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Only two disaster SUV models work well in the new crash test, popular Ford Escape, Honda CR-V don t.
A side crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport 2008 Check Outlander 2013 and 2014 Subaru Forester performed well in the new final test before the institute.
Only two of the 13 small SUVs good results in frontal crash tests by a group of the insurance industry, with several models in the wrong are doing assessments.
Subaru 2014 Forester was the only vehicle to get the top note in the results released Thursday 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport has been classified as acceptable models but sold quickly as the Ford Escape, Honda CR-V and Jeep Wrangler received marginal or bad credit the insurance Institute for Highway safety.
small and medium SUVs, that get decent fuel consumption and cargo and passenger space of the largest SUVs are among the segments with higher growth in sales of the US auto market has up 50 percent from 2005 to last year, when US consumers bought more than 2 5 million of them, according to Ward's AutoInfoBank.
The IIHS evaluations are influential because many car buyers find while searching the Internet vehicles The group says its crash tests and evaluations are designed for car manufacturers to improve crashworthiness of their vehicles.
Ratings are for small overlap crash test institute, which covers only 25 percent of the front of a vehicle, the test was added to the IIHS ratings last year, with the Institute for push automakers in enhancing the impact resistance of their vehicles.
The test group are stricter than frontal crash test width of the Government of the United States Institute said that in many vehicles, accident affecting a quarter of the front end Misses the main structures designed to absorb the impact of accident Yet such accidents account for nearly a quarter of collisions causing death or serious injury to people in the front seats, said IIHS.
The new Ford Escape, the best-selling small SUV so far this year, received a poor overall rating, while Honda CR-V, the No. 2 seller, got a marginal note RAV-4 Toyota, a another big seller, hasn t yet been tested because Toyota has asked for time to improve the structure of the vehicle, said IIHS.
Other SUV get bad grades were Jeep Patriot, Buick Encore, Kia Sportage and Hyundai Tuscson, the Institute said the BMW X1, Nissan Rogue, Mazda CX-5, Volkswagen Tiguan and Jeep Wrangler two-door all have odds marginal.
Ford said in a statement that the Escape is safe because it is equipped with advanced security features and a structure designed to manage the impact of an accident, but the company said it is taking new developments in performance accident seriously.
This is the first time IIHS conducted such tests on small SUVs we examine its findings in the context of our current assessments of design, Ford said.
A spokesman for Honda was verified with accident experts from the company before commenting.
Forester and Outlander Sport each received the coveted IIHS Top Safety Pick award more because they have performed well in several tests, including the small offset crash Most other SUVs, including the Escape and CR-V won Top Safety Pick designations, but didn t get the most because of their performance in small offset tests Only 20 vehicles received the IIHS Top Safety Pick award more.
With the redesigned Forester, Subaru engineers have begun to do well in our new test, and they succeeded, Joe Nolan, vice president of the Vehicle Research Institute, said in a statement This is exactly the how we hoped manufacturers would meet to improve protection.
All SUVs tested, except for the Forester, were 2012 or 2013 models according to the Institute for the 2012 model tests were valid, as no significant design changes were made between model years.
IIHS is a nonprofit research group funded by auto insurance companies it develops crash tests to cut deaths, injuries and property damage from car and truck accidents.
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