Crash Tests: 2016 IIHS Top Safety Pick + Winners
Subaru, Mitsubishi new small crossover top crash test.
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The Subaru Forester and Mitsubishi Outlander Sport won honors from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, becoming the only small SUV ace new crash test s overlapping group of the mall.
The Forester, which Subaru redesigned for the 2014 model year, earned Top Safety Pick award by scoring a good rating on the small overlap test, in which the front corner of the driver's side vehicle hits a barrier five feet at 40 mph .
With the redesigned Forester, Subaru engineers have begun to do well in our new test, and they succeeded, Joe Nolan, vice president for research at IIHS vehicles, said in a statement that's exactly the way we hoped manufacturers would respond to improve the protection of people in this kind of severe frontal crashes.
Twenty vehicles have now received Top Safety Pick honors for safety in small overlap crashes, the IIHS said today.
The tests - that replicate an accident in which the corner of a car collides with an object such as a tree or pole - are not yet included in the five-star ratings from the federal government, although the researchers say that they are responsible for a proportion of deaths out standards of conduct.
also today welcomed the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, which won Top Safety Pick honors, but the Forester shifted an acceptable score on the small overlap test.
Five small sport utility vehicles - Hyundai Tucson, Kia Sportage, Buick Encore, Jeep Patriot and Ford Escape - received a poor rating in the small overlap test.
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The Outlander Sport Mitsubishi - another first choice of security.
When the Patriot is crushed, for example, the flywheel displaced 8 inches upward and six inches to the right, so that the head of the crash test dummy was able to slip out of the airbag, the airbag side curtain in the Patriot not deployed, and the safety belt does not retain the head and the chest of the manikin, said IIHS.
The IIHS continues to award its Top Safety Pick honors, which do not include the small overlap test, small SUVs to receive Top Safety Pick honors include the BMW X1, Buick Encore, Ford Escape, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, Volkswagen Tiguan and Toyota RAV4 2014 Patriot is also eligible, as the Patriot 2013 when equipped with side airbags optional torso.
The RAV4, one of the best selling crossovers in the country and redesigned for the 2013 model year, was not subject to the new small overlap test Toyota asked to postpone the test to make changes that will help passengers RAV4 do best in a small overlap crash, the IIHS said.
The group funded by the insurance industry has tested several lots of cars, as it introduces the small overlap test last year.
David Strickland, the administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told Automotive News this year that will soon NHTSA research, it must decide to add a similar test crash test program five stars from the agency.
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