First car for teenager

In reply to Mr_Clutch42:

The do make automatic Miatas

These are you best tools, use this to find a car and the latter to decide:

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/04/the-best-used-vehicles-for-under-20-000/index.htm?userWantsFull=true

http://www.edmunds.com/tco.html

In reply to curtis73:

One of mine drives a Bullitt Mustang, and the other a Miata, so I might not be a good one to ask.
Seriously though, the ONLY reason my kids aren't driving the slowest, most boring car in existence, is first that we sent them to an extraordinarily good driving school where they excelled, they've both been autocrossing since they were 13 yrs old, and they went 3 years without any incidents before I awarded them by buying those two cars. They also haven't had any problems in the year that they've been driving these cars. The key is good training and dicipline, not a tank of a car. Teach to avoid problems, not survive them. Just my opinion.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/07/consumer-reports-cars-over-200000-miles/70956532/

Scion TC.

Stealthtercel wrote: For a girl who's "not really a driver," the very first box to check off on my list would be stability control. FWIW, I believe that excludes the (otherwise ideal) GM W-bodies until the 07s or so, when it was optional on the Impala.

Just an FYI, my 05 Grand Prix had GM's StabiliTrack plus.

In reply to JohnRW1621: I was being sarcastic. It's one of the few cars you can look up in Autotrader, etc. and find more manuals listed than autos.

Volvo 240 with the radio removed.