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Originally Posted by bleucamaro

Might have missed some posts, but I'll assume insurance is part of his budget.

Does he go to a fancy high school in a rich area? When I was in HS, if you had something significantly nicer than those around you, it would get messed with. With that in mind, I'd vote for something under the radar a bit: Pre-2008 WRX or STI, 240sx, BRZ/GR86.

If showing up to school in a newish Merc or BMW isn't out of place: C5 vette, E36 M3, E92 335is.

Technically it’s a private Catholic high school but it’s not fancy or exclusive. Wichita Catholic schools are tithe based, they don’t have tuition and they don’t turn people away for financial reasons. So it’s not what I would call fancy, there’s another school that charges about $15k per year and caters to a much different demographic.

While way nicer than the beater truck I had as a teen, $25k is still well under the average used car price in 2024. We’re basically talking late model Honda Civic money. The average used car was just under $30k in 2024.

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Wow, it got totaled and it still had temp plates. Your daughter must have been a little upset.

Yeah that was a bad day. We flew to NC to pick it up and had a fun road trip home. She drove it for about a month. Then we had to fight with USAA for two months, first because it hadn’t been titled yet and second when they tried to lowball the hell out of us. Eff those people, they suck.