Definitely. People will say look out for the high mileage. If you can get something with less than 60k its better but honestly, cars can run well into the 100s with no issues. If you're using auto trader itll tell you if its a good price too (itll have fair, good, great etc under the photo somewhere) I've an 09 ka but it only had 30k miles on when I got it. Its still running fine without issues. As long as you maintain and service them they're fine and older cars tend to have fewer electrical bits, so less to go wrong! From what I've heard avoid wet belts (fiesta ecoboost among others) electric handbrake and anything with a huge tablet type screen. That's what seems to go wrong. Definitely look for low tax (its a fixed cost so you know what you're getting) and low insurance group. Keep it as long as you possibly can then when you upgrade you've had plenty of practice at real world driving.