So, back in the day (2005) I had a Porsche 944 and a Pontiac Fiero. I autocrossed both and generally just ripped around town in them. Well, family priorities changed and when we were getting ready to travel to China to adopt our daughter I sold both of them to help fund the adoption. There was no suffering on my part, like I said family priorities were just different.
We happen to have two birth children, the oldest drove my Audi 90 until he moved out west. My other son and I built a Corvette together (that ended in tears, you can read about it here https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/my-latest-mistake-star-80/105684/page1/ but I will just let you now I sold it when he got expelled from school) My middle son is in the Navy now, doing fine so he pulled his E36 M3 together.
Well, now that my daughter is 16 she and my wife bought her a car. 2015 Chevy Sonic hatch back with automatic transmission. We thought about getting her a manual, as my wife can drive stick, but ultimately we decided that an automatic was fine, no biggie.
The stats:
2015 Chevy Sonic LS (Base of the base models)
Automatic Transmission
1.8 gas engine
5 door
96,xxx miles
Manual roll up windows (may daughter almost didn't understand that you needed to roll them up yourself, lol)
No cruise control (it is the basest of the base models)
Steel wheels with plastic hub caps
My wife and I call it the hedgehog (as in Sonic the hedgehog) My daughter calls it "Rory"
My daughter saw my son and I working on the Corvette together when she was younger so when she got her car she asked if I would teach her how to work on the car like I did with her big brother.
"You bettcha, kid".