As a student, you need your car to handle a few essential tasks. It should be able to haul sports gear, get student-budget-ready gas milage, be reliable enough to avoid costly repairs, have a solid safety rating, and still stand apart from the rest of the crowd. Sure, you could just pick up a Corolla or Civic, but there are way less boring cars to have for not too much money.
To mark the end of summer and the start of a new school year, we’ve picked out 13 new and used cars that hit all those marks, a few of which have some sly tech to keep students from driving like hellions.
