Great first car for a teen!

[BookstoreEscapee]

Buy now!

[flybye023]

I LOVE it! I agree with the poster who said they wished they had a kid so that they could buy the car for him. I got my license in '91. My first car was a late '70s Opel that you had to be really careful going over bumps or you'd pull the fuel line off. Meant that I couldn't drive very fast--plus, we lived on gravel roads so you couldn't drive more than 40-45 anyway.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

That's cool.

Of course, I had a stepdad who wanted to buy me a 1949 Hudson, but for some reason Mom wouldn't go along with it.

But then, I do like old cars (as long as they're in good shape aesthetically) and that probably would have been kinda cool.

[protege]

The first car I had...was an '87 Ford Tempo. Just about everything used to describe the Focus...could have been used to describe my Tempo as well. That thing had a top speed of about 70mph, four doors, and could never be used to "pick up chicks"

[tropicsgoddess]

My kid sis (when we were teens) used to ask our dad when he would get her a car and he would always say, soon and it would be either a Yugo or a Geo Metro.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

That thing had a top speed of about 70mph, four doors, and could never be used to "pick up chicks"

And that was probably what your parents had in mind . . . they weren't ready to be grandparents yet.

[BookstoreEscapee]

My brother got a car for his 17th birthday.

It was a Penny Racer.