16 Year Old Driver???

[Damkid]

I wouldnt give a 16 year old a festiva to drive. Teens are careless and the festiva could get damaged. Give them something else to tear up.

i hate to say it but this happened to me i wrecked an 88 L 3 weeks after i got my license

[festivaWES]

My daughter can have a festiva to drive for her first car if she wants it.

[ruppenduro]

If my son wanted a Festiva I would let him. You can get hurt driving anything. I wouldnt give him mine! I would find a stock one and tell him to leave it that way.

you can get hurt driving anything, but just think about a head on 55mph impact in a festiva. i would much rather have that impact in a larger car like a subaru or possibly a full framed vehicle. new drivers get cocky sometimes, and that sometimes results in an accident.

[neanderpaul]

a safe, cheap first car? 96-04 Taurus. Does very well in all crashes, for sale everywhere, dirt cheap to replace.

X2 - safe, cheap, and doesn't hurt anybody's feelings if it gets totaled.

[hofficergrover]

i agree with ruppenduro......but if you give a kid a festiva that is old and has alot of miles so the motor is pretty wipped their aint no power to do nuthin with then you have no worries they wont try nuthin. i am 19 and i had a blazer that i hit a tree with 2 weeks after i got my license my blazer had the 4.3 and i advanced the timing to get a little power to play with haha but i would so give my kid a festiva. i know one kid that got hit in a festiva at 45mph in the side by a full size truck and fliped it on its side and the car was drive able and was not totaled.

[shorestiva]

My festy was my first car. I hit a deer within a year of getting my license then a year or 2 later I slid off a snowy road into a tree. Thats the worse Ive done though.

[floydiancomplex]

Give them the Festiva, we are saving too many lives these days anyway. Just think of it as passive eugenics, the kid who eats too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of their own.

On another note, I would rather die in an at fault accident than kill someone else. I could live with the guilt but not the monetary judgement than would be imposed. Just a thougnt.

[jglutz]

I wouldnt give a 16 year old a festiva to drive. Teens are careless and the festiva could get damaged. Give them something else to tear up.

Well put. When our kids had their learner's permit I would not take them for their license test until they master the stick in the my festiva. Our son started with an '87 Chevrolet Cavalier and our daughter started with an '96 Ford Escort.

Since we have given our son a '07 Focus and our daughter an '08 Jeep....I know drive an '87 Cavalier....'96 Escort and my beloved '92 Festiva.

[Tim]

An old RWD Volvo would be a great first car. They're cheap, abundant, reliable, built like tanks, and ridiculously simple to work on. Plus they're slow and boring looking, so that kills any desire to drive recklessly.

-Tim

[Biglay5150]

you can get hurt driving anything, but just think about a head on 55mph impact in a festiva. i would much rather have that impact in a larger car like a subaru or possibly a full framed vehicle. new drivers get cocky sometimes, and that sometimes results in an accident.

Well then you might as well get them a big SUV that way they just kill the other driver in a head on. If my kid wanted a Festy it would be stock,slow and I would teach them right from wrong in the first place. Go rent Faces of Death and make them watch it a few times than they might think twice about acting cocky behind the wheel. My kids are 4 and 6 and I take them to the j/y and toe yards all the time thay already know what bad accidents look like.

[mattswabb]

My daughter had a festiva for her 1st car. She was 17 when she started driving. I worried a bit but I knew I taught her well.

[hotfordcat]

Best bet, 1963 Chrysler Imperial. You couldn't dent that thing with a Mack Truck. LOL Find your teen a safe car, check crash test results, and no CELL PHONE use while driving. I love my Festys, but it would fold up like an egg carton in a 35mph crash.

[Renr002]

My daughter had a festiva for her 1st car. She was 17 when she started driving. I worried a bit but I knew I taught her well.

Well said, My daughter is 7 and she already wants her festy!!!

[shawnw]

I think a bone stock Festiva would make a great first car. Simple, cheap to run, cheap to work on, easy to park decent cargo room with the back seat down, and generally slow enough to limit the crazy speeds.

[Ogrekhan]

It depends on the kid. My little brother who is 14 atm learned to drive in my festy at the family farm. Hes already a festy addict and talks about them with reverance. His first car will be a festy and I will worry about him driving, but not because hes in a festiva. My first car was a 79 honda civic with a beefed up motor I bought from some good-ol-boys who thought it would be a great sleeper car. It got me out of more trouble then it ever got me into and the mileage allowed a teen with few funds to enjoy life more.