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Um well it kinda depends if you want american or not. My first car was a '92 suzuki swift. It was real cheap to buy, get plated, and good on gas. But it was a bit of a tin bucket probably not the best in an accident.
My brother LOVED his first car, it was an '84 or 85 Honda Civic. It was his tank!!! That was a great car!! He bought it for $800 canadian and it was cheap on gas and plates were cheap. It was a quick car (slightly important too me sweatdrop ) and it was a standard. Plus they are a dime a dozen so it makes them cheap and easy to fix if they do break......which they don't very often.....unless of course you crash it!! But all Civic's are good really!

I highlight my suggestions.....i can be a bit of a windbag sometimes..... sweatdrop

I don't know what civic's look like in the UK but they aren't really big....in my mind anyways. I guess i'm a little more used to things like big honkin' 1 ton pick up trucks with duel axels (i live in a slightly farmer like area) so civics seem small. But Volkwagen are really good. My brother had a jetta and it was a good car but i think his had a few flaws.

It's this, a 1993 Acura Vigor GS. It's got the one and only Honda G25 engine in it, which is a 2.5L inline 5-cylinder engine producing 173 brake horsepower. It's got leather interior, air conditioning, antilock brakes, an anti-theft system, electric locks, windows, and sunshine roof. With 159,000 miles on the milometer, and celebrating the fact that it is indeed only one of about 32,000 produced during a three-year run here in the States, I purchased it for the humble sum of $850.

However, there are a few problems with it that I can tell right from the get-go. All of the seals on the top of the engine need to be replaced, namely the valve cover gasket, distributor o-ring, distributor seal spark plug tube seals and the grommets for the bolts that hold the valve cover down. Other than that it needs a rear brake caliper for the passenger side, a new door lock actuator switch for the driver's side, an interior front door handle assembly for the passenger side, all the exhaust piping from the catalytic converter back, a replacement windscreen washer for the bonnet (it's not that one doesn't work, it's just...not there), and some body work on the passenger side. That's probably going to be last on my list, because it is typical Honda fare, even though it looks rather cancerous.

Another issue I've discovered is that the metal underneath the lining in the boot has gone soft, as though as though someone ripped the spare tyre and the mount completely out of the metal, in which case I shall most likely cut a hole the size of the exposed metal and grind it down, allowing any moisture to just drain out.

Currently the car isn't running because it's completely apart and probably will be until I get all the spare parts in, but once the engine is out of the way I shall focus on the other big issue, that being the exhaust. I'd rather not die of asphyxia.

Oh, the one thing that I have done to it so far is get new tyres, since the ones that had been on the car were in a bad way. Granted, I did buy used tyres rather than new ones, but the ones I found were four barely-used Cyclone HP259s off an Audi that cost me, in total, less than I would've paid had I purchased two new ones.