DAILY NEWS Jan 4, 2013 8:51 AM
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced that 13 vehicles were recently awarded its Top Safety Pick+ award, which went to 2013 automobiles with high scores in IIHS tests.
To be named a Top Safety Pick+, the vehicles must be rated as having good occupant protection in at least four of five IIHS evaluations, and not less than acceptable in the fifth test. They must also attain scores of good or acceptable in IIHS's small overlap test, introduced this year.
"The small overlap test replicates what happens when the front corner of a car collides with another vehicle or an object like a tree or utility pole," Arlington, Va.-based IIHS stated in a press release. "In the test, 25% of a car's front end on the driver side strikes a five-foot (1.5-metre)-tall rigid barrier at 40 miles per hour (60 km/h). A Hybrid III dummy representing a 50th percentile male is belted in the driver seat."
As of Dec. 20, IIHS had evaluated 29 models in that test and named the 13 models which it says provide "the highest level of all-around crash protection."
Top Safety Pick+ Winners for 2013
Click on the links below to get more detail on each model.
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(4-door models)
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built after December 2012
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(4-door models)built after November 2012
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built after August 2012
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built after August 2012
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built after October 2012
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