Student Car

[Granite]

Everyone is trying to make this into another pickup, SUV, family car when the first use that comes to mind to me is it’s an ideal student vehicle.
Low Cost
EV
Easily Replaceable
Easily Customizeable
2 Passenger
Short Range
Easy Damage Repair

Meanwhile you stlll have an economical little truck for short errands, trips to Home Depot, fun stuff.
I got a very basic old car when I started driving in high school. My dad didn’t have to worry about what I did with it. I never wrecked it but I drove the dickens out of it. Fond memories.

 

[atx_ev]

Everyone is trying to make this into another pickup, SUV, family car when the first use that comes to mind to me is it’s an ideal student vehicle.
Low Cost
EV
Easily Replaceable
Easily Customizeable
2 Passenger
Short Range
Easy Damage Repair

Meanwhile you stlll have an economical little truck for short errands, trips to Home Depot, fun stuff.
I got a very basic old car when I started driving in high school. My dad didn’t have to worry about what I did with it. I never wrecked it but I drove the dickens out of it. Fond memories.

thats my plan. Not sure what Ill do with my tundra. Ill have to see after I get the slate. But my son is almost 14 and will be learning to drive at 15. The slate will be his car. The law says only one unrelated person in the car at under 18 and my daughter broke that rule a lot. The slate will prevent that.

By the time he is driving, my daughter will be taking her car back with her to college.

The slate is 100% not a family car. Though a bench seat would help with that. The average family is 3.15 people. The slate is geared towards young singles, especially in urban areas or older people who need a truck form factor as a second car for sports/home maintenance.

 

[tubes]

And then you have a place to move your crap to college. Then after college move into to your own place (or these days, back to your parents' place I suppose).

Frunk will make a good tailgating area for college football games.

Throw some people in the back and drive around and get the cops attention. That's a college tradition too. (They usually give you a warning first.)

 

[cadblu]

Throw some people in the back and drive around and get the cops attention. That's a college tradition too. (They usually give you a warning first.)

Especially in the open air configuration!

 

[Granite]

Subaru Brat comes to mind.

 

[Granite]

Subaru Brat had 2 jump seats with grab handles mounted in the bed.

 

[ScooterAsheville]

My first and only car accident was as a student. Four door Mustang. I was distracted taking to the back seat and turned left in front of some poor lady. 100% my fault. Student cars should have 2 seats maximum.

Even better. Give the kid an Uber gift card. Anybody under 10 today will probably never need to drive anyway.

 

[Granite]

Never heard of a four door Mustang until the Mustang MachE electric.
As for Uber, what a travesty for a young person growing up not to experience the freedom of being able to drive. Some of my fondest memories involved the freedom of having my first car.This might work in San Francisco or New York, but we enjoy the freedom of living in a small southern town. No Ubers here.

 

[KevinRS]

Never heard of a four door Mustang until the Mustang MachE electric.
As for Uber, what a travesty for a young person growing up not to experience the freedom of being able to drive. Some of my fondest memories involved the freedom of having my first car.This might work in San Francisco or New York, but we enjoy the freedom of living in a small southern town. No Ubers here.

New York and San Francisco have had people who have gone their whole lives and into retirement without driving. But it's something that is increasing, at least in areas where city planning and transportation allows it. Some areas are planned for walking to be possible, and stores to be within walking distance of residential, others have residential set up with cul-de-sacs making a 2 mile walk into 5, little to no sidewalks, and the nearest store is 10+ miles away anyway, and public transportation is a few miles walk, hourly or worse, doesn't go where you need, and unpredictable delays, if it exists at all.

 

[Granite]

I have owned 43 cars and trucks. I like ‘em.
I walk 10,000 steps/day too.
I’m 80 years old, set in my ways I suppose.

 

[ScooterAsheville]

>> what a travesty for a young person growing up not to experience the freedom of being able to drive

Strong disagree. But a polite disagree. I get your intent. I still remember the joy I felt at age 16 when I fist took the family car for a solo drive just because I could. I just don't necessarily equate mobility and empowerment with driving in this era.

It would be a travesty if young people did not have the freedom to travel anywhere they want. Autonomous cars will give them exactly that. And we won't slaughter 40,000 of them per year, and maim hundreds of thousands more. And we wont spend untold billions in legal and damage and medical costs each year.

Imagine a world in which you don't need insurance, because there are no accidents. Where a million lawyers are suddenly unemployed. Where there are no body shops because there are no collisions. Where the three young men killed yesterday in my state because they rolled their infinity 5 times at speed were still alive.

I think that's a wonderful world. It's a few decades off, but it's insanely shortsighted not to work as hard as we can to get there.

I'd add as an aging Boomer... We have to let go of the experiences of our youth ,and let the world move forward. You can't hit a FREEZE button. As the movie said, "The Kids Are Alright".