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ARLINGTON, VA - The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced that eight Toyota, Lexus, and Scion vehicles were among 66 winners of Top Safety Pick awards for 2011.
Read More →HERNDON, VA - The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) chose three Audi models - the Audi A3, Audi A4 and Audi Q5 - as 2011 TOP SAFETY PICK winners.
Read More →Sixty-six vehicles have drawn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Top Safety Pick award for 2011, including 40 cars, 25 SUVs and a minivan. Hyundai/Kia and Volkswagen/Audi each have nine winners for 2011.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced that the MY 2010-2011 Suzuki Kizashi midsize vehicle has drawn "good" ratings -- the highest possible -- for its performance in front- and side-impact crash tests.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - Bumpers on cars are designed to match up with each other in collisions, but federal regulations exempt SUVs from the same rules. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, new crash tests demonstrate the results: SUV bumpers that don't line up with those on cars can lead to huge repair bills.
Read More →DETROIT - At General Motors' Anthropomorphic Test Device (ATD) lab, new hyper-tech dummies talk in hyper-speed, recording and transmitting crash data 10,000 times a second. Two-hundred crash test dummies of all shapes and sizes are wired with 70-80 sensors each that tell safety engineers exactly how much and what kind of forces they endure during crash tests.
Read More →DETROIT - The 2011 GMC Acadia has received a five-star crash test rating in the federal government's New Car Assessment Program.
Read More →DEARBORN, MI - In the latest development in the ongoing debate over the safety of aftermarket crash parts, Ford Motor Co. announced that its recent round of low-speed crash tests showed that a commonly used aftermarket bumper beam absorbs less crash energy than the vehicle's original bumper beam or a genuine Ford replacement bumper beam.
Read More →WASHINGTON - The Technical Committee of the Certified Automotive Parts Association has approved the CAPA 501 Standard for the certification of aftermarket bumper parts which includes steel bumpers (front and rear), steel reinforcements (rebars), bumper brackets and energy absorbers.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently updated its "Fatality Facts" database to include 2009 statistics culled from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).
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