loved it, and there it goes.


Moral: I wanted an Evo bad, but ended up with S2000 no regrets. You might want to consider 2nd, 3rd option when car shopping. Best of luck

 

This is just stupid.... why dont you buy your own damn car and that would solve this entire problem.

 

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.

 

I completly agree. I learned how to drive stick on a beater '89 subaru that if left in neutral wouldn't stay idle unless you were tapping the gas. learning to drive on a stick is great b/c then you can drive anything, it makes you a better driver.

as for learning on a newer car... I'd recommend getting a beater stick to learn on. my friend learned on a new hyundia accent his parents bought him when he was 16, he killed the clutch at about 6,000 miles. unless you wanna kill the clutch on the s if you get it, find another car to learn on.

and as for the car in general, as long as you have respect for it, and don't push it, you should be fine.

good luck!

 

No i completely agree with the listen to your parents deal. I currently live my parents, and i really want a motorcycle, if i ever brought one home my dad would disconnect me instantly from everything he helps me out with. like school and i would have to move out immediatly. But this argument this person posts is that his mom doesnt like it and he isent even paying for all of it. I say get a car you can afford and end this nonsence.