1) Stay away from Chrysler and Dodge. They use torsion bar suspension and ride like a truck. They are nothing but an engine on a too stiff of a chassie. If you like getting your teeth rattled out of you head and the way your back feels after riding a horse for 12 hours, then you will love Chrysler and Dodge products.
2) Don't even think of allowing any beginner driver to drive a mussel car, let alone have full time use of one. If you do they will have many more accidents, get many speeding tickets and probably loose there license if you are lucky. If you are unlucky they will get into an serious accident where someone gets hurt or killed. There are 36 thousand to 42 thousand people killed in vehicle accidents each year in the United States of America. Do you want your child to be one of them? Or to live the rest of ther life knowing that they cause one or more of them?
The air force does not start off would be fighter pilots in a fast fully equipped fighter that can go faster than the speed of sound. They have them get many hours in slow trainers that give them time to think and come up with the proper response when they are learning to fly.
Like wise you do not put a beginner driver in a sports car or any high power car.
3) Get a Plain Jane large car with enough extra size to have some of the vehicles body available to absorb impact and protect your child when (not if) they get into an accident. (Get a used vehicle if you would mind the kid busting it up). Pick one with an under-powered size engine. After the kid gets over the initial disappointment that it is not a race car, you will hear praise about the good gas mileage the smaller engine gets, and the lack of power will keep you child out of serious trouble.
4) Be sure to school them about keeping the vehicle properly maintained / inspected , quickly pulling into a store or service station if the oil light comes on and putting oil in (tell them it cost several thousand dollare to replace the engine that will blow up if they don't), keeping good tires on the vehicle (tires with enough tread not to hydroplane in rain when it is not winter, and proper type and tread depth in the winter),keeping tires properly inflated, get them a digital air gauge and teach them how to use it, have tires rotated with each oil change, and change oil when required, and have vehicles brakes serviced within 3 days if they squeal.
5)Some of the things I teach beginner drivers.
The proper speed is 5 to 7 miles per hour over the posted speed limit unless you are in a school zone, or driving in a speed trap town like Cuyahoga Falls Ohio. If someone is inpatient and blows there horn at you and tries to get you to go faster, ask you-self if they are going to put enough cash in you hand to pay for the speeding ticket and the increase in your insurance for the next 3 years from getting a speeding ticket.
In a school zone if traffic comes to a stop, or you have to stop for a light or stop sign within the school zone, put the vehicle in lowest gear until you get to the sign that says end school zone. This way you do not forget you are in a school zone when you start moving again.
I ask them what are the two ways you can turn a vehicle. They respond right and left. I tell them no don't think of the two directions as right and left. Think of them as right and you do not have the right of way. And I then explain to them that every time they make a "YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY TURN" that crosses oncoming traffic that you do not have the right of way. I actually give directions to them from then on using the words make a right, or make a you do not have the right of way turn.
I take them to RR tracks that do not cross the road at a 90 degree angel, and I swing the car and stop so that it is 90 degree to the track so I can see both ways. I then have them do the same.
I tell them to imagine a old large coffee can in the center of the car on the floor. Every time they change lanes they have to put a twenty dollar bill in that can. That money will sit there and build up to pay for the accident they will have when they change lanes with someone in their blind spot. I teach them that an experienced driver will sit in their lane and wait for the vehicle in front of them to move, and will not change lanes because they know that the risk is not worth it.
I teach them that if they ever do change lanes it must always be slow enough so that if a vehicle was in their blind spot it would have plenty of time to slow down and avoid an accident.
Start them off with driving on back streets. Teach them that running a stop sigh can be fatal, especially at intersections that do not have a stop sigh in all directions. If there direction has a stop sign and someone is coming on a street that does not have a stop sign the other vehicle will go through the intersection at full speed without slowing down, and they would be right to do so. If they run a stop sigh there could be a severe accident.
Take them to a 5 way intersection with stop signs and have them watch for about one hour and see how many run a stop sign.
Take them to an intersection where at least one direction does not have a stop sign and does not have to stop and others have a stop sign. Have them see how many times the one with the right of way without the stop sign has their right of way violated by people not staying stopped once they stop, or not stopping at all.
Teach them that if several vehicles come to an intersection with a stop sigh that each must stop, and the vehicle that stops first is the vehicle that has the right to go first.
In conclusion, it takes anywhere from 10 to 20 years before a driver becomes a component driver. Only after you child can honestly say they have been driving for 8 years without a speeding ticket, or any type of accident, are they ready for a sports car or a car with excess power. Any sooner than that and you are being grossly irresponsible.
