> $9,000 for a used car gets you the safety improvements, but perhaps not the new car reliability I'm not convinced of that. Reliability has definitely been tr

> $9,000 for a used car gets you the safety improvements, but perhaps not the new car reliability I'm not convinced of that. Reliability has definitely been trending upwards. 100k miles used to be considered a high-mileage car, but now a car model that didn't regularly make it to that distance would be considered defective.