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Originally Posted by SirBrad

I don't think you should use 60% of your salary on car/insurance/gas but that's just me.

Originally Posted by Hercules778

I agree with siggy to wait to put down 20% on the car..you're gonna lose alotta money on the apr btw..

Imo..im taking it a step further and say you shouldn't be driving around a brand new camaro (even if it is a v6 304hp)..because you're only 18 years old and this is your very first car; imo get a certified preowned car thats reliable n safe.

Trust me when I say this buddy but when I was 18 Im suprised I didn't get myself killed the way I drove. I never got in an accident when I was young but at 18 my first car was a leased bmwz3 roadster for 500 a month. I used to drink alot with my buddies at that age drinking beers and trying to sneak into clubs and drove home intoxicated pretty much half the time and every single weekend. I never got busted but even to this day I say to myself..damn...how did I NOT kill myself or someone else, at the very least get pulled over by cops or not get in at least one accident?

My sister was not so lucky, even though she never partied the way I did when she was young, she got a 1988 iroc z camaro for her very first car. 2 weeks later she crashed it. 2 years into she crashed it about 5-6 times and it got stolen once. Her arm got slashed up pretty good once needed about 60 stitches. Once she crashed it into a tree and broke her leg. My sister was not a party person but...that camaro was her very first car and she wanted to impress her friends n stuff (im guessing)..show off the car..try to do burnouts..stupid stuff..

Now you might say to yourself..well Im 18 but I smart enough not to do that..and you're probably cocky, think that you're a great pro driver...but at that age your friends usually peer pressure u to do stuff that you normally wouldnt do, or you might wanna impress that girl and do something stupid n fly off and lose control of your car. To put it quite bluntly, you don't have much driving experience. Ive been a truck driver since age21 and the stuff that I know now about driving is like night and day than when I was 18. Imo dont stretch yourself out on 500 a month and sky high insurance due to your age and new car, and get a used one for your very first car that you won't really give a darn if you bump something when you park at tight spaces..where if you damage something its cheap to fix compared to a brand new car.

Jeeps make great first cars. You can see things alot better, you can see over the traffic on the highways, you can see what's in front of the car you're following..they got a good kick in torque for those dangerous situations where you're at a stop sign and gotta merge onto a highway where cars are going 60mph..your buddies can hop in your car and you can give them a lift..or you can pick up a girl and her friends and throw your crap in the back of the jeep for storage like your bookbag gym stuff dirty sneakers..etc

Even though my first car was a z3 bmw..my dad had this 1997 mercury mountaneer jeep stashed in the garage for bad weather and for pulling his boat around..and I drove that pretty often..could throw my crap around in the car and not worry..or squeeze into tight parking spots and not care if someone bumped it to get out..I packed it with friends for days that no one had a ride and we all wanted to hang out when I was 18..it helped me get to places quicker cuz I could see over traffic..etc..


Sorry yall if I get flamed here but..man..I know when my kid turns 18..he aint getting no brand new camaro lol...he's gettin' a preowned 220hp car. Maybe its just me, maybe its cuz I used to do alot of dangerous stuff when I was an 18 year old kid..maybe its from seeing what others did to their cars first hand..maybe it was me being in the passenger seat of my friends who were also 18 at the time and got into bad car accidents..or maybe its seeing pics of 18 year old kids with their brains splattered all over the place cuz they got a brand new high horse powered sports/muscle car from their parents for their very first car..but it just aint very safe for a new driver to begin getting driving experience from a brand new 300hp low visibility camaro...srry.

There's one of these posts at least once a week. You shouldn't be spending that large of your monthly income on ANY vehicle.