It shouldn't matter what you buy your kids, or what you let them
drive or wear if you're a good enough parent to teach them
proper behaviors, discipline, and mannerisms. Snobbery is the
combination of a lack of parental guidance (neglect), and
compensation with outlandish gifts and possessions.

My question to you is, regardless of self-confidence or lack
thereof, why handicap your child with a $2000 joke of a car that
only invites criticism, when you are fully capable of providing him
or her with a nice, decent, midrange, trouble-free, late-model car?
I'm not talking Benz here, just a brand new Honda or Ford. I
mean we are talking if you were very, very comfortably rich here,
not if you had to take out another mortgage on the house to
fund the down payment.

 

Exactly lex4- A decent daily driver car. no benz, etc..

Accords even kind of push it...LOL

 

mjames08 -- right on! buy them a rolling shell, then work with them to build an engine for the car. A great way to spend some quality father/son time. Tell stories about the great cars when you were a kid, that kinda stuff. Just giving free handouts is a great way to spoil a kid into self distruction.

Blood, sweat, and tears while building a car will make it mean more to a kid. Plus that would be insane bragging rights!
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Nice car
thanks, I built it.

hmmm