Cars For Teens? What do you think?

What would be a good car for a teen? Sometimes I hear big cars for a example the Ford Crown Victoria: Then you would hear of a smaller compact cars so what do you think is a good pick?

One thing to keep in mind is that:
Very expensive insurance, "assigned risk", is normal for any driver without 3 years of insurance history. It's three times as expensive as normal.
3 years of being on an auto policy, (no big accident) helps a lot.
You get out of the "Assigned Risk" category.
Then over 25 years old, rates drop down to normal.
Being on your parents insurance as an occasional driver for 3 years creates insurance history. (That would be true even if you seldom drove your parent's car).
For a car in your own name:
Having a cheap, replaceable car for the first 3 years, would make it unnecessary to pay for collision insurance, on top of the state mandatory liability insurance.
Like a $3000 car plus if needed, new tires and brakes, battery tune up…
With no collision insurance, if you crash, you must fix it or replace it yourself, unless you get hit in the rear, for example, then the other driver's insurance must fix your car.
3 years of no collision insurance can save about $3000. Check the rates.
Any car bought with a loan requires this expensive collision insurance to protect the bank's investment.
And ANY expensive car should have collision coverage. Then no matter how it gets damaged the insurance company has to fix it or replace it.

Depend on the cash you got the gaz. If you're full of it, I'd go medium size car.

Obviously something that gets really good fuel mileage. As far as size, something mid-size would be good as it will give good economy and be safer in a collision.

I'm 17, i have a 2000 Honda civic. It's great on gas and insurance doesn't cost that much.