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Re:The Brave Souls Who Bought a Used, 340k-Mile Rental Campe... by jlongr on Thursday May 07, 2026 @09:55AM (#48049527)
20+ year old cars are much less safe than modern ones. I would strongly consider a newer car if I were you.
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Re:The Brave Souls Who Bought a Used, 340k-Mile Rental Campe... by SoftTalker on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:09AM (#48049695)
A 2006 car is pretty safe. It won't have gizmos like lane departure warnings or automatic braking but crash safety will be about as good as a new car, especially if you buy one that had good crash safety ratings at the time, such as Mercedes or Volvo.
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Re:The Brave Souls Who Bought a Used, 340k-Mile Rental Campe... by hedora on Thursday May 07, 2026 @08:47PM (#48057065)
Fords too. By 2006, they'd pulled all the Volvo intellectual property they could out of the acquisition and ported it to their flagship vehicles.
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Re:The Brave Souls Who Bought a Used, 340k-Mile Rental Campe... by cardinalfang on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:02AM (#48049613)
The T4 is better than the T3 where you are the crumple zone.
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