Acura receives top NHTSA safety ratings and IIHS
Acura Makes Historic First in Notes Crash Test.
All Acura lineup receives IIHS Top Safety Rating.
For the first and only time in the history of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS tests, a plate of the car won the prestigious TOP SAFETY PICK rating for each vehicle in its entire range for this milestone safety, all 2009 Acura luxury sedans and SUVs received the best possible rating in each IIHS crash test and have vehicle stability Assist Acura VSA electronic stability control system as standard equipment.
TOP SAFETY PICK winners are the best performing front hard, side and rear crash tests, and they control electronic stability, a crucial technology that can help drivers avoid many accidents in total, said President Adrian Lund Institute Acura means realizing that no matter the Acura model buyers choose, they're getting the state of the art protection for the types of injuries most common real world.
To complete the Acura feat earlier today the IIHS announced that the all-new 2009 Acura TL performance luxury sedan earned the highest rating of good security for each category, including Frontal Offset Crash Test, Side Impact collision SCIA assessment and protection against rear collisions Completely redesigned 2009 TL is on sale in September and is the best selling Acura's performance luxury sedan.
With all Acura vehicles we build, safety is at the forefront throughout the design process, said John Mendel, executive vice president of automotive operations We are extremely proud that Acura is the first and only plate still win this safety distinction.
In addition, all 2009 Acura vehicles have achieved the highest government crash test rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA NCAP Frontal Crash tests most common form of vehicle accident.
The best of crash safety rating are the direct result of the security of the Acura Thanks to the initiative of innovation based on the commitment of management in brand security objective of the initiative is for all Acura models to provide a high level of occupant protection and pedestrian injury mitigation, as well as increased crash compatibility with other vehicles, regardless of size or price.
For 2009, all Acura models as standard equipment body structure Advanced Compatibility Engineering ACE with a host of other standard safety equipment including Vehicle Stability Assist VSA, ABS anti-lock brakes, front airbags double threshold two-stage, side airbags with front passenger detection OPDS occupants system position, active headrests for front seats, the front safety belts with automatic tensioning system and load limiters, pressure monitoring tires TPMS and lights DRL day.
The structure of the Acura ACE body is designed to help absorb the energy of a frontal collision, while helping to reduce the risk of sub-tower or an overriding phenomenon that can occur during the frontal impact with a much larger, smaller, or less vehicle ACE channels of the frontal crash energy to both the upper and lower structure, including the floor frame rails, the side flanges and These amounts have specially designed load paths help distribute frontal impact forces through a greater percentage of the total structure of the vehicle and away from the passenger compartment.
Acura engineers have the advantage of being able to use two ultra-sophisticated crash test facilities, including the first inside the crash test facility in car multi-directional car in the world, located Tochigi, Japan This facility has played a crucial role in the development of improved models for occupant and pedestrian safety, and compatibility from vehicle to vehicle.
With the installation of Japan, Acura also conducts extensive safety tests on all US models developed at the Research Center on automotive safety company which is located in Raymond, Ohio It features sled equipment test pitching the world, facilitating efficiency by enabling economical, reproducible crash simulations and rapid tests with certain interior safety components such as seats and seatbelts prior to a crash test with an actual vehicle he also has one of the most significant barriers to the impact of the resolution of the world, allowing accurate measurement of the distribution of impact load forces on a vehicle for the development of even more advanced vehicles.
Acura was the first to market on many safety technologies, including the first production vehicle in U S to provide a braking system with 4 channels; the first vehicle for producing an airbag passenger side with height and position sensors; the first vehicle to have airbags Driver- double deck and passenger side; the first luxury SUV to receive a security clearance crash 5-star NHTSA; and the first production vehicle to provide the detection system OPDS position occupants varying the deployment of the airbag on the passenger side as a function of the location of the body of the occupant.
As part of its commitment to improve safety for all road users, Acura has also led the US industry in the application of features designed to reduce injuries to pedestrians in a collision such as hinges collapsible hood and breakaway wiper pivots, with a focus on reducing serious head injuries, which account for 60 percent of pedestrian fatalities in addition, the company sought to better understand the dynamics of collisions pedestrians and developed the safety test dummy POLAR II, which is widely recognized as test the safety of the most advanced in the world dummy pedestrians.
About IIHS The IIHS is a nonprofit organization that conducts independent tests to help reduce the losses - deaths, injuries and property damage - accidents on the roads of the country and provides its findings to auto insurers IIHS been conducting vehicle tests since 1969, and while it performs crash tests of similar impact to those conducted by NHTSA, the IIHS tests use clearing barriers rather than barrier width of the complete vehicle.
Based on the post-test analysis of the crash, the IIHS crash safety levels using four good ratings, acceptable, marginal and poor IIHS performs other vehicle safety tests, including impact tests low speed bumper and evaluations of the headrest of the seat-based rear impact test ratings from IIHS information and vehicle can get by visiting.
About Acura offers a full line of luxury vehicles technological peak performance through a network of 271 dealers in the US The range 2009 Acura offers five distinctive models including the RL performance luxury sedan, the TL luxury sedan performance the TSX sports sedan, the turbocharged RDX crossover SUV and the award-winning luxury sport utility vehicle MDX for media information and high-resolution photos of all Acura vehicles, please visit for consumer information, please visit please.
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