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And the older the car, the cheaper it gets, 10 years is still pretty new, plenty of electronics. Cars peaked during the 90's with just enough technology to be reliable and functional, but not to much to make them complex. Those are also the cheapest to repair, and easy to do almost every type of repair on your own drive way, no need for a garage or special tools.

As for crash safety I'm convinced that all the complexity and the touch screens is what fails in most modern cars, causing accidents to get worse than they have to be, or even cause the accident in the first place. When you're the driver and have to operate a ton of controls at all time, you're forced to pay attention to the road, but in a modern car with adaptive cruise control and lane assist it's easy to fall asleep behind the wheel as the car requires no input for several minutes.

Then bang, you... or rather the car crash into a barrier as the lane ended and the lane assist didn't know what to do.