What's a good car with a $5000 budget?

I don't know too much about cars even though my father is a mechanic. 19 year old guy with only 5000 for my first car. I like Honda's, BMW's, even Rx8's but I'm skeptical about picking a car. What are goods and bads about said cars? Any suggestions on specific cars that are reliable, hardly give problems, and look decent? Please and thank you in advance.

Auto or manual maintenance - which works better?

Hi
when it comes to repair and maintenance of a transmission. Which works cheaper
is it manual or automatic… And why
lets take the case of honda city ivtech - that comes in both manual and automatic transmission.

Is it fair i'm charged with assault?

I was in a fight in a parking lot after some kid pulled in and tapped my car Accidentaly. No damage was done but he was on his phone. I got out very angry and he got out saying sorry sir, I said I'll put his phone up his a$$ and he just said ok, I said I'll knock him out and he said "ull knock me out?", I said you don't know who you are messing with, he said "well i'm pretty tough too", I swung at him and hit his eye, he then hit me and we went at it, i'm a former spec ops in military, also I weighed more and was about an inch taller at 6'2, he started choking me and I smashed his head into his car. A 5'10 slim grey haired italian american in his early 60s(report says he was born in March 1951) pulled me off telling me to stop hitting the kid and had help when two other men and a girl ran over, the wop had a baseball bat in his Honda that he brought out, he kept saying "your a bully! Get away from him now! I will do what I need to protect him", found out he was a retired nurse( and was assisting the kid until cops and emt arrived. He was Dutch descent aged 26(born 1989), looked younger, had a very pretty face, he looked like a movie star with chiseled model face structure ice blue eyes brown hair, not no more Tho). I found out he has a disability Asperger's which affects cordination and common sense. I'm now being charged under a law in NY state for attacking someone with a disability. I got in his face and he got in mine. He looked like he was gonna cry.

Added (1). The judge is going extra hard on me and treating me like trailer white trash. My Fam is very american(been here since pilgrims, grew up in west virginia and Ohio). I was defending me, my car. How dare pretty skinny boy drive on a phone? I was justified he said he was tough so I wanted to see.

Added (2). Also his girlfriend is sexy she came into court and basically called me mentally unstable. Pretty sure that's her boyfriend not me

What car should I get for a first car? - 1

So, these are my option.s I'm 18, just getting my G2 in a few weeks and these are my options.

- BMW
- Toyota
- Volvo

I feel Toyotas are not safe based off the stories I have heard. Honda is the same thing. This guy I met at my cousin's auto repair shop, told me that he was once in a Honda, and some driver accidentally hit the car somewhere and he flew out of the window. My dad now drives Toyota Corolla, and he told me he once had a Volkswagen, and when he was parking it in a public mall parking lot or wherever, he hit the front bumper of the car really hard and he thought his bumper was garbage. He goes outside to check, and he sees a small scratch on the car. Volvo, I don't know how they are whatsoever, they seem like really safe cars though.

My cousin who is a mechanic, drives a lot of BMWs, He buys them, and sells them, and does all kinds of selling and buying with BMWs. He says BMWs are his favorite in terms of reliability and such.

Any ideas as to what I should get?