Very practical.  It even allows them, if their daily driving is quite modest, to build up a bit of range for a little more freedom on weekends.  Not a lot, but some.

Whatever the kid can afford. Mow lawns, deliver papers, whatever - I’m not buying you a car outright, kid. You’re going in at least halfsies on this thing. If I buy the whole thing, you ask me every single time you want to take it somewhere. If you want to have a say, you better pony up at least half.

Used Nissan Leaf:

“Its a stick, so no texting and driving”

A stick definitely doesn’t stop people from texting.

You want to insure a teenager on a new car? And have to deal with incidental damage and misuse by said teenager?

Whatever it is, needs to be cheap, slow, safe, FWD, and have few seats (you really don’t want a new driver taking more lives into his/her hands than absolutely necessary).

When people don’t understand anything from a certain time period - it’s always good to look a little further back to compare.

That whole “if you have to ask, you weren’t there”, thing definitely applies to the Cutlass. They were big, soft (except for the 442, which was fucking awesome...the day I sold that thing...sigh), comfortable cars that got you where you were going and may have gotten you laid once you got there.

Price looks steep enough to be ND territory.

TOO common and TOO expensive for what it is. Nice survivor, but not much else to say about that. It’s just an old car and not collectable, so what do you do with it?

And it’s tactical.

Design wise, I think Hyundai comes out on top.

I would’ve never have guessed Tarantino had mommy issues...said no one, ever.

I bet you’re fun at parties. 

The worst part of auto enthusiast sites’ commentary is the groupthink, especially the idea that everyone else enjoys cars in the same way the commenter does.

Still better than a Solara.

They just started making deliveries in the US in March 2021. Give it some time...

I of all people should be drawn to this like a moth to a flame. Our drivers ed cars were Fairmont sedans. My parents had a Jalopnik special root beer brown manual trans wagon when I got my permit. A ‘79 Zephyr coupe with a stick (granted mine was a 2.3L Pinto-powered one) was my first car. My second car was a ‘79…

I still want one for the laughs!