She's 19 1/2 yrs of age, working full-time, saving boo-coo amounts of cash, and she signed a lease (along with me), laid down a nice sum for the down, and somewhere between April 11th and the 20th, she'll be driving away in the following:

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A 2015 Subaru WRX AWD, manual shift, and she's estatic. Pays for her own auto insurance and the whole 9 yards. Really proud of her. Of course, dad will get to test drive it too (at least a few times):-)

I'll post some photo's of the actual car once she picks it up (it'll be the same color as the above sample pix)...
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Nice ride!
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I see tickets in her future :-)
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Sweet ride!
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She has a great smile and blue eyes:-):-)
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:-)
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Kick ass ride and sounds like a great kid too.
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I'm jealous. I've got a 2011 WRX and those new ones are just.. sharp!
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Nice ride, Mark.
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Very nice. She will be happy with that one.
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Sweet ride
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She picked a nice car Mark!
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Maybe she'll let dad drive it to SoCal Peter (NOT!!!):-)



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Nice cars those WRX's. I've raced against a few and they are very capable. I'm going to assume that my son will one day be into sports cars, both my wife and I race MX and various SCCA events including Trials and Solo. When he is ready to drive he will attend one or more of these:

http://www.scca.com/about/?cid=44408

There is no way I'd put a teenager into a car as capable as the WRX without formal aggressive/defensive driving skills. If you weren't aware of this type of training please follow the link and get her signed up.
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Is there something like what you mentioned for older drivers? I've seen the skip barber and others like it but they are close to $1500 and for only one day. Personally I don't think that kind of thing can be learned in one day.

Also do you know anything about the SRT experience that dodge offers. It's about $700 for the day but I'm not sure what they teach. I see that they teach racing but they don't mention anything about loss of control or things like that.
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Yes the SCCA offers a program for adults called PDX, or performance driving experience. I've been to them for several years. I stay away from brand sponsored events as they are allowing you to basically drive a de-tuned super car on a track with little instruction rather a "get as many people through" mentality.

I've raced SCCA trials on full sized tracks, and often when I'm getting flat I'll take a PDX course in order to ride with an instructor and see how I can improve.

The one thing about PDX is you'll need your own car, but any sports sedan or so will do fine.

Edit, I agree, most kids go through several one day courses, like I said in my first post, he will attend one or more of these most likely more!

Oh one more edit, a PDX weekend costs about $300 or so for two days. Of course you'll be driving your own car, Skip Barber and others provide the car hence the high cost.
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Sweet, Mark! You Should Be Proud Of Her!:-):-)
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Very nice, Mark and obviously a good job of parenting. :-)
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A 2002 WRX was the first new I car I had ever leased. A couple of younger co-workers have similar WRX as to what you post. For sure a car you want to lease, not own and she'll have a blast with it.
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