What would be a good first car?
As a fairly cheap college student, I was fortunate to have an apartment roommate who was a mechanic. He recommended make and model and year, which I found and bought. I still remember the price $1,119 in 1973 for a 1971 Datsun 510. I think the payment was about $56/mo. Affordable even for me working part-time as a janitor. Absolutely a great car, drove it for years and years until parts were falling off from Michigan road salt. Not recommending Datsun (now Nissan) recommending mechanic roommates.