| The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety | | | | latter gets good in both front and side crash |
| (IIHS) released its most recent crash-test | | | | tests and marginal in the rear crash test. |
| ratings but did not endorse any models | | | | Toyota auto body parts are also meticulously |
| evaluated. Instead, said institute urged auto | | | | assembled to ensure safety of the car |
| consumers to stick with bigger, heavier | | | | occupants. |
| vehicles because they typically are safer for | | | | |
| motorists. IIHS real-life crash results also | | | | The worst performers in the IIHS crash-tests |
| revealed that subcompacts are not the best | | | | are Hyundai Accent and Kia Rio. Said cars |
| safety choice. This information was divulged | | | | earned acceptable rating in the front crash |
| by Adrian Lund, president of IIHS | | | | test but poor in the side and rear tests. |
| | | | "Hyundai is targeting July production to add |
| Subcompacts are the smallest vehicles on the | | | | the Accent to its list of vehicles equipped |
| road these days. The recorded crash rates | | | | with active head restraints," said Miles |
| involving subcompacts are higher than in | | | | Johnson Hyundai spokesman. The rear |
| other auto category. As a fact, the rates are | | | | crash-test rating is based on headrest |
| more than twice the death rates for midsize | | | | criteria. |
| and large vehicles. | | | | |
| | | | It was found out that the vehicles that were |
| IIHS evaluated a total of 9 cars weighing | | | | given high ratings were equipped with side |
| 2,500 pounds or less. Said cars are smaller | | | | air bags and head-protection systems. "Larger |
| than Honda Civic compact. This is because | | | | cars provide more protection, even slightly |
| body parts for Honda Civic are made heavier | | | | larger, and they get almost as good gas |
| and tougher. Crash ratings of the cars ranges | | | | mileage," Lund noted. "Some of the midsize |
| from good, followed by acceptable, marginal | | | | cars like the Accord and the Camry, if you |
| and poor. | | | | get them in the four-cylinder versions, have |
| | | | as good a gas mileage as the mini cars. If |
| Among the nine subcompacts Nissan Versa rates | | | | you really want to save fuel, buy a larger |
| the highest in 3 crash-test categories named | | | | car that's less powerful than a smaller |
| front, side and rear. Nissan OEM body parts | | | | lightweight vehicle that also sacrifices your |
| are engineered to stand the complexities of | | | | safety. |
| driving. Next to Versa is Toyota Yaris. The | | | | |