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Originally Posted by Kuan
Friend of mine bought his daughter a car for her 16th birthday. A brand new Mazda 3. She didn't like it, said she wanted a BMW. So he traded it in and wrote a check for a brand new BMW.
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I know LOTS of stories like that...including a single mom I lived next to about a decade ago who collected enough change to get her son a very nice used Buick Riviera...only to hear him complain that he would have preferred an import like a Camry instead!
We live among folks who CAN afford to plunk down the $$$ to buy their brats whatever they want...which is frustrating for those of us who cannot, since the kids still expect it! So my daughter saw all of this "90210" opulence and assumed that we would match in kind when she turned 16 (said she didn't want much, just a new C-Class would do
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I never felt that ANY teen's first car should be a new one...after all, what do you look forward to later in life?