Newbie’s looking for something Japanese

Hello people, in advance: please move the thread, if it is at the wrong place, don’t know me here yet and my question is more general, than especially to Nissan. So I’m 18 years old and hopefully will soon make my driver’s license, if I find the time to do so, make me think about the first car. In addition, I want to live out my “Japan car fetish” and learn to make something. I don’t have a budget, because there is the possibility that me in father sells his Renault Megane and we then share the “new” car. However, I prefer to stay independent and therefore buy something cheap. For me it means cheaply around 3000 €. That would be my budget then, after all, I want to leave something for the “individualization”. I would like to have a Nissan S13 200sx or maybe a Subaru gc8, but both are over 15 years old. It is hard to explain, but I have the problem that I z I’m sure that the safety is miserable from such old cars, I hope I’m wrong. What about reality? Would it be better if I bought a Golf 5 for example? Had I thought that I would buy a “first car” and, by the way, an unregistered Japanese cart to screw. Or would I be overthrew with costs? Find such information nowhere on the net and would be very grateful if you would inform me about the “reality”. LG