2012 Suzuki Kizashi Test Drive & Car Review
Honda Accord 2013 after suffering a small offset crash test.
Only two of the 18 family cars midsize earned a good rating in the new frontal crash testing by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and one of those will soon leave the market.
Honda Accord 2013 Suzuki Kizashi sedans were the only medium public companies to earn good grades, with the IIHS rating 11 other models as acceptable Two Toyota cars landed in the wrong category, organization financed by industry insurance reported recently redesigned Camry and the new Prius in fact, the hybrid model suffered severe structural damage in the test, the IIHS has revealed in a new version.
The overall results may not yet seem impressive family sedan actually outperformed the average and close to luxury size luxury models have already been tested by the Institute, noted the President Adrian Lund IIHS.
Remarkably, Lund said, adding that the difference is amazing Thirteen of these midsize cars offer better protection accident that all but three of their luxury counterparts, and at a price that is easy on the wallet.
The Toyota Camry - here - and Prius are the two models to earn poor ratings.
This was the first time the IIHS had put mainstream sedans with its new small stringent recovery test, designed to simulate what happens if a car hits another vehicle or a roadside object, such as a telephone pole or a tree security experts say the test reflects a significant number of real-world plant and is probably more representative of what happens that previous barrier tests.
The damage from the accident in the tests is as we see the damage in accidents in the real world where injured head and chest, the IIHS chief.
industry engineers say the new test nevertheless establishes a particularly difficult challenge especially since most of today's vehicles have not been intentionally designed to meet the new target in which only 25 of front end of the driver's side of a car is driven in a 5 feet high rigid barrier at 40 miles per hour.
The Camry and Prius v illustrate what can go wrong in a small overlap crash, despite good grades in other IIHS tests, the trade group warned.
The researchers found that there was virtually no crash structure to absorb the energy of impact, allowing the wheel to take most of the blow, resulting in high levels of intrusion compartment occupant.
Stressed Lund, Toyota engineers have a lot of work to do to match the performance of their competitors.
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Toyota has responded to the results IIHS a statement saying: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS regularly develops new, more severe or specialized tests that go beyond federal requirements With this new test, the Institute has raised the bar again and we will respond to the challenge we evaluate new test protocols and can say there will be no single solution to achieve better performance of the accident in this area.
By comparison, the Accord and Kizashi were the stand-out in the test The Honda sedan recently sold, but the Suzuki model will become increasingly difficult to find in the coming months as the Japanese manufacturer has decided to withdraw from the US market.
The two Japanese models will now qualify for the IIHS Top Safety Pick award, the Agreement in both coupe and sedan configurations.
In total, only 13 models currently eligible to achieve this level, a vehicle must first get a good grade in four of the five tests, and an acceptable level in the other test, including moderate overlap frontal crash, and side impact and rollover the vehicle must then mark or acceptable in the new small overlap test.
Winners are far Dodge Avenger and its twin, the Chrysler 200 4 doors; Ford Fusion; Honda 2-door; Honda Accord 4-door; Kia Optima; Nissan Altima 4 doors; Subaru Legacy and its twin, the Subaru Outback; Suzuki Kizashi and Volkswagen Passat.
Only two luxury models tested so far described the Acura TL and Volvo S60.
117 other vehicles earning the Top Safety Pick honor less difficult in some cases because they have not yet been submitted to the new hard crash test.
In addition to the State Administration of road safety, which sets imposed safety standards and carries out its own tests, the IIHS has had a significant impact on vehicle design in recent years and industry engineers now say they'll have to keep in mind the new test.
We've seen automakers make structural changes and restraint in response to our small overlap test Lund says Five manufacturers redesigned their average car companies to improve protection against small overlap crashes.
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