You can explore the data yourself, but the general trend is that it appears there have been real improvements in crash fatality rates. Better designed structure, more and better airbags, stability control, and now in some new vehicles automatic emergency braking is standard.
Generally a bigger vehicle like a minivan is safer, and a newer version of that minivan will be safer, but you just have to go with what you can afford.
Main risk is simply that at this price point that minivan is going to have a lot of miles, and it’s simply probability how long it will run until a very expensive major repair is needed. One strategy is to plan to junk the vehicle and get a similar ‘beater’ vehicle when the present one fails.
If you’re so price sensitive $1000 is meaningful, well, uh try to find a solution to this crisis. I’m not saying one exists, but there are survival risks to poverty.
If you’re so price sensitive $1000 is meaningful, well, uh try to find a solution to this crisis. I’m not saying one exists, but there are survival risks to poverty.
Lol. I’m not impoverished, but I want to cheaply experiment with having a car. It isn’t worth it to spend throw away $30,000 on a thing that I’m not going to get much value from.
Ok but at the price point you are talking you are not going to have a good time.
Analogy: would you “experiment with having a computer” by grabbing a packard bell from the 1990s and putting an ethernet card in it so it can connect to the internet from windows 95?
Do you need the minivan form factor? As a vehicle in decent condition (6-10 years old, under 100k miles, from a reputable brand) is cheapest in the small car form factor.
Not spending $30,000 makes sense, but my impression from car shopping last year was that trying to get a good car for less than $7k was fairly hard. (I get the ‘willingness to eat the cost’ price point of $1k, but wanted to highlight that the next price point up was more like 10k than 30k.)
Depending on your experimentation goals, you might want to rent a a car rather than buy.
There are. https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-model
You can explore the data yourself, but the general trend is that it appears there have been real improvements in crash fatality rates. Better designed structure, more and better airbags, stability control, and now in some new vehicles automatic emergency braking is standard.
Generally a bigger vehicle like a minivan is safer, and a newer version of that minivan will be safer, but you just have to go with what you can afford.
Main risk is simply that at this price point that minivan is going to have a lot of miles, and it’s simply probability how long it will run until a very expensive major repair is needed. One strategy is to plan to junk the vehicle and get a similar ‘beater’ vehicle when the present one fails.
If you’re so price sensitive $1000 is meaningful, well, uh try to find a solution to this crisis. I’m not saying one exists, but there are survival risks to poverty.
Lol. I’m not impoverished, but I want to cheaply experiment with having a car. It isn’t worth it to spend throw away $30,000 on a thing that I’m not going to get much value from.
Ok but at the price point you are talking you are not going to have a good time.
Analogy: would you “experiment with having a computer” by grabbing a packard bell from the 1990s and putting an ethernet card in it so it can connect to the internet from windows 95?
Do you need the minivan form factor? As a vehicle in decent condition (6-10 years old, under 100k miles, from a reputable brand) is cheapest in the small car form factor.
Not spending $30,000 makes sense, but my impression from car shopping last year was that trying to get a good car for less than $7k was fairly hard. (I get the ‘willingness to eat the cost’ price point of $1k, but wanted to highlight that the next price point up was more like 10k than 30k.)
Depending on your experimentation goals, you might want to rent a a car rather than buy.