Lincoln MKT Gets top Safety Pick
11 Sep 2009, 08:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ford Motor's Lincoln MKT received yesterday the Top Safety pick award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The crossover was found as providing a high level of crash protecti...
2010 Mazda3 Receives IIHS Top Safety Pick
11 Sep 2009, 07:10 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The 2010 Mazda3 yesterday received the Top Safety Pick from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). In order to qualify for the Institute's maximum rating, a tested vehicle must scor...
Subaru Legacy and Outback Top Safety Pick from IIHS
28 Aug 2009, 09:53 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Subaru's 2010 Legacy and Outback are the latest models to earn the Top Safety Pick from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS). Earlier this week, the 2010 Legacy also snatched the ma...
IIHS Top Safety Pick for 2010 Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger
25 Aug 2009, 14:52 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / It seems that the 2010 Chrysler Sebring and 2010 Dodge Avenger are quite efficient when it comes to keeping their occupants away from injuries, as both cars have received the Top Safety Picks from t...
Three Small Cars Receive IIHS Top Safety Pick
14 Aug 2009, 12:46 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Safety is one of the biggest concern for most automakers nowadays and no matter if we're talking about micro cars or large SUV, they must provide good protection to all their passengers. The la...
2010 Kia Soul Awarded IIHS Top Safety Pick
14 Aug 2009, 07:26 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Things seem to work great for Kia in the United States where the South Korean brand posted very high sales following the incentives offered by the government through CARS. More recently, the company...
Mazda 6 Tops IIHS Low-Speed Crash Test
6 Aug 2009, 07:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although designed to withstand medium speed crash tests with reasonable amount of protection to occupants, it would appear today's vehicles are a real pain in the behind when it comes to low sp...
2010 Ford Taurus Gains IIHS Top Safety Pick
5 Aug 2009, 06:50 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The 2010 Ford Taurus made the headlines one more time, this time thanks to its advanced safety features that brought the car a Top Safety Pick from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)....
Teens Destroy a 2010 Mustang in Crash
14 Jul 2009, 12:35 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Another incident that hurts the eyes of those who see the pictures happened when three teenagers took a 2010 Ford Mustang GT for a test drive. And what a test the car went through... A classic stor...
2009 VW Tiguan Gets 5-Star NHTSA Rating
9 Jul 2009, 07:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Seeing vehicles receiving top star safety ratings in crash tests has become somewhat of a common sight these days, with more and more models achieving this feat. The latest news from the safety fron...
Audi A4, Q5 Get 5 Star EuroNCAP Rating
26 Jun 2009, 10:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / German manufacturer Audi and its latest models, the A4 and Q5, managed to secure a five star rating after undergoing the European New Car Assessment Program (EuroNCAP) safety tests. After going ...
2010 Lexus RX Gets IIHS Top Safety Pick
17 Jun 2009, 10:00 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The 2010 Lexus RX has just received the top safety pick in the latest IIHS crash test, getting good performance in front, side and rear tests. In order to be be eligible for the top rating, a vehicl...
IIHS Fender-Bender Crash Test
11 Jun 2009, 07:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety thought to give insurers a bit more ammo to be used when you walk through the front door to make your claim. They again went after mini and micro cars, thi...
Audi Q5 Earns Top NHTSA Safety Pick
10 Jun 2009, 09:03 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Audi's new crossover Q5 was awarded a Top Safety Pick for model year 2009 from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Specifically, the 2009 Audi Q5 received a "good" rati...
2010 Ford Mustang Gets Top IIHS Safety Rating
19 May 2009, 08:07 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The 2010 Ford Mustang has just received the top 5-star safety rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), which means the car was also awarded the maximum rating for driver and pa...
2010 Lincoln MKZ Gets IIHS Top Safety Pick
7 May 2009, 07:24 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Ford proudly announced today that the 2010 Lincoln MKZ luxury midsize sedan received a Top Safety Pick rating from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), an award that underlines once again,...
Mercedes R Klasse, Lincoln MKZ Get IIHS Top Safety Pick Award
5 May 2009, 09:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The newest additions to the Insurance Institute's for Highway Safety (IIHS) Top Safety picks are the Mercedes R Klasse and the Lincoln MKZ. Following tests which included front, side and rear t...
IIHS Crash Test Videos: Small Vs. Midsized
15 Apr 2009, 08:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The IIHS small cars crash tests released yesterday, as we already told you, proved once again that when it comes to crashes involving small and medium cars, size does matter. The tests showed, as wa...
IIHS Front-to-Front Crash Test, Small Vs Midsized
14 Apr 2009, 07:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As we told you earlier today, IIHS set out to prove once and for all that in case of a collision between two different sized cars, the bigger one usually wins the fight. IIHS put to the test several...
Size Does Matter, IIHS Crash Tests Prove It
14 Apr 2009, 07:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As most of us know by now, instinctively, the size of the car does matter in a crash. Now, IIHS brings proof that this is indeed so, as they conducted frontal crash tests using a microcar or a minic...