First car

[bstoner59]

My bad hahaha i was just assuming about the truck..now im worried it won't fit in my garage hahaha. But he's not comparing me to the kids in my neighborhood. Mainly my cousins and the adults around here. I live in Yorba Linda where most guys my age have trucks.

The Raptor will fit right in in the YL...take your pops to go drive one and that should be the end of it!!

 

[Mark Ducati]

Its cool and all, and back when I was 16 I sure as heck would have loved a Raptor...

BUT, I can say this at 45 years of age that you most likely do NOT have the driving skills to handle a vehicle like this. I would be willing to bet that you will get into a fender-bender within the first 18 months. Please call me out on the carpet at 18 months if this has not happened (regardless of what vehicle you get), I hope it doesn't, but the odds are it will.

I'm a dentist, I can buy my children (7 and 4 right now) any car they want when they're 16... know what I plan to buy them? An 8-10 year old Honda or Saab... no joke.

We had a kid one time spin out in the rain right into our front lawn because he was driving too fast for conditions... he spun 540 degrees and the tail gate slammed backwards into a telephone pole and broke the pole off! He tried driving off and I stopped him... "Why I gotta stop? I'm okay!" was his reply, I pointed to the telephone pole, told him I have his tag number and already called the sheriff... so, sheriff shows up, starts making a report THEN his dad comes.

Dad says... "This is a father's worst nightmare hearing your child has been in an auto accident... the boy just turned 16 and this truck was his birthday present".

At the time, the truck was a new F150 with an 8" lift kit and HUGE (don't know what size) tires... and an aftermarket exhaust.

What kind of parent gives a kid something that would potentially hurt them? Yes, you can get killed in any car... but a jacked up truck with a high center of gravity? Gee, do you think the kid really has the necessary driving skills to handle a top heavy vehicle like this? Aftermarket exhaust, do yo think this kid enjoys getting on the throttle? Hmmm.... Maybe daddy gave him a pistol for his 5th birthday too?

I used to be the deputy coroner for our county... I can tell you many stories of 16-17 year old kids that I've literally scraped off the pavement with a shovel... and then I poured four 2L bottles of Coca Cola (kept in the Coroner's Vehicle) on the pavement to dissolve their blood away.

I wish you no ill will and congratulate you on your first car whatever it is... but I tell you, most 16 year old kids do NOT have the skills necessary to handle a vehicle like this. I hope you're different and more mature than most.... most 16 year old boys can't resist showing off to their buddies and thinking about getting into the pants of Mary Jane sitting in the passenger seat. Any chick that's wants you simply because you have a cool ca... err... nevermind, you could care less, yeah I forgot what 16 was like... I was thinking about Mary Jane's ***** too.

When you do crash, please think of me and think... "damn, that SOB dentist Mark Ducati was right". Yes, I'm trying to make a point. Seriously, I do wish you well and drive safe.

 

[Madcowranch]

Its cool and all, and back when I was 16 I sure as heck would have loved a Raptor...

BUT, I can say this at 45 years of age that you most likely do NOT have the driving skills to handle a vehicle like this. I would be willing to bet that you will get into a fender-bender within the first 18 months. Please call me out on the carpet at 18 months if this has not happened (regardless of what vehicle you get), I hope it doesn't, but the odds are it will.

I'm a dentist, I can buy my children (7 and 4 right now) any car they want when they're 16... know what I plan to buy them? An 8-10 year old Honda or Saab... no joke.

We had a kid one time spin out in the rain right into our front lawn because he was driving too fast for conditions... he spun 540 degrees and the tail gate slammed backwards into a telephone pole and broke the pole off! He tried driving off and I stopped him... "Why I gotta stop? I'm okay!" was his reply, I pointed to the telephone pole, told him I have his tag number and already called the sheriff... so, sheriff shows up, starts making a report THEN his dad comes.

Dad says... "This is a father's worst nightmare hearing your child has been in an auto accident... the boy just turned 16 and this truck was his birthday present".

At the time, the truck was a new F150 with an 8" lift kit and HUGE (don't know what size) tires... and an aftermarket exhaust.

What kind of parent gives a kid something that would potentially hurt them? Yes, you can get killed in any car... but a jacked up truck with a high center of gravity? Gee, do you think the kid really has the necessary driving skills to handle a top heavy vehicle like this? Aftermarket exhaust, do yo think this kid enjoys getting on the throttle? Hmmm.... Maybe daddy gave him a pistol for his 5th birthday too?

I used to be the deputy coroner for our county... I can tell you many stories of 16-17 year old kids that I've literally scraped off the pavement with a shovel... and then I poured four 2L bottles of Coca Cola (kept in the Coroner's Vehicle) on the pavement to dissolve their blood away.
I wish you no ill will and congratulate you on your first car whatever it is... but I tell you, most 16 year old kids do NOT have the skills necessary to handle a vehicle like this. I hope you're different and more mature than most.

When you do crash, please think of me and think... "damn, that SOB dentist Mark Ducati was right". Yes, I'm trying to make a point. Seriously, I do wish you well and drive safe.

Damn that's some creepy ******-up shit.

I think the point you're trying to make is every teenage boy pushes the limits of their first car and usually end up crashing once or twice so get a POS that you can abuse those first few years of driving.

 

[whtrapta]

Good thing I was a driving instructor since I was 16!

 

[Aaron]

I do agree with Mark Ducati. When I was 16 I had an 89 Mazda 4x4 truck and I got into so much trouble in that underpowered little truck.

