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NHTSA conducted a second series of crash tests with the 2007 Toyota Tundra, and scored the version Crew Max with the same four star drivers and safety ratings for passenger regular cab received in March see below .
A score of five stars is the best vehicle can reach NHTSA test the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado, Dodge Ram 2007 and 2007 Ford F-150 each obtained five stars for passenger driver and security in their NHTSA tests Toyota's competitors already use the results of the original crash tests to highlight the safety of their microphones on the tundra.
These disappointing news for Toyota comes just weeks after the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS gave the Tundra's crash rating the highest test.
After reviewing the results charted below, you can see a huge difference in the injury of scores at the head of the Max passengers between crew and regular cab When lower scores are better, the crew Max scored a 677 while the regular cab received a score of 486 - almost 40 variation.
It is still unknown if the Double Cab has completed its tests, the scores published by NHTSA for the D-Cab are identical to regular cab results and there are no photos or video of a D-Cab test calls to NHTSA for comment were not returned.
In a phone call this morning with Toyota spokesman Bill Kwong Kwong said that, we are surprised by the test results from NHTSA In our internal testing, which was done according to the criteria of the NHTSA, we have consistently shown simulated feedback of five stars in the Tundra happen for now, our engineering team reviews the results, but it will take several weeks to sort When we have finished reviewing the data we'll determine what we may need to fix to do it right.
Interestingly, Kwong says the site NHTSA is wrong in the results of frontal reporting crash tests for the Double Cab Tundra According to Kwong, only regular cab testing was completed during the D-Cab test, and the crew door Max four hasn t happened yet Toyota has asked NHTSA to remove the four-star rating for the Tundra D-Cab.
From September 2007, all new vehicles sold in the United States will be required to display their rating crash test NHTSA.
Video added the frontal crash test Toyota Tundra regular cab and comparative graphs showing the scores from the NHTSA pick-up full-size regular cab 2007 compared to another.
Although it's not in the comparative graphs, the Nissan Titan 2007 received a frontal crash test score five stars for driver safety and four stars for passenger safety The same score was achieved in both versions King cab and Crew cab.
In what may prove to be a stroke of marketing and significant sales to the largest launch vehicle in Toyota's history, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA released its crash ratings for front impact test for the new pick-up full-size 2007 tundra - only four five stars for driver and passenger safety NHTSA tested the regular versions and Double Cab tundra, with the same results four stars.
In the same test, the all-new 2007 Chevrolet Silverado scored five out of five stars, corresponding to the same five star scores previously earned by the current Ford F-150 and Dodge Ram 1500 pickup for passenger driver and security front frontal impacts.
NHTSA conducts its frontal crash test by causing a collision of vehicles in a fixed barrier at 35 miles per hour, equivalent to a frontal collision between two similar vehicles, each moving at 35 mph using crash test dummies, the instruments measure the force of impact to each dummy's head, neck, chest, pelvis, legs and feet frontal star ratings indicate the possibility of serious head and chest injuries in the front seat driver and passenger serious injury is one requiring immediate hospitalization and may be life threatening Four of the five stars represents a 11 to 20 risk of serious injury five stars indicates a serious injury is reduced to 10 or less in a frontal collision.
Toyota said vehemently the new Tundra is ready to go head to head with the half-ton pickups offered by the Detroit Three, including expectations to receive Page 4 five-star safety rating, first paragraph.
The results of the NHTSA crash tests are likely to put the Toyota truck team in a deep defensive posture that the tundra is trying to prove equal to the incumbents, and Ford, General Motors and Chrysler jump on any perceived weakness in armor of the new truck.
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