The van would be my choice for a bachelor. One good thing about a cheap car is that if you buy it outright (no loan) you only need liability insurance (actually, having collision/comprehensive is not worth it). To help with gas prices, but a BL-assisted system on there for take-offs/acceleration.
Glad to see they still sell cars that cheap aroun here LOL, Wife might have to be giving back the comany car and didnt account for that, That jeep is nice I have 1 like it sitting in my driveway I got in a trade, 4.0 (i think) but its an inline 6 (that didnt specify), the wrench heads around here said thats the motor to get, will run forever and easy to fix, always cheap jeep parts. But that van is the pimp mobile and crash pad in 1.