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Thank you all for your replies.
This is just the beginning of my journey. I’ve recently started researching and trying to figure out the budget.
I used to buy my cars, but now I’m leasing. My older child inherited my old car when I got a new one.
These days, things seem a bit different, or perhaps it’s just me growing older. It feels like used cars have become much more expensive, not to mention the costs of repairs and maintenance, along with the hassle of selling the car.
A few other thoughts: We don’t have a preference for a specific car. We won’t need a car after our child goes to college, so we probably only need it for up to 24 months.
I was considering Jeep Wranglers (any model, as long as the price is reasonable) for a 24-month lease. They are relatively rugged and short-term options. But it’s on a higher side.
I’ve noticed that most of the good lease deals are for 36 months. Japanese cars are always a good option, but if I were to buy a new one, it might be challenging to sell it after 2 years.
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Please don’t do that, for the sake of your teen and other drivers on the road.
How so?
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Buy any iihs tsp+ sedan. New or used.
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Do not buy them suvs. The driver cage is never as secure in a rollover
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I think driver’s assist safety functions would be very helpful for new drivers. Those aren’t standard on Wranglers. For me, it would be safety first, but within confines of a reasonable budget. My kids are getting a leased car, not because I’m doing them a favor, but because I don’t want to be their Uber driver. They’re going to be responsible for driving themselves to and from school and practice. I live in San Diego county where they don’t have school buses. I told them that they’re not getting anything cool; but it will be safe. If they want something cool, they can get a job and buy it themselves.
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A 24 Volvo XC40 on 24 months is a much better car.
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My kid just finished the classroom part of driver’s ed but there’s a wait to get behind the wheel before he can get his level 1 permit.
He’s not a car person at all and doesn’t really care from what I can tell. I’ll definitely get him a new car when he can drive to school (so he has all the newest safety features) but I go back and forth between getting something like an Accord/CR-V/Camry/Rav4, some vault-like Volvo, or leasing something like an ID4 or Ioniq 5 (which I had).
Fortunately I have time to figure it out. The only problem is unless he learns on my wife’s Odyssey, the options I have to teach him are in an iX or a G63 
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Not into cars = Don’t get a new car. A couple of years old CPO should be fine since it will probably get dinged up.
Latest safety features - These go by generation (or mid-cycle updates), not model year. Depending on the car, a five or six year old one may have the exact same safety features as a brand new one. Again, skip a new one.
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How did you come up with this? 99% kids now not “into cars”. They are into their phones.
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If a kid is into cars, like I was, then having a new one might work as they will take care of it, wash and wax it, park it carefully, etc. Basically, appreciate it. If a new driver doesn’t care about cars, I would just buy a used one. I addressed the safety features as well in my post, as those are important.
Came here to say that, many cars a few years old have a sleuth of safety feature, just sold my one year old 330e a teenager won’t get her hands on it, looking at Mazda3 sedan which 2023 seems to be down to invoice or close to it.
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Pro tip, find a car that has hub caps to avoid the pain of curb rashes
New driver should not use acc/lane centering/bsm. Any car with emergency braking is fine.
Just find a cheap lease on a safe car with the newest safety features (BSM, AEB, and rearview camera). With a lease, you don’t have to worry about diminished value if they get into an accident.
If they do, then they don’t want “old” cars.
Kids also go by what’s in their school’s parking lot.
That’s a great point about diminished value.
I don’t like automated driving features so I’m not going to even open the door for my kid to use them. Surround view will be important. Fortunately they won’t need to parallel park anywhere.
I think I’ll end up leasing something because the mileage needs will be low and after it gets dinged up in a few years send it back in. Repeat with the next kid.
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I use drive assist features as much as possible, but my wife hates them. She complains that it beeps at all the time when she drives in the bike lane. Told her to not drive in the bike lane, and she says that everyone else does. They took all these two lane roads and added a bike lane so all the lanes are narrower. If you have and use lka, it actually works out nicely, but a lot of cars can’t stay in their lane.
We’ll teach our kids to drive with and without the assist features
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I know what he’s saying. Our kids will be using their cars for school and practice. They won’t be driving anywhere that requires parallel parking. It won’t be like when we grew up where we drove wherever we wanted.
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