The Chevrolet Cruze scored a maximum 5 stars in the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) making it Australia’s safest car. Electronic stability control, traction control, ABS, brake assist, electronic brakeforce distribution, six airbags, seatbelt reminders and pretensioners with load limiters are standard on the Australian Cruze sold with the Holden badge.
Over the next five days, Indian Autos Blog will publish one post on the Maruti Suzuki Ritz/Splash. Today we feature a colossal crash test clipping of the car. We’re no NASTRAN or crash test engineers. We’ve not specialized in destructive testing, but to the common man’s eye, it looks safer than many of the Chinese junk cars that we’ve seen tested.
Crash Test Lesson – The Crumple zone at the front is made of a material inferior in terms of strength compared to the passenger cells. It absorbs kinetic energy and dissipates it by crumbling.
Come back tomorrow for more information on the Splash/Ritz
The Suzuki SX4 has been put through the barrier at the recently concluded IIHS crash tests and Suzuki will be happy with the overall result.
The SX4 was given the highest possible “Good” rating in the side crash test. However the outcome was not all that great in the seat/head restraint testing.
The 2009-2010 Suzuki Kizashi has made earlier appearances when it was masked heavily under vinyl padding and when it was spotted sporting zebra stripes at the Nurburgring. Now, we have pictures of the Kizashi in a very distorted form – a crash test, to be precise. The 2009-2010 Suzuki Kizashi is eager to attack it’s D-Segment competitors like Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla Altis, Hyundai Sonata, Skoda Octavia and Volkswagen Jetta [ Read More ]
First the Kappa engine and then this. Hyundai is in the news for all the right reasons. Hyundai has been thriving to make safe cars and the crash test results of their i30 hatch at the EuroNCAP crash tests talk volumes of the research and engineering that has gone into making it. The Korean maker’s i30 has earned Euro NCAP’s top score for adult occupant protection – but only after [ Read More ]
