9/9/2016 2:07 AM
Edited Date/Time: 9/9/2016 2:20 AM
Buy a lada man
if you don't have a job.. don't sell your soul for an expensive toy car. buy something affordable, and slow car fast it.
Slow car fast > fast car slow
My first car cost me $500. Needed love but had a strong engine. Dumped about 500 over a span of a year while driving it junkyard finding parts and shoving them in. Still have it sitting in my driveway today, fun as shit to drive since the day I got it.
Fast car fast is not exactly pro-choice for a teenagers first car lol. Slow car fast and hone your driving skills. 2 Cars ago I had a 5 speed very lightly modded '99 Corolla (I've owned 3 corolla's) and I could beat my buddies WRX on a windy road or dirt backroads just because I practiced driving more. Same with bikes, they don't make the rider.
Hondas are generic as hell. For a reason albeit. I'd get something semi obscure, ready for a canadian winter, and CHEAP. Idk about Canada but here you can get a car like this http://york.craigslist.org/ctd/5758793495.html for $1,100 if you dig enough. That's from a dealer too. Not a sick ass first car for a teenager but it's 5 speed so fuck it. Any manual is fun to drive really. Not every automatic is though. If you study and dig you can get yourself a proper whip. Spend that initial sum on something as reliable and practical as possible with as much fun factor you can squeeze in and look at it as a platform to build on. Or just have a good ass time and drive it into the fucking ground fixing as little as possible while you save for a proper racecar.
Something 90's/early 2000's, 4/6 cyl, fwd, and with a 5 speed. 90's cars are fucking riots. Not death hitting corners fast usually, cheap to fix or turn into junkyard dogs, and never too fast.. but they always feel faster. I have a '93 pontiac convertible and just was driving a 2009 corolla. The corolla was so much more contained even at high speeds, where the pontiac... you fucking know when you're going 80, and it's eager to do so. Just get a slow cheap to maintain econobox with a 5 speed and you'll have plenty of fun. The feeling that it's paid off and if you fuck shit up on it you aren't out a huge chunk of cash will make up for the 50 less hp lol. In the US you can get a 90's econobox with under 100k miles for $2,500 or less, or even a nice early 2000s car. I prefer 90's domestic cars because junkyards are loaded with parts and they're easy to install, whereas newer cars you need more to do less in my experiences. Wrenching is also fun and a learning experience. May not be the coolest in the High School parking lot but fuck the police man. I drove a beater with a torn up soft top to school all winter in 2013, fuck the police and the kids with rich parents in the brand new BMW suv's.. I could do burnouts AND rip shitties without my parents yelling at me.
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