When you're looking for a beater, you have to be looking for things that aren't easy to find. Walking onto a car lot, whether it be Beater World, another more inferior car lot, or even on a new car dealer's used car lot, is very distracting. Streamers, balloons, plastic flags, wide ties, loudly checked sport coats, and Brylcream might cause you to not know what you came there for. While you stew in this soupy fog of Used Car Land, you may ask yourself, "how did I get here?" The answer is simple. You need a car. You need that car to get you places. You need that car to not drain your life savings. That's why you're on the USED car lot. And here's a few* reliable, dependable cars you might want to look for:

1995-2001 Chevrolet Lumina: Comfortable, economical, cheap and plentiful GM parts, and all the room you need.

1993-1997 Dodge Intrepid (and Chrysler Concorde) with the 3.3L engine: Same as above but in Chrysler form

more to come...I'm late for work...