What's the cheapest car that "just werks"?

Lada Riva

Yaris

Lada fuckin niva. 7000€ new

Corolla, Civic, Mazda3 are all incredibly reliable. For my money, if get the Mazda. But those are all around $20000 (USD).

A Ford Fiesta has a bad reputation for reliability, but almost every failure is attributable to the auto transmission. Get a manual and 95% of the reliability issues go away. You can sometimes find a stripped out, no options, Fiesta for close to $13000 (USD) with incentives. That's a steal for a new car that drives halfway decent.

One that haven't been preowned by a woman or a nigger

get a base model fiesta hatchback for 13k, full warranty and all, will be dead reliable and even if something goes wrong youll just take it to the dealer.
much better than buying a 3k civic that has had 12 owners and looks, smells, drives like shit

tercel

Soviet shit.

Civic, or Kia.

Opel/Holden/Vauxhall/whatever Astra

MX-5 Miata. /thread

>buy used nb for $2k
>millions of parts available for dirt cheap
>literally full engine+tranny standalones available for $500
>cheap to insure
>cheap as fuck to maintain
>works no matter what

Corolla, avoid hills.

VW Beetle. Air cooled, easy to maintain and fix, can be driven on bad roads.

They're so fucking goat

sleep tight za

golf/passat diesel

$500 will get you one of these glorious bastards, and $1000 will get you one with less than 100k miles. Oh yeah, and the body panels are plastic and the bumpers are damn near indestructible.

All good-tier except the Metro and Cavalier.