Although most luxury cars do rather well in crash tests while the IIHS utilizes the standard testing methods that have been used for years, they haven’t been performing as well as they should when faced with a new partial front impact.
Hoping to push the industry to further improve the safety of tomorrow’s cars, an influential insurance trade group has launched a new test designed to simulate a very common real world crash situation.
And of the 11 new compact luxury sedans put through the test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, only two earned a “good” rating while one other was rated “acceptable.” Read More
