Seven Trucks Come in, Only One Earns IIHS Top Safety Pick – News – Car and Driver, Car and Driver Blog
Seven Pickup Trucks Inject, Only One Emerges with an IIHS Top Safety Pick
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is challenging the reputation of full-size pickup trucks as indestructible brutes with its latest round of crash-test results. After putting extended-cab and crew-cab versions of the Ford F-150, Chevrolet Silverado, Ram 1500, and Toyota Tundra through its total battery of tests, the Ford was the only model to ace the small-overlap crash test and procure the “good” rating that’s required to earn the Top Safety Pick award.
Of the other models tested, crew-cab and extended-cab versions of the Ram one thousand five hundred earned a “marginal” rating in the small-overlap test, as did the crew-cab Toyota Tundra and the crew-cab Chevrolet Silverado (which also includes the GMC Sierra). Extended-cab versions of the Tundra and the General Motors pickups fared slightly better, earning an “acceptable” rating, but the IIHS noted that all of these models permitted a significant amount of intrusion into the passenger compartment, most notably in the driver’s footwell. “Drivers in these pickups would need help freeing their gams from the wreckage following a small-overlap crash,” said IIHS Vehicle Research Center vice president Raul Arbelaez in a statement.
The IIHS says it determined to test two different assets styles of these trucks because it found a disparity inbetween extended-cab and crew-cab models during small-overlap testing of the Ford F-150 last year. While crew-cab models passed the test with flying colors, the extended-cab models were missing steel structural members to prevent the front wheels from intruding into the cabin. Since then, Ford has fitted extra structure to all versions of the F-150 to ensure that every cab configuration passes the test; only the revised extended-cab Ford was tested this time around because the squad cab had already passed.
The F-150 still misses out on the very best IIHS rating, called Top Safety Pick +, because its optional forward-collision warning system earned only a “basic” rating. To earn the “+,” these front-crash prevention systems must be rated as either “advanced” or “superior.” The Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are also available with forward-collision warning systems that, like the Ford’s, earned a “basic” rating in the IIHS’s tests.
If Ford’s act is precedent, GM, Fiat-Chrysler, and Toyota seem likely to react within the next few months with structural switches to improve their respective trucks’ spectacle on these IIHS tests.
Seven Trucks Come in, Only One Earns IIHS Top Safety Pick – News – Car and Driver, Car and Driver Blog
Seven Pickup Trucks Come in, Only One Emerges with an IIHS Top Safety Pick
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is challenging the reputation of full-size pickup trucks as indestructible brutes with its latest round of crash-test results. After putting extended-cab and crew-cab versions of the Ford F-150, Chevrolet Silverado, Ram 1500, and Toyota Tundra through its utter battery of tests, the Ford was the only model to ace the small-overlap crash test and procure the “good” rating that’s required to earn the Top Safety Pick award.
Of the other models tested, crew-cab and extended-cab versions of the Ram one thousand five hundred earned a “marginal” rating in the small-overlap test, as did the crew-cab Toyota Tundra and the crew-cab Chevrolet Silverado (which also includes the GMC Sierra). Extended-cab versions of the Tundra and the General Motors pickups fared slightly better, earning an “acceptable” rating, but the IIHS noted that all of these models permitted a significant amount of intrusion into the passenger compartment, most notably in the driver’s footwell. “Drivers in these pickups would need help freeing their gams from the wreckage following a small-overlap crash,” said IIHS Vehicle Research Center vice president Raul Arbelaez in a statement.
The IIHS says it determined to test two different figure styles of these trucks because it found a disparity inbetween extended-cab and crew-cab models during small-overlap testing of the Ford F-150 last year. While crew-cab models passed the test with flying colors, the extended-cab models were missing steel structural members to prevent the front wheels from intruding into the cabin. Since then, Ford has fitted extra structure to all versions of the F-150 to ensure that every cab configuration passes the test; only the revised extended-cab Ford was tested this time around because the squad cab had already passed.
The F-150 still misses out on the very best IIHS rating, called Top Safety Pick +, because its optional forward-collision warning system earned only a “basic” rating. To earn the “+,” these front-crash prevention systems must be rated as either “advanced” or “superior.” The Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are also available with forward-collision warning systems that, like the Ford’s, earned a “basic” rating in the IIHS’s tests.
If Ford’s act is precedent, GM, Fiat-Chrysler, and Toyota seem likely to react within the next few months with structural switches to improve their respective trucks’ spectacle on these IIHS tests.
