Toyota Prius and Honda Insight Hybrids Earn the Top Safety Pick Award

Admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:04:41 +0000

This is good news for hybrids lover. According to Insurance Institute for Highway Safety or IIHS which announced the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight to get Top Safety Pick award based on front, side, and rear crash testing. This award makes a clear statement that hybrids not just fuel efficient but can also get high level of safety too.

Toyota Prius on all its model and Honda Insight on the Insight EX and LX models has requirements to earn the IIHS Top Safety Pick award. Prius and Insight has good ratings in ratings in all three tests (front, side, and rear crash testing) and offer electronic stability control too.

The Toyota Prius Hybrid has an average efficiency rating of 51 mpg, this rating make it as the most fuel efficient vehicle on the market today. The Honda Insight has a combined city and highway rating of 41 mpg.

The IIHS’s side test simulates a crash with a pickup truck or SUV going at 31 mph. The frontal test they use vehicle that have same weight as the test car and moving at 0 mph. The insurance group also simulates a stationary vehicle being rear-ended by a car moving at 20 mph. The test result tell us that the side crash test results apply no matter what size cars we are comparing, but in the front crash test results are meaningful only when you using the same weight comparing models.

In the Honda Insight’s front crash test, the side curtain air bag prevented the dummy’s head from any hitting structures, although there was a risk of rib fractures in the side impact test – but the risk is slightly. In the Toyota Prius’s frontal test, the driver’s head hit the pillar (but the impact was relatively low) between the back and the front windows. The driver dummy’s head suffered slightly more on an impact when the car hit the steering wheel though the air bag.

The video of 2009 Toyota Prius crash test

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2010 Kia Soul from Seoul

Admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:50:48 +0000

Korean automakers began to penetrate international markets in the early 1990. In their first penetrate, many ‘car lovers’ just deemed Korean cars as cheap cars – in terms of price and what the car actually is. And if they compare it with Japanese cars, it always seemed to lack the kind of quality and refinement an established company could provide.

However, Korean automakers are moving at such an incredible pace and overcome in many countries in terms of sales and are ‘defeating’ many American brands (such as GM) on American soil of late. And one of the great cars from Korean automakers is 2010 Kia Soul from Seoul.

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The 2010 Kia Soul is a mini MPV (Multi-Purpose-Vehicle) produced in Seoul, South Korea for the global market. This Kia vehicle has a great performance and safety. This ‘142 horsepower car’ earned the Euro New Car Assessment Program or Euro NCAP maximum five star safety rating and get award from IIHS or Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in the United State as the ‘Top Safety Pick’. Moreover, 2010 Kia Soul gets named as the one of the ten most exciting vehicles of 2010 from Time Magazine.

So, it makes sense if I encourage you to see this car before you purchase one. You can get more detail about 2010 Kia Soul from thecarconnection.com. This is the best place on the web for car reviews. You will find out the best, up to date, and complete information about 2010 Kia Soul and all cars in the market in this site.

2010 Kia Soul from Seoul

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