Old Feb 11, 2008 | 12:23 PM
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Default RE: The Short, Deadly Story of a Kid and his M5

My yougest sons first car was a Dodge Stealth. Yeah at first you say that its a sports car and thats what I used to talk him into it. It was a base Stealth with the SOHC 173 HP model. Drivers air bag with 4 wheel Anti-lock brakes. He still has this car today and to look at it it looks fast. Its black with 2 wide racing stripes running down the legnth of the car. He got the looks of a fast car but I liked the lower HP and the safety features. He has moved on since those days to a Eclpse GST and now a 350Z. He learned to drive in slower cars and now has worked his way up to better handling and more HP. He has never recieved any points against his license and I would like to say that its because he learned to drive correctly. I tried to give him something that allowed the apperance of fast without the grunt. Don't get me wrong it was quite capable of fast speeds no doubt, but it did not posess the HP to unleash it at one time. If you take most any car they will all go over 100 mph, but you give the inexperienced driver all the safety advantages you can and you monitor them closely to take those priveleges away as deamed. And pray and pray some more. You wait until they have the skill and maturity to drive as they should and then you still pray I also feel the parents let this situation progress and like a train wreck it was bound to happen. I hate it but I hope someone some where will see this and stop long enough to think it out.
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