LAST AUTO NEWS – SEVERAL LARGE PICKUPS FLUNK CRASH TESTS
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Whatever you do, don’t let a ample barter hit your ample truck. That’s the bulletin from the Allowance Institute of Highway Safety, which has appear stunningly poor after-effects from a contempo annular of side-impact blast tests involving full-size pickups..
Kicking Tires reports, “The new Dodge Ram, Nissan Titan and Chevy Silverado all performed beneath expectations if IIHS activated four-door versions for ancillary impacts.” Both the Titan and Silverado (as able-bodied as the Silverado’s cousin, the GMC Sierra) denticulate the affliction accessible rating, “poor,” after ancillary airbags. With ancillary airbags the Titan’s array bigger to “marginal,” but the Silverado and Sierra backward at the basal of the pack. The Ram offers ancillary airbags as accepted equipment, and denticulate a “marginal” rating. These after-effects appear as a abruptness back a lot of of these trucks “got a best assurance appraisement from the National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration.”
Why did the allowance industry get such altered after-effects than the government lab? The IIHS uses a analysis sled – the affair that crashes into the car during the analysis – congenital to actor a ample barter or SUV. The government uses a analysis sled meant to actor a midsize car. The IIHS analysis sled crashes into a college point on the ancillary of the activated vehicle.
“Tough breach for the Titan, Silverado and Ram,” writes the Los Angeles Times. “But hey, at atomic they’re safer than cars, right? Wrong, said David Zuby, chief carnality admiral of the IIHS. ‘The size, weight and acme of these ample pickups should advice them ace the ancillary tests, just like the added ample pickups we’ve tested,’ he said. ‘Not these three; they accomplish worse than abounding cars we’ve evaluated.’ In fact, according to the IIHS, not a individual midsized auto denticulate lower than ‘acceptable.’”
So does the IIHS artlessly accept it out for big trucks? Apparently not. Motor Trend notes, “The IIHS’ deems the Ford F-150, Honda Ridgeline and Toyota Tundra as ‘Top Assurance Picks.’” Each of those accustomed the accomplished accessible account – “good” – in the aforementioned test.
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