Kid gets Camaro SS for 16th bday

[Joey Link]

I sure wouldn't want to be this kid. My parents teaching me to work hard and earn what I have was the best gift they ever gave me.

[Raxe]

Not the Underarmour dude.

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[Be30mer]

How old are you?

Why do you ask?

[Fidhle007]

Does anyone know who those people are? I'm wondering because of all the underarmour hoodies. My best friend used to work for underarmour and the owner was a car guy I think...

[OldsCool]

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

[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.

[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?

[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...

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Rustyduktape]

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

[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.

[DatUtahGuy]

Transformers did it.

[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.