The 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander has received the Top Safety Pick+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), becoming one of only two small crossover SUVs to earn this title, with the other one being the 2014 Subaru Forester.
For a vehicle to receive the IIHS’ Top Safety Pick+, it needs to score top marks (“good”) in four out of five tests and no less than an “acceptable” rating in the fifth test. While most vehicle fail the new small overlap frontal crash, the 2014 Mitsubishi Outland received a “good” rating in this difficult test.
The third small SUV on the market with a Top Safety Pick+ rating is the 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport. 12 more vehicles in this segment were tested by the IIHS so far, but none of them managed to go past the agency’s “marginal” rating.
In the small overlap frontal test, 25 percent of the vehicle’s front end on the driver side hits a five-foot-tall barrier at 40 miles per hour. The IIHS says the crash replicates “what happens when the front corner of the vehicle strikes another vehicle or object like a tree or utility pole.”
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