since $25K is way, way beyond the budget of any new driver that doesn’t have a rich mummy and/or daddy, and I haven’t seen any car yet listed that could be insured by a young driver for less than the price of a small private island here in the UK, I put foreward my personal first-car plan;
A car that is small, has a super reliable Honda motor, has enough old stuff on the car to tinker on, is hard-ish to get replacement panels for and is a death machine - so they understand that driving sensibly is necessary or natural selection takes place. Oh yeah, and it has the same power-to-weight ratio of a Porsche…
The main criteria for a first car is that it should be survivable. The cooler the car is, the more likely a new driver is going to be a dickhead in it and wrap themselves around a pole.
Agreed - the budget is too high on this. It it a typo?
The correct answer is any UJM from the 70s or 80s for about 1k$. They’re cheap to purchase, cheap to fuel, cheap to insure, and cheap to fix. They’re slow. They don’t have a back seat for unapproved activities. And most important of all, they truly make the kid a better driver.
25 grand for a first car? The vast majority of 16/17 year olds are neither as industrious or as responsible as you were. The only safe bet is this. Granted its with a added zero but still. Side note, all three of my kids who are now orbiting 30 were responsible but managed 2 out of three wrecks. 1943 Buick HellCat
1969 Mustang Sportsroof, 351 V8.
21K and your buddies can roll around in town in style while you stay sober and drive them.
If I woke up tomorrow and I was a 16 year old about to get my license and had 25 grand for a first car, I’d want a late model Toyota Sienna. Think about it.
270 horsepower is enough to have fun with. You have seatbelts for eight people, meaning you can fit about thirty teenagers in it. And most importantly, you don’t…
The answer is always...
There is a little ambiguity in the story headline... but I interpret it as meaning best first car, under $25k. So first car is the operative, and under $25k is a condition of the operative.
I’ve done this route - and it was amazing! Yeah it’s mostly Canada, but has a good sampling of ‘murica. Except Minot, North Dakota. Which was terrifying. It should be renamed, Faces of Meth: the Town.
The Lincoln Highway.
The ND Miata, the last car to be reviewed by Top Gear as we knew it.
As if mechanical problems would affect Harley sales.
My cousin got arrested for being passed out in the passenger seat. The keys were inside the Bar. The cop wrote it up as a DUI after 10k in Lawyer fees he beat it. They tried to give him public intoxication after the lawyer proved that the cop was in the wrong. My sister got a DUI while on private land while driving a…
You had me at “Tugboat Mode”
I feel a lump near my throat just reading the ad.
#4 shows why Rossi > everyone else to ever ride in MotoGP