babybear1003
New member
Hi everyone,
We are expecting our third child and looking to purchase a minivan. I had the crap scared out of me by watching small overlap crash test footage, in which many/most of the vans had terrible results, and that has put the Honda Odyssey at he front of my list because it was the only one to get a "good" rating.
The problem? I'm going to pay a LOT more for this than I was intending. We were originally thinking to get a 2012 or so used model, which are going for $20,000. The used 2014 (first year the overlap was tested) is going for $30,000. Yikes.
I would probably be wrong to assume that if the 2014 had a "good" rating that the 2013 would have had one too if tested? I am super, extremely anxious about car and car seat safety, so I don't want to gamble on a van that we're likely going to drive for the next 8-10 years. But yea, that extra $10 grand is a killer.
We are expecting our third child and looking to purchase a minivan. I had the crap scared out of me by watching small overlap crash test footage, in which many/most of the vans had terrible results, and that has put the Honda Odyssey at he front of my list because it was the only one to get a "good" rating.
The problem? I'm going to pay a LOT more for this than I was intending. We were originally thinking to get a 2012 or so used model, which are going for $20,000. The used 2014 (first year the overlap was tested) is going for $30,000. Yikes.
I would probably be wrong to assume that if the 2014 had a "good" rating that the 2013 would have had one too if tested? I am super, extremely anxious about car and car seat safety, so I don't want to gamble on a van that we're likely going to drive for the next 8-10 years. But yea, that extra $10 grand is a killer.