The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently evaluated2012-year-model midsize luxury and near-luxury cars in a new smalloverlap frontal crash test. Of the 11 vehicles evaluated, onlythree earned a “good” or “acceptable” rating, with the remainingeight cars earning either “marginal” or “poor” ratings.
The new test was designed to replicate what happens when thefront corner of a car collides with another vehicle or an object.With a dummy belted in the driver seat, 25 percent of the car'sfront end on the driver side would strike a five-foot-tall rigidbarrier while traveling at 40 miles per hour. Vehicle performancewas rated in three categories: structure, restraints andkinematics, in addition to dummy injury measures.
Click next to see which vehicles were rated “good,”“acceptable,” “marginal,” and “poor.”
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