How much was the cheapest car you bought and how long did you have it?

Most of the cheap Impalas around me are in pretty rough shape.
I'm looking at a 97 Century, same basic platform as the Lumina but nicer trim.
There's also a bog-standard 93 Taurus with the base model 3 liter and less than 150k on it for $1000. Could probably talk him down a bit because the ad's been up for a while.

First car I started driving around was a 2001 Xterra. I didn’t own it. It belonged to my dad but he would let me borrow it. First car I owned was a 2008 Saab 9-3 Aero. Still drive it today and I’m under 80k miles with it so far. Planning on keeping it permanently.

Bought a 1989 MK2 Golf for 200€. Drove it for about a year and put 10k km on it. That thing never broke down, it only needed a little bit of oil every 2k km.

Audi A3 1.6 1999.
Paid 400$ and had it for one year, then sold it for 1000$

Swift for $275 in 2010
>Still going

in burger money, $650, had it for a year. i had to replace suspension, gearbox, and many less important things. i still have it, trying to sell it for ~$1200, but i'll go down if needed.

I won't miss it. It was my first car and i obviously have lots of related nostalgia, but god it was terrible. gearbox lever was just flying around (it wasn't gearbox fault or anything, just this is how this car works), clutch wasn't much better either, it was fogging inside no matter what i did (opening rear windows was helping a bit though), suspension was stupidly soft, it had weak (75HP) engine and 1100kg of weight. the good thing is that i've learned to never care about "functionality" or "practicality" stuff, getting a car you actually like is incredibly important. i will never prioritize mileage again.