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IIHS Finds Small Overlap Crash Test Proves Too Much for Most City Cars
Out of the eleven subcompact cars that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently tested, only one achieved an ‘acceptable’ rating in the difficult small overlap crash test. This has prompted them to call “these tiny vehicles the worst performing group of any evaluated so far.†Read more »
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Audi Q5 Rated “good†In Iihs Small Overlap Crash Test, Receives Tsp+
Smaller and midsize SUVs have been struggling to get decent scores in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) tricky small overlap crash test, but Audi’s Q5 is not one of them. Read more »...
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Iihs Calls 2015 Nissan Sentra A Top Safety Pick
Now that manufacturers have started bracing and adapting their cars for the very difficult small overlap crash test introduced by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), it seems to be paying off in spades. For Nissan, its Sentra sedan didn’t...
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Iihs Finds Most Minivans Don’t Take The Small Overlap Crash Test Well
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently tested a batch of family-friendly minivans. Their findings suggest that none are really terrific at dealing with the small overlap crash test, and out of the five models tested, only two were...
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2015 Hyundai Sonata Posts Strong Results During Iihs Crash Test [w/video]
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s small overlap crash test is clearly no longer catching manufacturers off-guard, and they have already begun factoring it into the structural design of all their new cars. Proof is the impressive overall...
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New Toyota Rav4 Rated 'poor' By Iihs For Weak Small Overlap Test Performance
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has automakers’ engineers in charge of safety back to the drawing board, trying to figure out how to get a passing score for the newly-introduced small overlap crash test, which has vehicles hit...
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