Okay well last night I went to an old friend of mines house to play halo 2. After a nice night of blasting people and playing cooperative I decided to leave home. I put my x-box in the trunk and was ready to leave when I notiecd a huge 5 inch dent in my car. Im suprised the glass didnt crack or break because the door handle is completely useless and I had to go through the passenger side to drive my 8! I asked the neighbor and they said that a relative of theirs hit my car with a truck. I called the guy this morning hes willing to pay for everything but the fact that I am eightless is heartbreaking. It just pisses me off that he did not see it at all even when its VELOCITY RED. Its back to my moms old 92 accord for a few days. I know im not the only one that this has happen to so im just sharing. ill try to post pics before it goes into the shop

 

first off your 16 and have a very nice car...your parents must really love you...atleast their willing to pay for it..now deal with it!

 

yeah...you're pretty right

 

you should have called the cops that night. they usually treat hit and runs pretty serious. plus it would be nice to have a police report in case this guy tries to cheat you about fixing your car which he probably will since he didnt even bother to leave a note or find the owner when he hit it.

 

~why is it that when someone who isn't a "young" rx8 owner has his car smashed in people feel sympathy for them but when a 16 year old does, you tell him to deal with it. Geeez i've noticed that every rx8 owner under the age of 20 are just seen a spoiled brats. It's not his fault his parents have money. The 8 seems to be marketed toward the younger buyers anyways.

 

Sonny, (geez, I'm old), you must be kidding...You're lucky to be driving, let alone have a car like this...My first car was 16 years old and cost $100. Quit the whining!

Good luck with the repair....

 

i will have to agree with the post above. now i am not a kid anymore and my parents never bought a car for me, but i still think the pettyness of the comments are low. his parents bought him a new 8, good for him. just because of that, doesnt mean you have to put him down...goodness

 

Yep, probably feel a little jealous that I couldn't afford a great car like the 8 when I was 16. But then again, I didn't have any sense of value back then either. I probably would have abused a car badly that I didn't have to pay for. Unlike now when I dont abuse it a bit.

 

well see for 1 i was just sharing a bad experience... and about the police report..i couldnt file it because the situation was more complicated than that. The good thing is the guy is paying for the damage and that everything is resolved..jeez..are all members of this forum quick to put down younger ones?

 

not all members. But stupidity is always addressed. None in this case, though, but you are a poor victim of stupidity. Sorry bout that. GL w/ the repairs

 

Regardless of age, your situation sucks.
That being said be happy you are in the position to have an 8.
I am not jealous. I didnt have a nice car when I was 16 but I do now.
Parents who buy their kids fancy cars are wrong. No matter how well off they are.
You may be an exception but most "kids" who have a mommy and daddy that buy them cars are usually little ******** that drive like maniacs, and show no respect for the things they have because they didnt have to work for it.

 

I sympathize with you, Im 17 and have an 8 and I got a door ding as well by some bitch mother at the gym with her kids, AN ADULT mind you, and looked the ding, which I have her on video doing all this, but its not clear enough to see who it was or the license plate.... YES ADULTS make mistakes too, and I find it annoying when jealous ADULTS critisize our parents because they buy us cars, and can afford to buy us cars, my parents have it, they can spend it, and think i deserve it... they worked their asses off to get where they are, and are pround and willing and able to purchase me a car, and they were willing to purchase me pretty much any car up to 50,000 dollars and I chose this car, moral of the story I guess is, there will always be jealous people in this world, and just because your parents bought you a 100 dollar car doesnt mean my parents should, and my parents raised me in a manner in which i appreciate anything and everything that comes my way, and I dont put down other because they have more or less than me, you should learn a lesson or two in manners, maybe then your parents would have bought you a nicer car.....

 

You "deserve" it???? You "deserve" nothing. Your parents worked hard. Ya if ya got it and want to spend it on your kids fine. But you you most certainly deserve nothing.
Good for you and your car but parents buying things for their kids like fancy cars creates the mindset that they "deserve" things.
I prefer to earn things.

 

bean, you are just stereotyping teens, maybe you were like that with your 100 dollar beater, but my friends and I arent like that... close friends car line up is as follows, and all brand new.....

