You can buy my beamer off of me if you want. I'll take $1600 for it.
Immaculate interior, some body rust, nothing too extensive, engine is still strong and smooth and still PULLS (it has 248,000 miles on it). It even has a CD player with funky, cool blue lights. It gets 32 MPG on the motorway.
Or maybe not, it is a little gem. But maybe you should be looking at soemthing like that.
Ooo, try and get an AE86 chassis Toyota Corolla. They come with all of 100hp, but they will teach you how to drive a car properly. Or a 1st gen RX-7. The beauty of these cars is they can be found cheap, and if something breaks, any trip to any junkyard will yield lots of junkers to pick up spare parts from.