Kid gets Camaro SS for 16th bday

[JasonC]

He's more likely get over his head in the Camaro. Remember the kid last year who lost it in the M5 his parents apparently gave him? I'm sure he thought he was a good driver, and his parents probably thought he was a responsible kid.

Lets lump one group of people together. Cause one person did it, that means all others will end up same. I got to agree with Raxe,

Sounds like a lot of jealous people in this thread. What gave you the impression he's a douchebag? Or that his parents are terrible? They all seemed very polite and down to earth.

[Holland]

Even if the kid is responsible it's not driving like an idiot, it's lack of driving experience. It's much better to get a few nicks and dings in a beater then a nice shiny new car. It happens to 90 percent of us at that age. If he were to get that car after driving a couple of years he would have a much better chance of taking care of it. Of course he does have loaded parents who would fix it no problem, but assuming he has to pay for maintenance. Those cars have the worse visibility as well.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I'm only speaking from what I know myself at 16 y/o.

[Dave McLaren]

Lets lump one group of people together. Cause one person did it, that means all others will end up same. I got to agree with Raxe,

I didn't mean that I expect the same outcome; I didn't get markseven's point so I used the M5 kid as a recent example that may parallel the Camaro kid's situation.

Sure, when I was 16, I would have loved to have a car of equivalent coolness for the day, but I wasn't hurting by any stretch. I did get a hand-me-down Fiat Spider that was really nice, and I flogged the crap out of it. It broke enough, or actually I broke it enough, that my parents thought it was junk so they got me a Rabbit GTI. That was a pretty cool car in the day, but it was fairly benign with just 90 hp and 0-60 in 10 sec.

My son is 10 now, and I'm sure we'll get him some kind of nice car, likely used, when he's 16. I won't let him have something with crazy power, though. Maybe I'm splitting hairs but I think something like the Camaro SS or M5 invite the kid to show off, with the likelihood of a bad outcome greatly magnified at that level of performance.

[JasonC]

I didn't mean that I expect the same outcome; I didn't get markseven's point so I used the M5 kid as a recent example that may parallel the Camaro kid's situation.

Sure, when I was 16, I would have loved to have a car of equivalent coolness for the day, but I wasn't hurting by any stretch. I did get a hand-me-down Fiat Spider that was really nice, and I flogged the crap out of it. It broke enough, or actually I broke it enough, that my parents thought it was junk so they got me a Rabbit GTI. That was a pretty cool car in the day, but it was fairly benign with just 90 hp and 0-60 in 10 sec.

My son is 10 now, and I'm sure we'll get him some kind of nice car, likely used, when he's 16. I won't let him have something with crazy power, though. Maybe I'm splitting hairs but I think something like the Camaro SS or M5 invite the kid to show off, with the likelihood of a bad outcome greatly magnified at that level of performance.

Ok, i see your point that you was trying to get to markseven.

I guess i'm just seeing this different. Cause i grew up with muscle cars and have had freinds and knew others with muscle cars as first cars that respected the car, and not to get carried away with them.

[DatUtahGuy]

Transformers did it.

[Be30mer]

Good kid, but he is spoiled out of his mind. He is never going to learn how to earn something if his parents keep throwing things at him. Sometimes kids need a little tough love, its what builds character.

[Rustyduktape]

90% of you people are way too uptight, some kid got a camaro for his birthday, big fucking deal.

[regnu]

Wealth envy is a bitch ain't it?

I have seen way more news stories and real life examples of 16yr olds wrecking low horsepower hand me down self bought cars than brand new high horse power cars.

If I have the kind of money that kids family has I would gladly buy my 16 yr old a new car of their dreams.

[Ryan Stewart]

Must hate their kid... cause hes gonna kill himself in that one

Yep, I would buy my kid a car but not a RWD hipo car.

[Jand3rson]

Wealth envy is a bitch ain't it?

...If I have the kind of money that kids family has I would gladly buy my 16 yr old a new car of their dreams.

Exactly. This thread is chock-full of green with envy goodness.

[ck_taft325is]

Here's the stupid thing about life. If you don't work your ass off for it, you'll end up not really loving it. Sure - We'd all LOVE to get handed our dream car tomorrow - you know, just for being the kick ass person we think of ourselves to be - of course we already deserve it....:)

But if it's just handed to you, you'd never appreciate it in the same way, and most people in a few weeks, wouldn't even be excited about it.

But man, you work your ass off for something - you'll love it, take care of it, baby it. And in the end, be happier.

Life's kinda fucked up that way. Who's with me on that one?

That's all I thought when I read this entire thread. A lot of crapping on someone else getting a fabulous gift and lumping him in with every bone head who thinks at 16 years old they can drift like the pro's. While I was not entirely a "safe" driver at 16 and did my very fair share of stupid things, I had to work to buy my first car and maintain/get it running. I respected it enough that when I got that stupid itch resounding somewhere in my crotch region to prove I can drive like a pro, I thought twice. IF I wreck it, I'm out a car I worked xyz time, busting my ass humping concrete bags and lumber and all the time spent getting the damn thing to run semi-reliable.

By the same token, if someone handed me (at the time) my drive car and said, "It's all yours" I'd probably take fine care of it simply because it was shiny and got looks. Then again, inexperience with that much raw horse power is a bit sketchy. There's a lot of safety crap on cars now days that'll help him keep it on the road where as my first car barely had seat belts or windshield wipers that functioned...

[Danny]

Good kid, but he is spoiled out of his mind. He is never going to learn how to earn something if his parents keep throwing things at him. Sometimes kids need a little tough love, its what builds character.

How old are you?

[Ryan Stewart]

Wealth envy is a bitch ain't it?

I have seen way more news stories and real life examples of 16yr olds wrecking low horsepower hand me down self bought cars than brand new high horse power cars.

If I have the kind of money that kids family has I would gladly buy my 16 yr old a new car of their dreams.

That is because there are considerably more kids rolling around in hand-me-down Civics than kids getting a new V8 for their 16th birthday.

I went to high school in an area with money and kids were killed usually racing, and not racing in shitty Hondas because they never get going fast enough to kill someone.

[OldsCool]

great gift... maybe not for a 16yr old kid but still a great gift IMO