[TR] Teenager car

[Bob Danielson]

We used to love Subarus before they moved up into the $30K price
range...........whatever happened to their slogan, "Inexpensive and built to
stay that way". Anyway.....we've had 4 AWD wagons over the years but none in
the past 10 years. 

The teenager story.........my son was 16 (now he's 38!) and driving one of
the Subaru wagons, and for some un-Godly reason he decides to let his
unlicensed buddy drive the car around the block........I'm sure there was a
girl involved somehow. So his buddy comes to a stop sign, confuses the brake
and the go pedal and shoots through the intersection tee-boning a parked
60's vintage Camaro that was a restoration project! Luckily in all of years
of driving that was the only accident where he was at fault, and technically
he wasn't considered at fault by the insurance company. He was considered
stupid.........very stupid.......but not at fault.


Bob Danielson
1975 TR6 CF38503U
Running w/ Throttle Body Injection
Toyota 5 Speed & Nissan LSD
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org 

-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of John Cohen
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:27 AM
To: terryrs at comcast.net; triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] Teenager car

Terry,

I am a big proponent for the Subaru as the best teen car, especially where
we live.  It is super reliable, gets in the mid 20s for  gas mileage  and
the AWD can't be beat in the snow and ice. It is not unusual to see them
running around with 175k on them.  I bought a 97 outback wagon for my 16 yo
daughter and she loves it.  It has 134 k and we have put nothing into it
other than routine maintenance.  I would recommend any car you buy for a
teen have ABS and front airbags for safety because they will make mistakes.
Don't spend a lot because they will hit things.  Not a matter of if, it's a
matter of when.  I have been thru this twice so I speak from experience.

 

John Cohen

Rutland VT

76 TR6

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