Great site! I bought this car to save a few dollars. It's my $150 Ford Escort and the only new parts I've bought for it are oil and the exhaust manifold gasket.
$350 as she sits:
I bought it because we have to bring our kids to school this fall and it's 60 miles a day (30 miles round trip twice). It will get about twice the mileage of our V8 Explorer.
After 4 tanks of gas and fixing all sorts of things it's getting 30.8 combined mpg.