any opinions?
2007-01-19 07:22:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Pontiac
YES YES YES.....
If your parents can afford it and the Insurance???? YES
OR get a Pontiac G5 with a SuperCharger for your 1st car and if you can Handle it. Step up to the solstice gxp in 2 years or for your senior Year...
ZZZZZOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM.....
2007-01-19 14:01:07 · answer #1 · answered by Spinner...428 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We scraped up the remains of a 16 year old kid a few months ago - the driver was going WAY too fast in his dad's 5.0 Mustang and didn't have the experience to: A) know he was going too fast, and B) save the car when it went into a skid.
I know the Solstice is a sweet looker, but no way should any new driver have a car with that much power to weight. Too much temptation, and it is so easy to get in over your head very quickly.
BTW, this probably sounds like wimpy advice, but I just bought a 400 hp GTO, and am concerned my 17 yr old will take it for an unnanounced 'test drive'.
I know a 16 year old typically won't listen to advice from someone my age, but please try to hear me. It's too much car.
2007-01-20 00:22:54 · answer #2 · answered by InjunRAIV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO NO NO that car is a toy, not a real daily driver. Besides a car aint cool if you can only give your friends a ride on at a time.
If you really want something like that check out the new Chryler Sebring. But Ill tell you what....I had a VW Cabriolet, it was great, good learner car, great gas mileage, and everyone loved it.
There are so many choices out there, take a look around. Older Camaros, Trans am, are good. Besides with and older car you dont feel like crying if you dent it.
One more thing, if you are given a new car, you will not take care of it, you have to earn it.
2007-01-23 06:05:32 · answer #3 · answered by daisy duke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have driven the saturn sky, which is the same car with a diferent chassis on it, and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES would I give it to a 16 year old, especially as a first car. It has entirely too much power for a new driver, and even though it is very easy to control and holds the road great, as a first car, it presents entirely too much temptation to do stupid things with it and end up wrecking the car and possibly killing yourself.
In case you were thinking that I am a father trying to protect dumb kids, I am 20. It's a fast car, and there is way too much potential for something to go wrong. Also, from my experience, most new drivers will be involved in at least one minor accident, and that would be extremely expensive to repair. The insurance for a 16 year old even without an accident, would be extremely expensive.
Besides, buy a saturn sky. They look much better.
2007-01-19 07:35:11 · answer #4 · answered by spacecase544 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well-no. I just bought one yesterday. It is a play car for us. We don't use it for a primary vehicle. But, my wife literally has nowhere to place her purse in the solstice. You are extremely limited on what you can bring with you, especially with a passenger. The trunk holds very little.
Don't get me wrong. I love it for the purpose of a toy. But it really would not suit the lifestyle of 99+% of 16 yr olds. As far as too much power for you, I and many of my friends had powerful cars as teens. Most respected their vehicles too much. I don't think any more of the high horsepower club killed/injured themselves than any other kids.
So what do you have? '06wrx? 200xterra?, 350z?, '03mr2?, '03 E?
2007-01-19 16:05:15 · answer #5 · answered by dreamlessleep 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly I think it has too much power for some adults and teens and I'm 16 too...i suggest a pontiac g6 nice compact and it has just enough power to have a little fun and not feel like ur gonna kill urself in the near future
2007-01-22 10:06:01 · answer #6 · answered by pooh_pooh_07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are a very nice car but if i were you I would hold of just yet on getting it get you self some ugly beater first to wright off
it will happen trust me even if you don't wright it off there well be dents once you get over that stage then look in to getting it maybe remember Indy car drivers start out on go karts too!!
not saying you should drive like an Indy car drive but you should have some experience before you move up to some thing that can get you in to trouble
2007-01-20 21:10:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just bought a solstice and I love it, HOWEVER, you will be a speed trap in that car and your insurance will be more than the car payment, if you can even get insured with it.
2007-01-19 10:46:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put it this way: buy a old school chevy caprice, or impala (that is if you can find one). The extra money you get left after the insurance you can put towards your prom or something like that. You aint gotta have a fast car to be cool.
2007-01-22 07:57:40 · answer #9 · answered by eightballe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a nice little car, but it isn't practical as a first car, or as your only car. It's too small. What about a Scion TC?
2007-01-19 13:34:48 · answer #10 · answered by Child 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