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I can understand why Consumer Reports excluded vehicles with 0-60 times over 11 seconds, but I think there’s something to be said for giving a new, young driver an eight to ten year old domestic pick-up truck. They don’t accommodate many passengers and they’re crash-worthy. Their visibility is generally superior to most passenger cars both in terms of the driver being able to see and in terms of being seen by other drivers. The only downside is the fuel economy.
Though a well-maintained F-150, Chevy 1500, or Ram 1500 should all do mid to high teens MPG if driven carefully. Furthermore, if you make the kid responsible for his own gasoline money, you’ll have a nice limiting factor to discourage unnecessary driving during his formative years as a vehicle operator. Posted at 9:02PM on Oct 1st 2007 by Don Martin 2. i am a used car dealer with two sons of driving age. i really do know what i am talking about. do not give in to your kid and buy the wrong car.
stick to your guns and get a 4 cylinder ranger pickup with a manual transmission. tuff vehicle that is slow, underpowered, very economical and cheap, and when, not if they have a wreck, there is not a car full of kids to sue you. since it has a manual transmission, the kid actually has to pay attention to the driving process. He cant be playing with the radio, talking on his cell or drinking his starbucks coffee because he has to shift.