LAST AUTO NEWS – MITSUBISHI LANCER AWARDED TOP SAFETY PICK BY IIHS

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In the bazaar for a new baby car? If assurance is a top antecedence in your next acquirement the Mitsubishi Lancer may be a acceptable bet.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Assurance (IIHS) just awarded the Lancer with its Top Assurance Pick award. As the IIHS states, “The Lancer, a baby car, is the aboriginal Mitsubishi to authorize for the top assurance appellation back the Institute implemented the new rollover test.”

“To acquire the award, a car acquire to acquire the top appraisement of Acceptable in a front, side, rear and rollover blast tests,” explains Cars.com. “A car aswell acquire to acquire cyberbanking adherence control; this affection is accepted on the Lancer.”

The IIHS afresh afflicted their roof-strength standards. “As a result, abounding of the cars that had ahead able as Top Assurance Picks fell off the account in 2010,” says Car.com.

The new roof analysis “consists of a metal bowl that pushes adjoin one bend of a vehicle’s roof at a connected speed,” letters Edmunds. “The best force abiding by the roof afore 5 inches of drove is compared to the vehicle’s weight to acquisition the strength-to-weight ratio. Cars rated ‘good’ acquire roofs that can bear a force according to at atomic 4 times the vehicle’s weight. This is college than the accepted federal accepted of 1.5 times the weight.”

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