No. It's way too fast and fun for a first car. If I had started with a gt86 as a teenager, I would have totaled the car within a year. Learn to drive first with a low power car (~60-100 hp) and once you have some years of experience in reacting to difficult real-life situations on the street, go for a sports car. 11. Bought one for my son in 2016. First and last time I will ever buy a Ford. Complete piece of crap with stupid engineering that makes self maintenance far more complicated than it needs to be. Electrical issues with AC, Airbag Sensors, and the Transmission ongoing lawsuit. Get a Yaris, Accent, or Rio. If seriously considering any used car, be sure to get a pre-purchase inspection before making any decisions. You've done good by avoiding the automatic, but the next step is to make sure the car is as they say it is and get it inspected. If it checks out, then that's a pretty good deal. But it does seem suspiciously low to me. Yeah it’s got some inherent problem, but the price of admission is definitely worth the ride. Buy one, and you will really enjoy it. Buy one, get a Cobb Accessport, a Dizzy stage one tune, and you will love it. Any day I get to drive my car is a good day. Check out WhooshMotorsports.com, they have everything these cars need. If you buy 65,000 miles. Set at $19,000. IdealDesperate2732 • 10 mo. ago. ok, but that doesn't answer my question since that is a much, much worse deal than the one OP proposed and you seem to be saying the opposite. New-Teaching-348 • 7 mo. ago. Chevy isn't great at making small commuter cars, but the Sonic is decent. They're a good value, and while my knowledge on them isn't exhaustive, their reliability is OK and when they do break down (as a Chevy its a possibility) they aren't terribly expensive to fix. There are other small cars that are either more fun to drive (VW Golf), more I drive a Ford Fiesta, and I love it! It's a great, fuel efficient, and extremely maneuverable car. I'm driving the manual, though. I've heard bad things about the Fiesta automatic. The gearboxes can have problems, and many have harsh shifts due to the dry clutch packs they use. Front end looks good up close, as too does the interior. Not a fan of full LCD dashboards in any car honestly, nor big infotainment screens. Physical needles only, or LED displays in some cases. That's why I'm fond of my 2014. Needles for rpm and speed, little led matrix display for trip, fuel and temp. Nice n simple, not cluttered. Yesterday, I was shopping for a car and found a used 2012 Ford Fiesta at a local dealership. Low mileage for its age (30k) and in extremely nice condition, basically no visible wear-and-tear, $8300. I took it for a test drive and was impressed with the tight handling, and didn't notice anything particularly problematic. In my experience the most reliable motors have been the 2.0 na, 2.5 na, 3.5/3.7na, 4.6 2v or 4v, the 3v has some weird issues, the 5.4 is great if it doesn’t have variable cam timing, and has already been switched to a different style of spark plug. The 4.0v6, and the 5.0 coyote. 7UtmjwS.