2009 Dodge Challenger starts at $21,995
i'm not talking about injury rates. anyone with a brain knows the new cars are safer. new cars are so riddled with crumple zones and other misc cheap plastic shit, that it's a tradeoff. old cars were pretty safe still, even among today's standards (if you wore a seatbelt back then), because they were built tough. you could barely dent half the cars out. today, most stuff is meant to break and be fully replaced, but there's a cost tradeoff between one and the other.