<p>Take a saw and cut the muffler off. Spray paint the rims. Key some flames into the side. Get some stick on lights from fleet farm. Tint the windows really poorly so they know you did it. Get some hydraulics and bounce around town. Get a furry steering wheel cover. Put on some of those bullet hole stickers.</p>
<p>After all that come back here</p>
<p>Fuzzy dice!</p>
<p>Young adults usually have inexpensive cars or hand-me-down cars (like your car) since they cannot afford anything more expensive.</p>
<p>It’s definitely time to reconsider the notion that car ownership is a mark of adulthood, and that everyone automatically switches to driving when they turn 16 (particularly with graduated licensing these days!)</p>
<p>Undercar lighting (innit tho bruv)</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’ve ever been more confused by a topic on CC. Do people seriously look at others driving cars and think about where it came from? If I saw a college student driving a Ferrari or something I might wonder but anything less than that, I wouldn’t even think about it.</p>
<p>If you get people to both wonder and think it’s yours, then they’ll assume you’re a drug dealer.</p>
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<p>And for what it’s worth, when I see someone under 25 driving a Lexus I usually assume it came from the parents or that an irresponsible person bought a used car that has repair costs that are unnecessarily high because they want to impress people and live some lifestyle they saw in a rappers music video.</p>
<p>“Do people seriously look at others driving cars and think about where it came from?”</p>
<p>I sometimes wonder when I see a kid driving in a new BMW 3 series, but I don’t really care. If your family can afford a car like that then more power to ya.</p>
<p>OP, you’d be better off just being a humble, nice person. The people worth keeping will know what kind of person you are and not judge you by the brand of your car, and the people not worth a modicum of your attention will think “oh he’s a spoiled jerk” and not talk to you.</p>
<p>The more beat up the better.</p>
<p>TheMortalSoil- Lexus repair costs tend to be much lower than repair costs for other luxury cars since they’re similar to toyotas (toyotas are usually very reliable and always have easy to get parts); this is especially true for my specific lexus model.</p>
<p>Maybe no one can tell the difference between your car and a Camry.</p>
<p>Hmmm… To the person who thinks Lexus repair costs are high, no they’re not. Lexus cars are built by Toyota, and they’re even more painstaking about quality and reliability than their regular cars. Plus, Lexus uses more RWD configurations than Toyota, which is often a bit more reliable than FWD since the engine is normally larger (doesn’t have to work as hard) and the transmission will often have another gear since it doesn’t have to fit under the hood (lower RPM, better MPG and reliability).</p>
<p>To the person who wonders about 3-series owners, one of my friends is 20 and he just bought a 2011 335i with money from working. They’re really not that expensive. Sure, he saved for like 2-3 years, but there are people that buy themselves. Older BMWs are quite cheap though. E46, E36, and E30 generations are all under 10,000 dollars to get a good car. You could even get an E36 M3 for that price.</p>
<p>Though for sure, if I see an F30 driven by someone who is obviously no older than 18/19 I think to myself “Daddy’s giving you a bit too much money, isn’t he?”</p>
<p>A 2006 Lexus though? Especially if it’s an IS, I don’t automatically think it’s their parent’s car. You shouldn’t feel the need to put bumper stickers on your car to make it look like a young person drives it. You may not be driving a Honda Civic (which is almost always a young person’s), but you’re not driving a Bentley or Rolls Royce (never seen a young person driving one, and if I did I’d think they’re a servant getting their employer’s car washed).</p>
<p>He’s 20 and just bought a new BMW 3 series? Just a Down payment or actually bought it? Because IF a 20 year old can save up $30k in 2 years at that age then he’s either doing something illegal or his parents are helping him in some kind of way, shape or form. Seriously, what does he do?</p>
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<p>So quick to jump to conclusions. </p>
<p>A solid internship can pull in $10k in one summer pre-taxes. Combine that with work study jobs while at school, that’s just more money.</p>
<p>If you sacrifice your winter break to work, there’s even more money.</p>
<p>I’m 21 and own my own car, a Camry. Bought it at $23k. All I did was work. I’m currently a consultant at an investment firm, and as a consequence, have no winter break while the majority of my peers are enjoying their last undergraduate winter break.</p>
<p>As above. He’s an assistant manager (or something like that) at his family’s fairly successful restaurant. He’s been working there since he was pretty young. He doesn’t have much expenses (eats nearly for free at the restaurant, lives with parents, doesn’t date much) so he gets to spend his money on what he wants.</p>
<p>The most common career for young “self-made” car-owners is military, I’d say. They don’t have much expenses (paid for food, shelter, etc.) so it’s not uncommon to see them driving recent paid for cars with a good deal of money in them.</p>
<p>I’ve never seen a thread that so exemplified rich kid problems</p>
<p>This is a problem that I really wish I had. My problems extend more to the realm of how I’m even going to get to school, or buy groceries for the week. I’m basically living off of ramen noodles and mac and cheese (plus a single frozen pizza for this weekend) for the next couple weeks because I had to spend a bunch of money on text books a couple days ago. I don’t have a car, my parents are basically in debt up to their eye balls, and wouldn’t even buy me a car if they weren’t. For that matter though, I wouldn’t even expect or want them to buy me a car. I’m also 26 now though, so I’m a bit past that point anyway. I’ve had a few cars in my life, all purchased with my own money…the most I EVER paid for any of them was $750…and it was a POS…I had to learn how to work on cars just to keep it running because I couldn’t afford to pay someone else to fix it. You say that your used 06 Lexus is nothing special, but I know a lot of people that would kill to have a car that nice.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to whine or berate you or anything…but don’t worry so much about what other people think. Be proud that you’ve come from a family that is successful enough to help you out that much. There are people out there with much bigger problems than this.</p>
<p>What about a “You Only Live Once” bumper sticker?</p>