Generally best to learn initial landing technique in someone else’s airplane, ideally an old “iron” Cessna or Piper that has been through the wringer with many students.
When I sought out and found the plane I first soloed in almost 60 years ago, I could feel it looking at me and saying, “OMG, not him again”.
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I did my PPL in a 172 and recently transitioned to an SR22. I am glad I did it in a 172 - much more forgiving, much cheaper so you can go up more, much slower so you have time to process things. And the autopilot never worked so I had to actually fly the plane.
I have my doubts about your sweetheart deal on a cirrus, namely because eventually you wont have access to it and if you want to change schools / instructors you’ll be stuck paying the difference.
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My wife, the captain did her PPL in a 172 ( even though we owned a 22 Turbo)with one of the Kings old instructors . She didn’t like it very much. When she was asked if she was doing her instrument in the 72. She said,” are you crazy, I’d never fly in that plane if , I couldn’t see the ground “. She did her instrument in an SR20. It prepared her to transition into the SR22TN, and eventually the Eclipse.
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Expensive date. I’ll bet she drinks expensive wine as well! 
Cheers Mike.
Michael
I am currently pursuing my PPL and doing all my training in a G6 SR20.
It’s significantly more expensive than the 172, but I made the decision to do it because I plan to buy a SR after completing my training. I thought that doing everything in the airframe I plan to fly was ultimately going to make me a safer low-time pilot and give me an advantage on my instrument training when the time comes.
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Your insurance company will like it.
That’s why we have a 
wine cellar
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I did the first half of my flight training in rental SR20’s and then bought an SR22T to finish my training. I just passed my PPL checkride in it last week. I did it that way because I am 57 years old and my flight years are probably limited and its what I wanted to fly and enjoyed flying.
If you are really concerned with keeping things inexpensive, I probably wouldn’t consider flying a Cirrus at all. Otherwise, I would highly recommenbd training in a Cirrus. On to my instrument rating now.
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It definitely will help with your instrument rating. I got my PPL in a G6 SR20. Definitely took more hours to get my PPL. IFR training I jumped right into and has been going really well. My 22T G7 shows up in 8 weeks. I plan to finish out my IFR in the SR20 rather than switch avionics stacks right at the end of training.
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If the cost is not an issue then it makes sense.
I did all of my PPL and instrument in a cirrus. I think it was probably harder due to the speeds compared to a Diamond DA20 but if that’s all you train in you don’t know any different.
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