Honda Fit, OR you can buy a CPO VW TDI for around $10k. They have a 2 year bumper to bumper warranty plus 4 years on basically everything emissions/engine related.
There's a whole mess of them under $10k at Lindsay where we bought ours - https://www.lindsayvolkswagen.com/used-v...erby=price
Its not super fun to drive but you can get them with 3-pedals if thats your thing which does make it a litle more tolerable and they should run reliably for a looooong time. I cant think of anything else that fits what you need at that price, and bonus, lots of warranty.
We've got a bout 3k miles on the 2015 Golf TDI SEL we bought and no problems, got 50mpg on the last trip to Richmond and back. I kept thinking the range on the dash was wrong and something was broken. "No way this thing goes 600 miles on 12 gallons"
There's a whole mess of them under $10k at Lindsay where we bought ours - https://www.lindsayvolkswagen.com/used-v...erby=price
Its not super fun to drive but you can get them with 3-pedals if thats your thing which does make it a litle more tolerable and they should run reliably for a looooong time. I cant think of anything else that fits what you need at that price, and bonus, lots of warranty.
We've got a bout 3k miles on the 2015 Golf TDI SEL we bought and no problems, got 50mpg on the last trip to Richmond and back. I kept thinking the range on the dash was wrong and something was broken. "No way this thing goes 600 miles on 12 gallons"