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The best selling minivan has earned the IIHS Top Safety Pick award. The 2012 Chrysler Town & Country joins the Honda Odyssey, the Dodge Grand Caravan, the Volkswagen Routan and Toyota Sienna at the top of IIHS’s rankings.

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All-new Ford Ranger is the first pickup tested by the Euro NCAP to achieve a five-star top rating. The Ranger’s overall score was 89%, one of the highest regardless of class. The new Ford Ranger received the best rating ever for pedestrian protection among the cars tested by the Euro NCAP since 1997, with an [...]

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a list of 74 vehicles for the 2012 model year that it plans on crash testing. The vehicles include 42 passengers cars, 22 SUVs, eight trucks and two vans. NHTSA claims the list represents about 81 percent of the 2012 model year vehicles that will be on [...]

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The Saab 9-4X (U.S. customers knows her brother as Cadillac SRX) has been given a “Top Pick” designation from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, does that mean that the Saab should also get the thumbs up? Yep. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has just named the 9-4X a “Top Pick” because the luxurious [...]

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The electric Nissan Leaf has become the first plug-in car to receive five stars from the NCAP (European New Car Assessment Program). Euro NCAP tests vehicles in frontal impact, side impact, side pole impact and the potential for whiplash.

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The 2011 Buick Regal has been examined by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), and the results have netted “Good” ratings for front, side, rear and rollover impact protection. The 2011 Buick Regal is the seventh vehicle from General Motors to earn a Top Safety Pick award, which includes the aforementioned rollover test where the [...]

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World cheapest, Indian-built car, the Tata Nano, has passed its first European safety tests. Indian engineers brought two Nanos to the UK test house MIRA to put them through a 50 km/h side impact test and a 56 km/h offset frontal impact test. As we know the two tests are the min required for a [...]

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The all new model of the euro Honda Accord (also known in the United States as the Acura TSX) has been awarded with 5-stars under Euro NCAP’s safety rating scheme. In the previous rating system, the Accord had a 5 star adult occupant, 4 star child occupant and 3 star pedestrian protection scores Euro NCAP’s [...]

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Coolest crash test from german ADAC: tiny Fiat 500 vs. massive Audi Q7. It seems a couple of bad things happened to the Fiat 500. Firstly the door deformed, which means in an accident it’s going to be difficult to get the driver & passengers out for medical treatment. The second thing was that the [...]

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Here??™s coolest commercial video. It??™s some sort of Renault car ballet that outlines the 5 stars safety Renault cars provide.

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