[lm28469]

Compare what's comparable... a top of the line watch cost 50k+ so cars are all cheap I guess ?

In 1990 you could buy a Golf GTI for 77k french francs, which is 19000 euros today. And that was the best golf money could buy.

Today the absolute base model Golf costs 32k euros. The current GTI starts at 48k. Even the polo starts at 19k+, and that's the shittiest vw you can buy.

The bottom line is back in the day any working person could buy a bas model shitbox, now the low class workers needs a 10 years loan to do the same

[wil421]

Nothings stopping you from buying a 90s beater. For the rest of us the safety features are worth it. I’m betting it costs more to manufacture a safe modern car than a 90s one.

>It turns out that a driver of a car 18 or more years old is 71 percent more likely to die in a bad crash than the driver of a car three years old or newer.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/09/study-measu...

[lm28469]

> Nothings stopping you from buying a 90s beater.

A lot actually, it's not legal to drive them in a lot of city centers

71% more than virtually 0 is not really a problem imho. And still, we could have modern cheap cars with modern crash safety for much less than the computers on wheel they're trying to sell us