My son hates my Prius- How can I mod it to be cool to a 13yo

[Ray Moore]

So I get nothing but crap about this car from my 13 year old stepson. I am thinking of forcing him to drive it when the time comes just to make him suffer. He wants to see what mods could possibly make him change his mind about the looks of the car. I always wondered what this generation could come up with to totally irritate us as adults and this seems to be it. Oh well, I guess long hair and pot smoking was my parents torture and ours is to have kids with a love affair with big detroit iron. Oh the agony of it all. I wish I could take back all the ways I made my parents suffer. I'm so ashamed. Please help me.

[starla30]

If it makes you feel better, when I was 16 (only 6 years ago) my dad gave me a 1987 Toyota Celica. I loved that car and I loved speeding around in it. I knew I would always drive sports cars. I couldn't wait to get one that wasn't a complete rust bucket someday.

I got my first post college job about a year ago and immediately looked into getting myself my first new car, a nice ecomonical cheapie car. (I got a little sidetracked when I found the Prius of course.) But the point is, in about 5 years I went from sports car nut to not even considering the possibility of getting a sports car. Kids will be kids and boys will be boys. They change very quickly. It's very rare for a teenager to not be interested in a sports car but chances are they'll grow out of it.

[Frank Hudon]

if you've got a couple of hundred bucks, go and buy him a AMC Gremlin or some such iron monster and park it in the garage, out of sight of the neighbors and tell him when he's 16 or legal age he can have it for his own, he of course buys the tags and insurance, give him a project. In about 6 months of sitting in it and washing it your's will seem really "cool" and his will be towed to the bone yard. Make sure he gets a job to support his car. A brush with reality is the great equalizer. And your only out of pocket a couple of hundred bucks.

[eg239]

Ray, have you considered the Ricerroni Method?


Even if you don't actually do that, it's still good for a few laughs.

[TonyPSchaefer]

So I get nothing but crap about this car from my 13 year old stepson.

Take it from a former public school teacher: the kid's 13, for Pete's sake; only a couple years ago he thought girls had cooties. Don't worry too much about it. In time, he'll warm up to the car though he'll probably still rib you about it just for consistency's sake.

We've all been kids and should keep in mind how often our young tastes changed on a seemingly daily basis. Socrates once said, "children know nothing about being adults but adults know everything about being children."

[bookrats]

Ray, have you considered the Ricerroni Method?

Even if you don't actually do that, it's still good for a few laughs.

:lolup:

God, I about peed my pants laughing. Sort of like a cross between one of those Shops shows on the Discovery Channel, and The Red Green Show.

[Sun__Tzu]

Take it from a former public school teacher: the kid's 13, for Pete's sake; only a couple years ago he thought girls had cooties.

...wait... are you saying that girls _DON'T_ have cooties? hmm... interesting...

[jamarimutt]

My three kids (16, 15, 10) do not like the looks of the Prius. But, heck, this is MY car! I bought it and I like it. They can buy their own cars when they start working. :mrgreen:

[konakahuna]

1) tell him that the money you save in gasoline will go into helping him buy his first car when the time comes. the more you save, the more he gets, the better his first car will be.

2) show him pictures of the prius racing concept vehicles. tell him your car could be just as "sick"...but that it's simply in disguise. tell him you're trying to keep things on the down-low.

3) if all else fails, get a big subwoofer for the trunk. any car can be redeemed if it has a kickass stereo. the ability to shatter glass and cause permanent nerve damage should never be underestimated.

javascript:emoticon(':mrgreen:')

[Tempus]

Tell him it's ok, you know he's just jealous because the Prius has more CPU capacity than he does, but not to worry, you still love him best