Until she tries to merge into heavy traffic and can’t accelerate fast enough, get hit from behind or side swipped and are seriously injured because you’re driving a tin can with no safety devices beyond seat belts. She can cruise around town a bit and go back and forth to highschool if it’s not far and 35mph the whole…

None of this makes me buy your argument. It just makes me question your judgment.

Do you realize they made 8 zillion of the because they were cheap not because they were safe?

Bingo. Beetles are funky but definitely not up to the challenge of taking a hit from an F-150

You’re getting a lot of hate here, but I’m with you. I want my kid in something with ABS and airbags.

There is so much wrong with people like you who justify not taking every reasonable precaution to protect their kid with phrases like “you can’t protect them from everything”. While that is true it does not mean you shouldn’t try to protect them from what you can.

I am not offering an opinion, I am defining the term as most people use it.

I’m with you, i love cars, but my daughter is driving a 2004 honda accord with 6 airbags, abs and crumple zones, no way would i put her in anything pre airbag. Yeah its cool on paper but it ain’t cool when you’re thinking about your kid getting in an offset collision because someone coming the other way was drunk or…

I'm just not dillusional. I'm a real person with a real job and a real family. I respect the difference between a fun car and a car you entrust your children to.

I hope you are never entrusted with children.

A 16yo girl or boy is given something of value for free.

In the USA safe means: “How well does it hold up to being hit by Canyonero doing 70mph”. The beetle is not safe by that measure.

You know what else will be at college? Supercharged Range Rovers. What happens when you get rear ended by one of those?

I wouldn't want my daughter in a car that's easy to work on, I would want her in something reliable and safe.

Roads in Mexico rarely have adequate drainage so even if it hadn’t rained for weeks there was likely mud or standing water near the road. That lack of drainage makes for interesting drives over mountain passes at 10 at night after driving 600 miles and being passed by semi’s who don’t seem to be bothered at all by…

The lack of apostrophes bother me more than the lowkey racism.

This has always amazed me, how can America still have no equivalent to the UK MOT test?

Your 69 912 might have a problem passing just about every modern car sold today.

like you do understand the original post was sarcastic right asshole? holy fucking god you’re a fucking right pedant

Ummm ... I think you mean Desert Sand Mica. #corrections