BMGTZ said:
give your kids a safe car and you can only hope. safe as in awd= hard to do spin wheels unless they are deliberately doing so. ABS and 4wheel discs = hopefully they can steer around the accident or stop before it.
no, no, NO! Get them an old car that's slow and noisy, Teach them to look further ahead than just in front of the bonnet, teach them to cadence brake, teach them to rely on themselves and give them the skills to drive defensively, not to rely on the car to keep them safe!
Look at suv drivers, almost without exception they are terrible, no concept of what is going on around them, or the risk they pose to themselves and others, that cocoon of safety and sound deadening allows them to forget that they are piloting two tonnes of steel. You wouldn't sky dive without checking your equipment, but I'll bet many people (even some on here, who should know better) will just jump in their car without even a glance at the tires. Only when they are halfway down the road might they notice that it "feels odd" because the left rear has gone completely flat whilst they were at the movies (for example).
Ideally give your kids and old rwd car with a tiny gutless engine, no stereo and only one seat. Boys (and some girls) WILL try and spin the wheels, slide the car, push the limits of what it can do - this is ingrained, built in, primeval maybe. When the car loses grip on a bend in the wet, kid A in the old corolla on 175's will be doing ~70km/h, kid B in the
"safe" new AWD suv will be doing 120+km/h - who's going to scare themselves and learn a lesson, and who's going to find that the safest car in the world is no match for a tree?
