Are stick shifts good for 16 year old?

My husband is getting stick shift car for my 16 year old son, the car is called 2015 ford mustang gt.

Cool story.

I'm sure your parents aren't that foolish. And, I'm sure your mom would have MUCH better grammar, unless she was raised in the Appalachians.

Your husband wanted a Mustang when he was a kid, instead of a bleah safe car.
Your kid has a 25% of a collision the first year, just about a guaranteed collision in the first five years.
Having a fast sporty car increases the odds of having a collision.

I love stick shifts and my cousin has a truck that he loves. You should buy what he is used to. So if he is into trucks then you should buy him it. Make sure he already knows how to use the stick shift. It's just my opinion but I think you should buy him one. Yes stick shifts are great for a 16 year old.

That car has over 400 horsepower and a top speed above 150 MPH and will be very dangerous for a 16 year old. Your insurance company might not cover him in something like that or the rates will be horrendous. Buy him a reliable used 4 cylinder car with a stick shift

Stick shifts are fine, Mustang GTs are not, at least not ones that powerful.

I'd suggest a Miata if he's dead set on a sports car. Cheaper on everything, drop top for cruising, fun to drive, enough power for the car, but not enough to get in any real trouble long as he can handle a car.

Stick shifts are fine for any age that can drive a car, that said it's significantly easier to damage the transmission by, say, braking without either clutching out or shifting into neutral. I wouldn't recommend a Mustang GT as his first car just in case he screws up and wrecks the transmission on it while still in an earlier stage of learning stick.

If your husbando does get the car for your son then he needs to teach him properly how to drive stick. The best place to teach someone, IMO is in an empty parking lot. The hardest part of learning stick can be taught with low-speed maneuvers only, like shifting into first, shifting into second, and downshifting (rev matching) which can all be taught at low speeds.

I'm sure your son will enjoy driving manual. I know I do. It just makes cars so much more fun to drive.

Sure. I learned on a stick shift at 16, and so did my daughter.
I don't recommend a sports car though.

Stick shift (manual transmission)? Sure!

It was good enough for me, 45 years ago.

Mustang GT? Zoom!

It's a fine car for a responsibile adult. A 16 year old, unfortunately, is not a responsible adult. Insurance that covers such a teenager in that car will be expensive! If your husband buys and insures the car in his own name, your son will be an excluded driver.

A stick shift VW would be a different story.

Wrong move getting that car for a 16 year old. One insurance alone will be through the roof. If he's never driven a stick or a car like that. Tell him to get a older car let him practice on that then get a mustang later

Buying a 16 year old a high powered muscle car is like signing his death certificate. Your baby boy who is just learning how to drive can't handle the power of a car like this and in all likelihood he will have an accident and pray to GOD he doesn't kill himself (or some else)

You husband is not thinking logically. Talk him out of this terrible decision.

Look at the facts. Young boys who are inexperinc d drivers behind the wheel of a powerful sports car is a recipe for disaster. Don't do it.