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Carsafetydance: Crash Testing and Car Safety by Jimmy

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It's now 1990, and we're looking for a first car for a new 16-year-old driver. The requirements are going to be the same as 1985: $20,000 or less in 2025 dollars (which means an $8,100 budget this time around), and our hypothetical driver was born in 1974. 

NHTSA crash testing has been out for 11 years now, so there are plentiful choices for vehicles that do...

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In this exercise, I will travel back in time and give you my pick of what would have been the ideal first car for a new driver at various points in time. In the real world, there are many variables with this question; driver age, budget, needs, etc. 

To standardize things, I'm going with a fairly typical setup; a 16-year-old new driver who just got their license, o...

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Depending on the exact vehicle you choose, a vehicle can have anywhere from 0 to 11 airbags, and there have been production vehicles with every number in this range - 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, and 11. But some of these counts are quite common, and others are very rare, having been made on only a small number of models. Keep in mind, this is not an exhaustive list o...

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