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Originally Posted by ResidualJinx
My son is 15 and by the end of this year will be allowed to have a learners permit and eventually a provisional license. There is no way in hell he is learning to drive in my M5 and the wife's giant SUV (Navigator L) is equally out of the question. We've already planned to get him a car, but is it crazy to sync the purchase with the time he gets his permit so he learns on his actual car and not our $100k cars?
Sorry to those that posted in the other copy of this post, idk how it ended up in the tuning section. Just wanted to hit a wider audience here in the general forum.
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That is exactly what we did for our 2 teenage boys. Wife drives a Yukon XL Denali and I have the M5 Comp. We got them a car about 6 months before they turned 16...they learned to drive on that. Once they turned 16 we got a second car so they each had one.
While I've let them drive my M5 (with me in the car) on a few rare occasions, I would never let them "learn" to drive on my car. And making them learn on a big SUV is a bit cruel in my opinion (plus when first learning they just aren't capable drivers to handle that large of a car, IMO). So we got them a smaller car to learn on.
Now in full disclosure, I learned to drive on a 1973 Jeep Wrangler with a V-8 and 3 speed manual transmission. No power steering or power brakes. My dad told me if I could drive that car, I could drive any car. Man how times have changed.