that things got plenty of life left cmon!

i definitely wouldn’t have expressed that to my parents either, not at 16, and you say she should know better but idk, she’s still a child. i think it’s possible that she said that out of pure entitlement sure, but even if so she’s still incidentally correct. both sides are wrong but the parents always take more blame because they should know better, period.

lecturing your kids and talking down to them simply doesn’t work and is part of why we have so many a******s walking around today

this has nothing to do with what i posted at all

turning down a car is the opposite of knowing your worth lol

if she knew her worth she'd be grateful to have a starter while being confident she could get a better car later on her own

What do you genuinely think you can get that's better in the price range of this Buick ?

okay then the budget is $2000, you level with your kid and say “we wanna get you a car but this is all we can afford. do you have anything in mind at that budget” like it ain’t that hard. it’s just part of this culture in america of not communicating with your damn kids. small children are waaaaay smarter than folks think, let alone full blown teenagers. if they actually sat down and spoke with their daughter before like normal human beings we wouldn’t have any rage bait to talk about here

Exactly, a Buick is phenomenal for low end budgets on first cars

who cares

okay im not gonna engage in this convo with you until you reread my post and figure out what i was trying to say because you’re tryna have a whole ass other convo with me. this s*** has literally nothing to do with cars yo

it is interesting to think like before social media you would only know about small stuff in your area and what’s on the news like you would only hear about a story like this a handful of times in your entire life at most and have a couple people to talk about it with now it’s stories like this all time snd endless reply guys to discuss with

i see what you’re saying but those buicks are like on paper the best cars you can get in their price range they may just not look cool like a similarly old bmw with a ton of miles and headaches

That’s a 2000 Buick Century. She should be honored to pilot that luxurious land yacht

If it’s got the 3800 V6, it will be the most reliable vehicle on the road. Nuclear fallout will happen, and mutated cockroaches will be whipping around in it

I didn't get "she knows her worth" out of that exchange at all. She just thinks the car is ugly and is ungrateful for the one she received, it's not that deep lol

"That's not my style I'm a growing girl I go to 11th grade next year" sounds so fake btw

I dont think you know much about cars or the market, especially if you can't connect my replies to your "point" still

The knows your worth thing comes from her saying her parents bought themselves nice cars so she deserves a free nice car lol

I can't for the life of me imagine what that guy and the girl thinks is out there that is comparable within the same price range

for $2K all you really getting is beater. That car looks great and gets her form point A to B quicker than before and without having to call her parents.

She’s embarrassed because her parents have nice things that they worked hard for and since she’s accomplished great things, she’s thinks she’s automatically qualified to receive nice things as well. This is a nice reality check and I support the parents showing her a lesson about life, where you can do everything right and still not get what you want…but that shouldn’t stop you from humbling yourself, continuing to work hard, and satisfying yourself with your desires as opposed to expectations of others.

Appreciate what you got while you have it, work hard for something better, sell the one that got you there, and get your own nice car. She sounds entitled, and you went into a whole other diatribe about your assumptions on society as a whole to affirm your stance on this topic

Who cares

Same

Learned to drive on a 93 Park Avenue, to this day still the best car I ever drove.

Within a year off my first Buick I upgraded to a '90 Seville

I miss that f***in gas guzzler

The kid is right. When I turned 16 my parents bought me a Tesla. Actually, they bought me two of them, one white and one black in case I wanted to match the car's colour with one of my outfits. For Christmas that same year they got me a Ferrari, but that was the worst Christmas ever because they bought me a Blue Ferrari instead of a Red one, and I got no outfits that go with a Blue Ferrari. Pisses me off. I hate my parents.

Sell the car and then tell that bum b**** to get a job and buy herself a car.