LAST AUTO NEWS – AUDI A4 GETS 5-STARS IN NHTSA’S NEW CAR ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
Last Auto Account – Audi A4 Gets 5-stars in NHTSA’s New Car Assessment Program
In accession to boasting bigger weight distribution, bigger handling, a adult new skin, and added autogenous room, Audi’s new-for-’09 A4 just garnered top 5-star blast and rollover ratings from the National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration. NHTSA awarded the A4 5-stars in its NCAP, or New Car Assessment Program. NCAP tests ..Last Auto account –
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In accession to boasting bigger weight distribution, bigger handling, a adult new skin, and added autogenous room, Audi’s new-for-’09 A4 just garnered top 5-star blast and rollover ratings from the National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration. NHTSA awarded the A4 5-stars in its NCAP, or New Car Assessment Program.
NCAP tests all new cars at 5 mph aloft U.S. blast analysis requirements, consistent in a 35 mph aboveboard blast analysis and a 38.5 mph ancillary blast test. It again awards cars from one to 5 stars based on their achievement in those tests.
For commuter protection, the A4 offers front, side, and side-curtain airbags as accepted equipment. And its acquiescent assurance affection are aswell added for ’09 with appearance such as a segment-leading foreground clue amplitude that Audi claims is 2.5 inches added than the aggressive BMW, and one inch added than the abutting aggressive Lexus. In accession to bigger fore/aft weight distrution on Audi’s new A4, this widened clue increases the vehicle’s admiration in emergency assignment and accordingly the driver’s aplomb abaft the wheel.
To appearance added advice on A4 blast analysis performance, go to safercar.org.–Colin Mathews
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