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In the bazaar for an affordable midsize car? The 2011 Hyundai Sonata was just called an Insurance Institute for Highway Assurance (IIHS) TOP SAFETY PICK — the institute’s accomplished honor.

According to the IIHS, “To authorize for TOP SAFETY PICK, a car accept to acquire the accomplished appraisement of acceptable in the Institute’s front, side, rear, and rollover tests and be able with cyberbanking adherence control.” The previous-model Sonata performed bigger in foreground and rear appulse blast tests than in ancillary impacts and rollovers.

Improving aloft the 2010 Sonata to accomplish authorize for the account has been no simple feat. Cars.com explains: “Earning the accolade became tougher if IIHS added a new roof-strength analysis that is active as acrimonious as the federal requirement. As a result, abounding of the cars that had ahead able as Top Picks fell off the account in 2010.”

Not surprisingly, the new Sonata appearance a continued account of accepted assurance technology. According to a Hyundai columnist release: “Sonata is congenital from the arena up with assurance in mind, with a hot formed ultra-high-strength animate physique structure, avant-garde airbag technology and Cyberbanking Adherence Ascendancy (ESC), carrying on Hyundai’s charge to both alive and acquiescent assurance technology leadership. … The Sonata aswell appearance a advanced Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) including Brake Assist and Cyberbanking Brake-force Distribution (EBD). Sonata appearance six airbags—including bifold front, foreground seat-mounted side-impact, and foreground and rear ancillary blind airbags—along with alive front-seat arch restraints.”

“This is a almost big accomplishment for Hyundai, as the 2011 archetypal is the aboriginal Sonata to acquire this top honor,” addendum Autoblog.

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