As poorly as most teenagers drive, I’d want something that wouldn’t get flattened by a semi for my kid. 

In the US is there any good reason to get a car this small?
They don’t really get better gas mileage than a somewhat larger hatch.
Not many places have parking problems these things solve.
Most of our streets are super wide.
This is a solution for a problem we don’t have. 

I’d take the IQ over a Smart car, but who would willingly buy either?

Gotta hit those fuel economy standards somehow!

Welcome to Jalopnik.

Good job once again Raph. Writing an article with zero research and then updating it with the correction hardly 10 minutes later.

Very popular in Tijuana too by the way.

I think you mean hellaflush

I hope I don’t sound like a fun-hating moron, but I think a lot of automotive-related clothing looks bad. Every time I see a dude wearing Puma Ferrari or Mercedes apparel I immediately think “well, there goes a douche.”

Blipshift makes some classy, graphic car T-shirts. I have 5 or 6.

They should have replaced it with a bus pass 

The right answer is to give your kid whatever you’ve been driving, and get yourself something new. My 5-year-old already knows he’ll be driving a 21-year-old Tacoma one day and Dad will be driving something fast again. ;-)

No. A teenager does not need a RHD car.

As a biased former G35 owner, the Infiniti is a great choice. And as someone else suggested, the Acura TSX is an equally good choice.

Seriously? Four equally sensible and viable options?

So $3.3M for 25 years is $82.5M. That’s about half of the $150M-$175M cost to fix it up. That’s a pretty poor return on investment right there.

Cars aren’t forbidden just because you can’t afford them. Otherwise just add every car over 200k to the list. Dumb.

You’re doing it wrong - Van FuckLife is way better.

if the location is remote enough, feel free to poop outside the box.

I’m so sorry that the owners make you create these slideshows.  None of the readers are clamoring for them.