LAST AUTO NEWS – STUDY: CRASH TEST RESULTS CAN DIFFER FOR TWO, FOUR-DOOR CARS
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Buying a new baby car? Don’t accept that blast tests performed on a auto administer to the auto adaptation of the aforementioned car. That’s one important takeaway from a new annular of blast tests.
The Allowance Institute for Highway Safety, an auto assurance class adjourned by a accumulation of car allowance companies, is abaft the new annular of tests. Kicking Tires explains that the IIHS “has been accretion its blast tests to added and added segments” in contempo years. For the aboriginal time, they accept activated coupes and auto models separately. KT says, “The accumulation as a accomplished performed able-bodied because the severity of the tests. None rated lower than Acceptable in foreground or ancillary tests, while the Ford Focus and Volvo C30 denticulate top marks of Acceptable in front, ancillary and rear tests, earning the Top Assurance Pick nod.” Of the 5 cars tested, alone the Scion tC bootless to acquire the top rating, “good,” in frontal-impact tests.
However, the two-door cars sometimes becoming altered array than their four-door counterparts. Autoblog reports, “The 2009 Ford Focus Auto joins Volvo’s 2009 C30 as a two-door car that earns the agency’s Top Assurance Pick rating, yet the four-door Focus denticulate a lower Acceptable appraisement in antecedent IIHS ancillary blast testing. Conversely, the 2009 Honda Civic flips those ratings with the newly-tested auto accumulation an Acceptable ancillary blast account against the sedan’s Top Assurance Pick rating.”
In a columnist absolution answer the results, Institute Senior Vice President David Zuby explains, “These differences affirm that blast analysis ratings for 4-door cars can’t automatically be activated to 2-door versions. Still the assurance improvements we’ve apparent for 4-door cars about arise to be accustomed over to 2-doors, which is acceptable account for consumers.” All of the activated vehicles, for instance, accept head-protecting ancillary airbags as accepted equipment.
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