VOLVO S60 NAMED AN IIHS “TOP SAFETY PICK”

2011 volvo s60 medium Volvo S60 Named an IIHS Top Safety Pick

If the redesigned Volvo S60 has bent your eye, you’ll like that it captivated up able-bodied in blast tests, earning “Top Safety Pick” cachet from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The S60 accustomed the IIHS’s top account of “Good” in front, side, roof backbone and all-embracing rear blast aegis tests. It aswell comes accepted with cyberbanking adherence control.

IIHS blast analysis abstracts was impressive. “Measurements taken during the S60’s testing appearance a low accident of cogent abrasion in a 40-mph frontal-offset crash. Head movement was well-controlled during the blast — abbreviation the achievability of a close injury,” writes Cars.com. “During side-impact testing, the driver’s and rear passenger’s active were adequate from the 3,300-pound deformable barrier traveling at 31 mph (shown above).”

The S60 did able-bodied in added IIHS tests. “In the roof backbone test, IIHS begin that the S60 can bear an appliance of 4.95 times its barrier weight, a amount that puts it additional alone to the Mercedes-Benz C-Class in the midsize affluence auto class,” letters Left Lane News. “IIHS has not activated all of the S60′s rivals, but the Volvo does rank advanced of the Lincoln MKZ, Audi A4 and Lexus HS 250h.”

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 Volvo S60 Named an IIHS Top Safety Pick


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