Cars
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 the specially-designed obstacle with the area around the front-left headlight, and no more. This puts a heck of a lot of strain on the structure of the car, especially if has not been specifically designed to take this very type of shock. Read more »
- 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 »...
- Updated Audi A6 Earns Top Safety Pick+ Rating From Iihs
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has just awarded the revised 2016 Audi A6 its highest Top Safety Pick+ honors. The car’s performance was rated as “stellar,†especially thanks to its better handling of the small overlap crash...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
Cars
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 the specially-designed obstacle with the area around the front-left headlight, and no more. This puts a heck of a lot of strain on the structure of the car, especially if has not been specifically designed to take this very type of shock. Read more »
- 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 »...
- Updated Audi A6 Earns Top Safety Pick+ Rating From Iihs
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has just awarded the revised 2016 Audi A6 its highest Top Safety Pick+ honors. The car’s performance was rated as “stellar,†especially thanks to its better handling of the small overlap crash...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...