Is Toyota Corolla really worth as a first car?

I'm an 18 year old guy, soon to be looking into a first car, and my sister drives a 2001 Corolla. Her car is many, many problems and is causing her and my dad a lot of money for fixing. She only drives her car to a train station about 10 mins away from our house, and she takes the train to work. So she doesn't drive the car enough for it to depreciate quickly.

A Honda is definitely not an option for a first car because they are one of the most expensive cars to insure according to my insurance company as a result of their safety crash test ratings and so on. Corolla is too, but I can have my dad pay for half he insurance until I get a car that's cheap to insure.

Added (1). @Anne. I thank you for your response to my question. You do have a point indeed. Any car that is that old will eventually depreciate. My cousin told me that BMWs are cheaper to insure than both Honda and Toyota, because some of them drive BMWs and are mechanic, they know alot about carss. And they are, however, Although they encourage me to drive BMW as well because of its safety and reliability, I'm looking into something that's cheaper to insure, reliable and safe. And affordable.

You do realize that a 2001 Corolla is almost a 16 year old car, right? ANY car this age has the potential for many problems due to it's age. I had a 2001 Corolla that I drove until 2 years ago with maintenance only. It had 150,000 miles on it and eventually the costly items wore out. Charcoal canister, it needed new struts ($3600) and then I drove through a puddle and damaged the catalytic converter ($2500) so I got rid of it. You could get a newer model Corolla and it will last you a good number of years. And any car is going to be expensive to insure when you are an 18 year old male.