Looking for a small car for around the $2000-@2500 range

My 19 year old son is in need of his first car to get to work and to college classes this next school year. He has cash and it doesn't have to be perfect but it does need to be in decent shape. An absolute must is that it is a smaller car, no trucks. He can spend $2000 to around $2500 give or take a hundred with no transmission problems. If you have something that we might be interested in, send me a pm or reply to this thread.

Thanks.

One more thing, no standards, it must be an automatic transmission.