LAST AUTO NEWS – SMALL CARS GETTING SAFER — EXCEPT ONE
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Good account for abridgement car buyers: the aboriginal cars on the alley are safer than they’ve anytime been before. As continued as you’re not absorbed in a Chrysler PT Cruiser, that is.
Kicking Tires reports, “The Allowance Institute for Highway Safety afresh activated seven added 2009-model-year baby cars and has now begin that 11 of the 21 baby cars it has activated accept becoming the top appraisement of Good in ancillary blast tests. That’s up from the three out of 19 baby cars activated in 2006 that becoming that rating.”
Among the highest-scoring cars were the Toyota Matrix and Pontiac Vibe twins and the Ford Focus.
However, Autoblog notes, “The atomic aerialist of the group” was Chrysler’s PT Cruiser. It “also happens to be the oldest design. This getting the case, it’s average ‘poor’ appraisement in ancillary and rear crashes, due in ample allotment to its abortive arch restraints and abridgement of rear side-mounted airbags, isn’t too shocking.”
The after-effects highlight problems with absolutely those two features. Edmunds Inside Line explains, “The latest address agenda is in from the Allowance Institute for Highway Safety and it finds that some 2009 archetypal baby cars, such as the 2009 Saturn Astra, the 2009 Suzuki SX4 and the Chrysler PT Cruiser, still charge advance if it comes to absorption occupants in ancillary and rear crashes.”
In a columnist release, the IIHS lauds the automakers for including accepted ancillary head-curtain airbags in a lot of baby cars this year, but cautions that automakers accept plan larboard to do. “Many automakers haven’t paid as abundant absorption to aegis in rear crashes, compared with foreground and side,” the Institute writes. “Good seat/head restraints are key to preventing whiplash injuries. Neck abrasion or ache is the a lot of frequently appear blast abrasion in US allowance claims,” and rear-impact crashes, according to Institute data, are the a lot of accepted blazon of car accident.
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