Hello dear forum user, short to me: I am 18 years old and student in the 2nd semester. I now own my driver’s license for more than a year and slowly it is not enough for me to get the car of the parents only from time to time on the weekend. I need to use public transport about 1h to university, my friend also lives 1h away from me, so that I spend about 3h on “slim” days in buses and trains. I have also thought for some time about cheaper alternatives to the car, however, scooters are just too dangerous and too weather-dependent. So now I am just about to inform myself about cars to be financed as cheaply as possible and have stuck with the (new) Ford KA (for alternatives I am also open). My parents and grandparents thought that they would pay me a car, but the running costs (sprit, insurance, taxes) could not afford to pay me the whole time of my life. (I have to say that my parents own 2 cars and now the 3rd in the family would come to this. ) That means that I would be able to make my purchase of my car again. In addition, I would have to have to have to save my money. I have to pay for my life.