MORE than 78,000 lives (1) have been saved since Euro NCAP's
tough crash safety tests were launched 20 years ago this week.
Not exact matches
The Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety's (IIHS) small front - overlap
crash test remains a seriously
tough nut to crack for many automakers.
«Criteria to win are
tough because TOP
SAFETY PICK is intended to drive continued improvements such as top
crash test ratings and rapid addition of electronic stability control, which is standard equipment on the TSX,» says Institute president Adrian Lund.
The revamped Honda Odyssey performed so well in modern
crash tests with increasingly
tough restrictions that it earned the coveted title of Top
Safety Pick + from the Insurance institute for Highway
Safety (IIHS).
The fourth - generation of Kia's best - seller has been engineered to meet the
toughest and most demanding
crash safety tests, thanks to an even stronger bodyshell, a wide array of passive
safety equipment and the latest active
safety and autonomous hazard avoidance technologies.
Debuting at the 2016 Chicago Auto Show and rolling into Hyundai showrooms this month, the revamped 2017 Santa Fe family has, evidently, been modified to resolve the single most significant reason consumers had to skip this model in the past, and that is its «Marginal»
test result in the
tough small overlap frontal - impact
crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety (IIHS).
Getting a five - star
crash safety rating from Euro NCAP is a good sign, especially since the
test was made much
tougher in 2015.
Since 2012 it has become harder for car companies to earn the organization's «Top
Safety Pick» rating thanks to the addition of a
tough new small overlap frontal - impact
crash test, and new ratings of forward collision warning and collision prevention systems.
The Kia Soul, a small car previously rated poor in the Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety's small overlap front
test, now earns a good rating in the
tough crash test, following structural improvements for the 2015 model year.
«Criteria to win Top
Safety Pick award are tough because they're intended to drive continued safety improvements such as high crash test ratings and rapid addition of ESC,» says Institute president Adrian
Safety Pick award are
tough because they're intended to drive continued
safety improvements such as high crash test ratings and rapid addition of ESC,» says Institute president Adrian
safety improvements such as high
crash test ratings and rapid addition of ESC,» says Institute president Adrian Lund.
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Kia Soul, a small car previously rated poor in the Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety's small overlap front
test, now earns a good rating in the
tough crash test, following structural improvements for the 2015 model year.
«Criteria to win are
tough because Top
Safety Pick is intended to drive continued improvements such as good
crash test ratings and rapid addition of electronic stability control, which is standard equipment on 9 of the 11 new winners,» says Institute president Adrian Lund.