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Originally Posted by KevinH1990
I was going to give our daughter the 1994 Camry we drove when we brought her home from the hospital. It was a relatively rare manual transmission model and I enjoyed the experience of teaching her how to drive a car with a manual transmission. Unfortunately the car (with 250k on it) was becoming unreliable and it did not have side airbags or ABS. I decided the side airbags were important after one of her classmates was "T-boned" at an intersection breaking her jaw and losing teeth.
So I bought her a 2006 Civic EX - also with a manual transmission. She's at college now and other kids are always asking to borrow the car. As Randall points out, most of the kids in her age group cannot drive a stick. So it is easy to turn them down. As she puts it, "It's not me, it's you." Since it is my understanding that we would be liable if someone caused an accident while driving our car, that is one less thing to worry about.
It was nice to see that a 2010 Civic (same basic layout as the 2006) survived relatively well in an accident.
I had two of the original model of the Miata - a 90 and a 94. I had too many close calls with large trucks and decided that it was time to indulge my long-term goal of buying a Porsche with the added incentive of safety.
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It's GREAT to hear all is well with you and your kid's journeys.....................