Within 2 months of having it I was speeding up a mountain pass in the winter, lost traction and hit a snow bank straight on launching the truck into some kind of crazy pirrouette kind of thing where it damn near stood on its tail gate and the back driver side tire, spun 90 degrees from the angle of impact and then came down on the two driver side tires before finally coming back down on all four.

When it was said and done, my buddies and I were scared shitless facing the opposite way we had been travelling. Luckily for us, nobody was hurt and my truck wasn't damaged because of the depth of the snowbank. it just packed and formed a sort of ramp that launched the front of my truck up into the air.

We got lucky because behind that snow bank was a ton of huge rocks and a nice solid hill. Had it been shallow, we'd probably all have been seriously injured or died. We could have also flipped completely over with similar results.

I had a few other close calls between that truck and my '86 F150 that had a I-6 in it. Both trucks were serverly underpowered, but I found a TON of ways to still get in over my head with them.

I know this is long, but the point of my stories is that a powerful and very capable truck like the Raptor is going to bite you hard if you don't respect what it can do.

You're fortunate that you're in a position to afford such a nice vehicle for your first car. If you have a good head on your shoulders and take your time learning about how your vehicle responds in all kinds of different situations and don't try to "show off" too much. You'll be fine and have a lot of fun with it.

 

[pirate air]

My first car was a Bronco that I had to get running before I could drive it. I still own the Bronco, Ironically it was the vehicle that brought me home from the hospital I was born at.

The Raptor is quite the first vehicle.... Don't wreck it!!

 

[A.I.I.Raciing]

I'm a dentist, I can buy my children (7 and 4 right now) any car they want when they're 16... .

We get it......................................You're a Dentist.


How many more times are you going to tell us?

 

[RPG]

I've been driving around the Family GL 450 now. And my dad finally told me that he's going to buy me a car this month or the next.

What i really want is an SVT Raptor.

So i was wondering if anybody could help me out with ways to convince him?

What he wants me to get is a BMW 335i or Mustang GT/CS

CAN ANYBODY HELP ME OUT?!?

Get a Raptor, the last thing Southern California needs is another dam 3series driving around.

 

[Raptor2010]

Its cool and all, and back when I was 16 I sure as heck would have loved a Raptor...

BUT, I can say this at 45 years of age that you most likely do NOT have the driving skills to handle a vehicle like this. I would be willing to bet that you will get into a fender-bender within the first 18 months. Please call me out on the carpet at 18 months if this has not happened (regardless of what vehicle you get), I hope it doesn't, but the odds are it will.

I'm a dentist, I can buy my children (7 and 4 right now) any car they want when they're 16... know what I plan to buy them? An 8-10 year old Honda or Saab... no joke.

We had a kid one time spin out in the rain right into our front lawn because he was driving too fast for conditions... he spun 540 degrees and the tail gate slammed backwards into a telephone pole and broke the pole off! He tried driving off and I stopped him... "Why I gotta stop? I'm okay!" was his reply, I pointed to the telephone pole, told him I have his tag number and already called the sheriff... so, sheriff shows up, starts making a report THEN his dad comes.

Dad says... "This is a father's worst nightmare hearing your child has been in an auto accident... the boy just turned 16 and this truck was his birthday present".

At the time, the truck was a new F150 with an 8" lift kit and HUGE (don't know what size) tires... and an aftermarket exhaust.

What kind of parent gives a kid something that would potentially hurt them? Yes, you can get killed in any car... but a jacked up truck with a high center of gravity? Gee, do you think the kid really has the necessary driving skills to handle a top heavy vehicle like this? Aftermarket exhaust, do yo think this kid enjoys getting on the throttle? Hmmm.... Maybe daddy gave him a pistol for his 5th birthday too?

I used to be the deputy coroner for our county... I can tell you many stories of 16-17 year old kids that I've literally scraped off the pavement with a shovel... and then I poured four 2L bottles of Coca Cola (kept in the Coroner's Vehicle) on the pavement to dissolve their blood away.

I wish you no ill will and congratulate you on your first car whatever it is... but I tell you, most 16 year old kids do NOT have the skills necessary to handle a vehicle like this. I hope you're different and more mature than most.... most 16 year old boys can't resist showing off to their buddies and thinking about getting into the pants of Mary Jane sitting in the passenger seat. Any chick that's wants you simply because you have a cool ca... err... nevermind, you could care less, yeah I forgot what 16 was like... I was thinking about Mary Jane's ***** too.

When you do crash, please think of me and think... "damn, that SOB dentist Mark Ducati was right". Yes, I'm trying to make a point. Seriously, I do wish you well and drive safe.

I do agree with you 100%. When I was 16 I wasn't aloud to drive. Parents said that's to young. I had to wait until I was 18 and could pay for my own insurance with a job. My first car was a cutlass Solon, black. Was beautiful and I kept it nice because I paid for it with hard work. I think you should work for your first car to really appreciate it. My kids bought their first cars. I may of cosigned for them but they are paying it. I'm 47 and I guess I'm old school but that's my 2 cents.

 

[bstoner59]

Let's all be realistic here...his dad is going to buy him a new regardless of what anyone on here says. All he wants to know is the best way to get the Raptor instead of the BMW. Everyone makes valid points but that doesn't mean PJ is going to go tell his dad he wants to give up the GL for a 15 year old beater because he wants to show how responsible he is and doesn't believe he is old enough for such a nice ride...even if he did I highly doubt his dad would do it...just sayin.