Most pickup rates headlights poor truck - New IIHS
The Nissan Rogue has joined a handful of small SUVs passing a difficult new crash test that thwarted the best-selling competitors like the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4 and Ford Escape.
The Rogue becomes one of the four small SUVs for safety Best choice more Evaluation of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Institute announced last week The others are the Subaru Forester, Mitsubishi Outlander and Mazda CX-5 In a separate category, the redesigned Audi A3 has also received the highest score.
To reach the Top Safety Pick rating model more, a 2014 or later a car must have good results in crash tests of the Institute - including the new small overlap difficult test, which simulates hitting another car, tree or light pole with a corner of the car in addition, the top-rated vehicles must have an accident prevention system at least as an option - including automatic braking warning or collision before the vehicles making well in crash tests, but does not provide accident prevention technology get the second level ranking Top Safety Pick no more.
The crash test report on the Nissan Rogue noted that, in the small overlap test, was reasonably well kept steps Injury space driver recorded on the dummy indicated a low risk of significant injury in an accident this gravity this is especially important because in vehicles fared poorly in this test, the accident collapsed the driver's area in a way that threatens the wounds of hip and leg that was the case with small crossover SUV that got a poor rating or marginal for testing, including Honda models, Toyota and Ford.
The Rogue, which starts at a list price of 22490, has been completely redesigned for the 2014 model, becoming longer and wider at the legs and extra cargo space The 2013 design, which has not passed new crash test, remains on sale as the Nissan Rogue Select If you are interested in Snape, make sure to get the 2014 version with the highest security rating.
The Audi A3, previously here only as a hatchback car, has been completely redesigned and now offers a sedan as 2015 model from a list price of 29995 The IIHS also a safety Best choice more note to the new A3 - the first Audi model to win this designation is one of the five models tested so far in the midsize luxury near luxury category with the highest score - with the Volvo S60, Infiniti Q50, Lincoln MKZ and Acura TL falls below this are the Mercedes Benz C-class and BMW 3 series - both got marginal ratings in the small overlap crash test.
With the results little overlap A3, measures of injury taken the dummy indicated a low risk of injury The accident prevention system before an option for the A3, which includes the automatic braking, received an average rating of advanced three levels - after avoiding a crash in a separate test IIHS.
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