My RX-8
Aviator
BMW 330 Coupe
Acura TL
Porsche Cayanne
BMW X5 4Liter
ML350
Infiniti FX45
Lexus IS300
Range Rover
Hemi Jeep
Hummer

What do you say about a community like mine where this is the norm?? We are all disgusting horrible people, who are all wrong? We must be doing something right to be able to afford all these material things whilist being good and loving people... Maybe the socioeconomic values passed to you where the wrong ones, Im sure as hell the values being passed on to me arent... Im an educated person, who cares about all people, while still being able to maintain a company at age 17, which I started with no help from family, but the people in my community, I pay fair wages to my employees, and still make more than most people in the US, and probably this forum, and I started not to long ago... So do me a favor and rethink your stance

 

My friends and I are good people, who work hard, and do community service, and expect nothing in return, we go to school, keep out of trouble, and play active and vital roles in our community, we work with younger children, we help the elderly, I think we deserve it....

I maintain a company, I work for my fathers comapnies, I take care of his assests and real estate, I work with his employees, and brokers, I work on publicity, this is pretty normal for my friends as well, except they dont run a company of their own, they work with their fathers... yes we deserve it... or our parents seem to think so...


And if not your kids then on what? What do you work for? My parents always say, they live and work for their children, so their children can live and work for their children, and they want us to be happy and healthy, their have been very ruff patches for my family, and all thats done to us is make us closer and work harder as a unit, and we eventually got out of that, my brother and I really did work long hours and it wasnt easy and my father recognizes that - thats why he never questions me on whether or not I deserve something... your being very very ignorant... is the point of your money to be burried with it? do you even have kids?

 

Good for you. Your friends and their cars sound like the OC or Beverly hills 90210.
Your parents are sucsessfull. I am happy for them, they are living the american dream.
You run a company, thats also great. But the way you came across "deserving" something.
Years ago I worked as a custodian at a school in a ritzier part of town. Lot's of kids drove nice cars that they "deserved". For the most part they were some of the snotiest, whiney, ill manered, and ignorant kids out there.
Most had parents who were well off, and started with nothing, and were not pretentious. They didnt "deserve" anything, and were not handed anything.
Look at a lot of sucsessfull people out there. A lot of them came from nothing.
Its usually the kids who were given everything and were born into old money that are the problem. (i.e Paris Hilton etc.)
I can see if you had good grades, got accepted into a university or something like that. A wicked car would be a nice gesture. But to get a car simply because you deserve one? Give me a break.
Be thankfull, dont flaunt it and dont drive like an *******, and dont treat other people like ****.
I am not saying YOU in particular are like that, but in my experience MOST kiddies that are born onto wealth do not appreciate it, and it shows.

 

I know plenty of people who are wealthy and pass on proper edicit to their children, and you say you were a custodian in a whealthy, affluent town, and dont you think its possible that your point of view could have been filtered by the fact that you may not have liked your job, or something in that manner, I know we have all been there... Its normal human behavior

Just dont over generalize and everything will be fine.... Not all people are a certain way... Most of the wealthy are decent people, Ive been on both sides of the spectrum, Ive been woorking poor and Ive been upper class, all in 17 years, I know what its like to be on both sides, and the stance your taking is one of jealousy and ignorance... and for every rich spoiled brat teenager I have met, there are 20000 more working class adults who behave worse than them, drive drunk consistantly, swear up and down while driving, speed, and get into wreckless situations, and probably do more drugs than any teen I know, and simply are disgusting horrible people, you just can judge a person by their wealth, there is no real connection between the two...

 

wished i had a 8 when i was 16, at that age i think i was praying for a civic...

 

WHY OH WHY is it so important for all 16 to 18 year olds to declare that point in their posts. I don't sit here and post "23 year old needs help with his 8."

It's just obvious that they want attention and enjoy the fact that they're in a very small percentage of young drivers who own 8's. Not much we can do, but we certainly shouldn't fuel their fire.

 

Hmmm. interesting point .

 

Good point shaolin, Im guilty of that myself lol

 

First dude, it sucks your car got owned like that.

To comment on the other rantings, I agree his inclusion of "16 year old" in the title was merely to get attention, but how immature is it to flame him? You really need to be a sad person to sit on here and call this kid a brat and all for being rich. True, he may not deserve it, but what do you care? Saying he should be happy with a smashed car sounds like something a 16 year old would say, not someone of your high, working-class stature. Make love, not war. :p

Chris

 

Oh my god, is there a period in this sentence? Sorry, off topic...

 

You can't afford squat. Your parents can afford it and lucky you! I wish I had an 8 when I was 16!

 

Lets not go there friend..... I most likely make more than you do.... you dont know me, so dont judge me.... It will really hurt if we start talking about how much people make, and you find out a "little" 17 year old makes more than you.... talk about envy

Ignorance is bliss my friend