Smart Fortwo CDI Cost/purchase advice

Hello, my mother has decided to make a driver’s license, but with an automatic vehicle. We were at the traffic training area and it works pretty well, better than I expected, although she is a little older. Soon she is finished and we want to buy a smart car directly, maybe. I have been busy with various used cars, but there is almost no used car, which is as cheap as a smart and above all maintenance arm! I am interested in both gasoline and diesel models. Most used cars, which I have chosen and which should be cheap, often have higher costs than the smart, speak spare parts, timing belts etc. The smart has simply fewer components and is of course from Mercedes. So I am a test driver and must say that I find the car not so bad at all. The smart from my neighbor has now run 300,000 km and is still relatively good, other cars would fail there long. Question to you, is the smart CDI really robust and then he drives many KM? I am a screwer and would like to buy a cheap ticket himself. What do you pay for a CDI for a lot of fuel?