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The redesigned 2011 Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger were called “Top Assurance Picks” by the Insurance Institute of Highway Assurance (IIHS). It is the aboriginal time that either has becoming the designation.

In columnist absolution emailed to journalists, IIHS says, “Chrysler decidedly bigger the assurance achievement of these cars for 2011. The antecedent bearing Charger and 300 becoming the additional everyman appraisement of bordering for ancillary appulse protection, even if able with head-protecting ancillary blind airbags.” Those earlier array are notable because of the Charger and 300’s size. Typically, ample cars acquire bigger scores. The Ford Taurus and Toyota Avalon, absolute competitors to the Charger and the 300, acquire all becoming array of “Good” in IIHS foreground and ancillary appulse blast tests.

Becoming a “Top Assurance Pick” is no simple feat. In accession to the best accessible array in foreground and ancillary blast tests, the cars acquire to canyon IIHS’s roof backbone tests and acquire accepted cyberbanking adherence ascendancy (ESC). “The roof of the Charger withstood a force according to 5.37 times the car’s weight. By comparison, the accepted federal accepted is 1.5 times weight. ESC, which was alternative on the antecedent bearing models, is now standard.” The ambition of the roof backbone analysis is to admeasurement how able-bodied a car ability assure occupants in a rollover.

Overall, seven cars from Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep brands acquire been called “Top Assurance Picks” this year.

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