She's best off with something small, safe and relatively cheap. If your budget for the car is £6000, you should probably allow £2000 for the first year of insurance (though it may not be as much as that, depending on where you live etc). Start off looking at these - most should be within your budget: www.honestjohn.co.uk/topten/cars-that-are-group-on...e

Here's a tip for getting insurance down: put yourself and/or other older family members down as named drivers, even if they don't plan to drive the car. It'll spread the risk to the insurer and - in theory - bring down the premium.