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Mazda5 and Nissan Leaf lose their recommendation Consumer Reports.
One among a dozen small cars have won a good score in the latest crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS Mini Cooper Countryman Four other Fiat 500L Mazda5 Nissan Juke and Nissan Leaf won the most lowest score of poor.
Therefore, Consumer Reports will withdraw its recommendation of the Mazda5 and the Nissan Leaf and Juke 500L did not score high enough in our tests to recommend our long-standing criteria for recommending vehicle model states that score well in our tests, has average or better reliability, and correctly if they are included in crash tests conducted by the government or the insurance Institute for Highway safety.
The Mazda5 is an affordable vehicle, versatile and appreciated and approved, but this test raises serious concerns IIHS found that the Mazda5 just got a marginal rating in the side impact test, and This marks the Mazda as only 2014 model that IIHS has tested to earn anything less acceptable.
Leaf had 16 inches of intrusion into the lower compartment IIHS noted that the dashboard, the parking brake pedal and the steering column were all pushed towards the driver, at the risk of many injuries.
The test group also included two hybrid models of the extended range Chevrolet Volt and the Ford C-Max each earned an acceptable rating, one notch down from Good The Volt is the only vehicle in this group to win the very coveted Top Safety Pick award, recognizing solid marks in crash tests the IIHS and evaluation of the system before collision.
The small overlap test replicates a scenario that occurs in a quarter of the frontal crashes involving serious injury or death to the occupants of the front seats, even in vehicles with otherwise good protection against collisions in the small overlap test the collision forces are concentrated on only 25 percent of the vehicle ahead, against 40 percent for the crash test before traditional IIHS While both before IIHS crash tests are conducted at 40 mph, the test offset the moderate current sees the vehicle careen into a deformable barrier and the small overlap test uses a fixed barrier, which simulates hard hit a pole or other realty learn more about safety crash test 101.
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