Sometimes it's better to not have a car than to have some piece of stuff you have to dump $2000 into every month.
the thing about pleb tier Toyotas is that this is not the case, I bought it for 500, drove it for a year and my total maintenance cost was 125$ for a distributor, wires, plugs, and front brake shoes, I did the calculations. I drove it 10,000 miles in a year, from 284,326 to 294,800 if I paid 500 did maintenance of ~125 and got 20 mpg at an average gas cost of 2.00 a gallon I paid $4.40 a day to drive my car for the last year
edit: if you add insurance which was 50 a month bundled (which my dad paid for because it was bundled) it brings it to $6.04 a day, still not bad