IMHO, Doug DeMuro was wrong. The best car for a teenager isn't an old Land Cruiser, it's a Tercel. cars

A Tercel, like a Land Cruiser, is stupidly easy to fix. All it takes is google and a wrench. It also will have lower insurance premiums, and a much lower rollover risk during "spirited" drives. Besides, it's not like the Tercel is a speed demon, with a measly 60bhp. The Tercel sips gas like an awkward freshman at a keg party sips beer, pretending to take a drink as everyone else gets blasted, all while wondering how anyone likes the taste of beer. If the Land Cruiser was also at the party with the Tercel, that would be weird because who would invite 80s-90s Toyotas to a party and give them beer. Additionally, given the limited space offered by a Tercel, and the fact its a smaller, less powerful corolla, automotive-assisted copulation is significantly less likely.

This is all wonderful, as it easily fixes the flaws with the Land Cruiser, except for one thing. Safety. Doug brought up safety a bunch, but he's looking at it from the wrong angle. If a driver of a Land Cruiser, heavy and high up, with soft suspension and softer brakes cuts across two lanes of traffic and plows front-first into a parked Jeep Grand Cherokee owned by a middle aged man and purchased during a midlife crisis, it'll be because the driver of the Land Cruiser wasn't constantly in mortal danger. When you drive a Tercel, you would be safer in a refrigerator box duct taped to a pair of rollerblades from toys-r-us. As you are constantly put in near death experiences by things like trucks not paying attention while changing lanes and geese, you get a lot more wary of everything. No longer can you speed through traffic with the vague feeling you'll survive, and if shit does hit the fan, you are much better equipped to avoid a crash. Hell, even if you do crash, instead of transferring the energy from a massive Land Cruiser onto some poor shmuck, you'll lock eyes with your own existence and wonder what it's like to die as a virgin in a used-to-be yellow Tercel with a nonexistent spare tire and an exhaust that leaks so much, Julian Assange would be jealous. As you limp away from the wreckage, vowing never to speed again, the other driver would wonder if it would make him late for a 10 o'clock meeting, and if the dent could be popped out.

If you don't like this or disagree with what I said, I'd love constructive criticism.

Submitted February 14, 2015 at 10:42AM by NotUrMomsMom http://ift.tt/1D7ihB0 cars