I'm currently trying to convince him to buy a geo metro, learn how drive stick, and learn to fix it himself. Literally, for $2,000 in car and $1000 in tools, he could have a car that's cheap to repair and he could teach himself how to fix a car which is a life's worth of knowledge. But not everyone is a car person, so we'll see how it goes.
Hopefully we have a future ecomodder on our hands