My little sister turns 16 in June and I'm gonna get her a car. I taught her how to drive and I figure if she can push the bigbody, she can drive anything. She wants a Grand Prix, so I figured I'd get that, unless anyone has any better suggestions. Is that a good car to buy a new driver?? I'm not getting it new, probably a 2004-2005 model, I don't want anything older than that because a) I don't want car problems for her and b) I can get really low rates on the financing if the car is less than 4 years old/<50K miles. Should I even be considering financing, I want to finance so I can build up her credit for the future? There's chance that i'll just buy her a cash car, in that case, what's a good car for a girl that age. I would ask her and take her if I go that route, but it's supposed to be a surprise.
Car question, need some input...
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a civic. you can buy a decent one even if you went as far back as 98-00 for a good price cash. and it will run forever.
My best friend has a 2006 Grand Prix. She had major issues last year with the alternator/some kind of ball bearing I think, and had to replace the container holding the steering wheel fluid because it was making this God-awful noise in the winter time. All this in the first year of her owning the car. However, now that those things are fixed, it runs well and has been really reliable.
As for the other question, if you can buy it with cash, just do it. She has plenty of time to build up her credit, and there are many other ways to do it.
As for the other question, if you can buy it with cash, just do it. She has plenty of time to build up her credit, and there are many other ways to do it.
Either a Civic or even that new Fit they have...you can get it for under $20,000 and they are good on gas...
See, I woulda bought the cash car regardless, but I think she deserves it, she's had a big loss earlier this year and she's still toughed through it. And she's 8th out of 1800 kids in her class, so she's earned it. As for your friend's issues, I was thinking Carmax which is pretty thorough with used cars, we had no issues when we picked out my other little sister's car.
Buy something effiicient on gas. You know she gonna be tryin to roll everywhere since she getting a car. And teach her basic stuff like changing a tire, checking your oil, and things like that. Everybody that has a car should know those things
Like Jo and Da Don said go with the Civic.
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1. I don't think ppl should buy teenagers their cars for them.. They should work and make some kind of contribution to it.. gives them the sense to appreciate it...
2. I don't think teenagers should have NEW cars... they just aren't the best drivers.. so if its 2008, she should get like a 2000ish car...
3. HELL NO to financing.. IDK where u live, but insurance is expensive as hell in NJ and on a teen driver is even worse ...
4. Just get her something good and reliable. My first car, when I turned 17, was a 92 Eagle Premier, had I taken care of it, it would have lasted me longer than the year it did. But I was a typical 17 year old girl and didn't get ANY maintenance done on it, not one oil change and it burned out on me...
2. I don't think teenagers should have NEW cars... they just aren't the best drivers.. so if its 2008, she should get like a 2000ish car...
3. HELL NO to financing.. IDK where u live, but insurance is expensive as hell in NJ and on a teen driver is even worse ...
4. Just get her something good and reliable. My first car, when I turned 17, was a 92 Eagle Premier, had I taken care of it, it would have lasted me longer than the year it did. But I was a typical 17 year old girl and didn't get ANY maintenance done on it, not one oil change and it burned out on me...
co-sign. Keep the oil changed and it's on.
Buy the car with cash, your financing the car will not help her credit at all, unless you finagle some way that she is "buying" the car on credit (what dealer would finance a 17 year old anyway?) and you make the payments for her.
Go with the Civic or other high-quality, reliable car. Not only it will last her longer if maintained, but with the way the price of gas is headed, you better hope she has enough money to even drive the car around the block.
Go with the Civic or other high-quality, reliable car. Not only it will last her longer if maintained, but with the way the price of gas is headed, you better hope she has enough money to even drive the car around the block.
It actually does.
Toyota Camry, conservative and good mileage...