Seven Trucks Come in, Only One Earns IIHS Top Safety Pick – News – Car and Driver, Car and Driver Blog
Seven Pickup Trucks Inject, Only One Emerges with an IIHS Top Safety Pick
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is challenging the reputation of full-size pickup trucks as indestructible brutes with its latest round of crash-test results. After putting extended-cab and crew-cab versions of the Ford F-150, Chevrolet Silverado, Ram 1500, and Toyota Tundra through its total battery of tests, the Ford was the only model to ace the small-overlap crash test and procure the “good” rating that’s required to earn the Top Safety Pick award.
Of the other models tested, crew-cab and extended-cab versions of the Ram one thousand five hundred earned a “marginal” rating in the small-overlap test, as did the crew-cab Toyota Tundra and the crew-cab Chevrolet Silverado (which also includes the GMC Sierra). Extended-cab versions of the Tundra and the General Motors pickups fared slightly better, earning an “acceptable” rating, but the IIHS noted that all of these models permitted a significant amount of intrusion into the passenger compartment, most notably in the driver’s footwell. “Drivers in these pickups would need help freeing their gams from the wreckage following a small-overlap crash,” said IIHS Vehicle Research Center vice president Raul Arbelaez in a statement.
The IIHS says it determined to test two different assets styles of these trucks because it found a disparity inbetween extended-cab and crew-cab models during small-overlap testing of the Ford F-150 last year. While crew-cab models passed the test with flying colors, the extended-cab models were missing steel structural members to prevent the front wheels from intruding into the cabin. Since then, Ford has fitted extra structure to all versions of the F-150 to ensure that every cab configuration passes the test; only the revised extended-cab Ford was tested this time around because the squad cab had already passed.
The F-150 still misses out on the very best IIHS rating, called Top Safety Pick +, because its optional forward-collision warning system earned only a “basic” rating. To earn the “+,” these front-crash prevention systems must be rated as either “advanced” or “superior.” The Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are also available with forward-collision warning systems that, like the Ford’s, earned a “basic” rating in the IIHS’s tests.
If Ford’s activity is precedent, GM, Fiat-Chrysler, and Toyota seem likely to react within the next few months with structural switches to improve their respective trucks’ spectacle on these IIHS tests.
Seven Trucks Come in, Only One Earns IIHS Top Safety Pick – News – Car and Driver, Car and Driver Blog
Seven Pickup Trucks Inject, Only One Emerges with an IIHS Top Safety Pick
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is challenging the reputation of full-size pickup trucks as indestructible animals with its latest round of crash-test results. After putting extended-cab and crew-cab versions of the Ford F-150, Chevrolet Silverado, Ram 1500, and Toyota Tundra through its total battery of tests, the Ford was the only model to ace the small-overlap crash test and procure the “good” rating that’s required to earn the Top Safety Pick award.
Of the other models tested, crew-cab and extended-cab versions of the Ram one thousand five hundred earned a “marginal” rating in the small-overlap test, as did the crew-cab Toyota Tundra and the crew-cab Chevrolet Silverado (which also includes the GMC Sierra). Extended-cab versions of the Tundra and the General Motors pickups fared slightly better, earning an “acceptable” rating, but the IIHS noted that all of these models permitted a significant amount of intrusion into the passenger compartment, most notably in the driver’s footwell. “Drivers in these pickups would need help freeing their gams from the wreckage following a small-overlap crash,” said IIHS Vehicle Research Center vice president Raul Arbelaez in a statement.
The IIHS says it determined to test two different figure styles of these trucks because it found a disparity inbetween extended-cab and crew-cab models during small-overlap testing of the Ford F-150 last year. While crew-cab models passed the test with flying colors, the extended-cab models were missing steel structural members to prevent the front wheels from intruding into the cabin. Since then, Ford has fitted extra structure to all versions of the F-150 to ensure that every cab configuration passes the test; only the revised extended-cab Ford was tested this time around because the squad cab had already passed.
The F-150 still misses out on the very best IIHS rating, called Top Safety Pick +, because its optional forward-collision warning system earned only a “basic” rating. To earn the “+,” these front-crash prevention systems must be rated as either “advanced” or “superior.” The Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are also available with forward-collision warning systems that, like the Ford’s, earned a “basic” rating in the IIHS’s tests.
If Ford’s act is precedent, GM, Fiat-Chrysler, and Toyota seem likely to react within the next few months with structural switches to improve their respective trucks’ spectacle on these IIHS tests.
