I didn’t know how to drive and I was thinking of buying a car... yeah I learned from a driving school and started collecting information as to what car to buy. Almost everybody suggested me for a second hand maruti 800 as a first car.
I too agree... this is small and much easy to handle, no maintenance and comes cheap...4 person can easily and comfortable travel with this and 5 after a bit squeeze to rear three.
Very good car I even drove till 95 KMPH and it was a smooth ride (I am having radial tyres)...
I will definitely suggest to everybody who want to drive own car just to avoid the pain that he might have just because of simple mistake of putting leg on accelerator instead of breaks while taking reverse ;-)...
Also to small families and low budget want to be car owners...
also to people like me who drive in small cities where roads are congested and big cars are headache than comfort.