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Originally Posted by dghii
I'm a little biased. My gainfully employed 24 year old Son purchased a white FR-S last spring as his first new car. He purchased it with the proper 6 speed and not much else in the way of options. The car listed for $25.5 and he (with my help) was able to negotiate the car down to $23.5K despite the dealers selling the cars for list +.
I'm not a new car kind of guy as they all seem so overpriced. After driving the FR-S and giving it a good once over, I came away truly feeling like the car offered considerable bang for the buck. Go The car was much nicer than I expected and looks and feels like a proper sports car and not a poser.
So far, the car has been bullet proof. My son has AX'ed it twice and has faired quite well despite the stock tires. My son was well aware of the Prius tires before purchasing the car. Since so many owners remove the OEM tires, he's picked up another set of OEM tires (w/under 2K miles) for
$100. The tires are fine for his daily 25 mile freeway commute and has allows a budget for track tires if he continues to AX!
My son loves my Boxster, having driven it during visits home during school breaks, but is not a true ragtop kind of person. Although he could have purchased a used Boxster, and is mechanically able to work on the car himself, a 10 year old used Boxter it would have carried much higher interest and insurance rates. He would have always had the unknown costs of potential repairs, not to mention that as his only car, he needed something he could count on, day in, day out.
Would I buy an FR-S? No, but simply because the top doesn't go down, not because its not a proper sports car.
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it is the perfect autox and daily driver. The Miata is great but too small for highways full of SUVs and giant pick ups. The Boxster/Cayman is obviously a great too but an out-of-warranty Porsche is not for young budgets because even if you can do your own repairs the parts are still very expensive. I really wish Chevrolet made a car like the FRS with some C7 styling with250'ish HP. Like a mini C7 at an excellent entry price.
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Originally Posted by steved0x
Out of mine, my 19 year old finally got his license when he was 18; my other 18 has a learner's permit but no license, and my girlfriend's 17 year old son does not even have a learner's permit, and his two cousins that are both over 18 have only 1 learner's permit between them. I remember my dad driving me to the DMV to take my test on my 16th birthday and then I drove myself to school. It is a different world today...
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Millenials grew up spending way too much time indoors and in front of computer monitors, iphones, ipads, etc.
It's like 90% of their existence isn't even in the real world, it's on a website or FB page that doesn't require them to even leave the house! It also seems like my friends with kids those ages didn't really do the family outing thing (to a place other than the Apple store) every weekend like previous generations.