looking@audi

No Audi's on the new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety List.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Twenty-two vehicles earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's highest safety award for 2014, TOP SAFETY PICK+, thanks to a high level of protection in crashes and the availability of front crash prevention technology to avoid many collisions in the first place. An additional 17 earn TOP SAFETY PICK by meeting the crashworthiness criteria alone

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/deskto...ards-from-iihs

snagitseven

Nothing really new here. While Audi has done well in recent years with the traditional crash tests, they did not do well with the new overlap front test last year. So, it's best not to hit a large immovable object on the front corner of the car.

q5q7

surprised to see Camry on the list, didn't CR just drop camry out of recommended list weeks ago because of its poor small overlap crash rating?

looking@audi

The Camry was specifically noted as models built after November 2013.


Toyota Camry
built after November 2013

q5q7

They really distorted the meaning of "top pick", in 2013/11 it is a poor rating, then in 2013/12 the manufacturer tweaked something to pass the test and then it become a "top pick"? I don't get it.

q5q7

btw it is getting off topicjust not happy with how the media or IIHS in this case works.

directorguy7

Sooooo glad another person sees how utterly annoying and overhyped (by the institute) and pointless this test is.

Just by looking at the damage of the cars that "passed" this test one can probably change the position a little and get totally different and bad results. Even the good results look like you ain't going to be feeling good after it.
Overall though, as Snagit implies, the odds of such an event are very rare for drivers who actually know how to keep a car in between the two lines. Tests should test the most common crash, not the worst possible situation that you have to work at to get your self in. (steps off soap box.)

in2dwww

How well does Audi do compared to the IIHS picks in the Euro NCAP tests?

keithl

If I recall the a majority of auto fatalities are small offset crashes and that is because those accidents happen on two lane rural roads when a driver crosses the line and hits you. The IIHS develops their tests to help with the most common causes of auto injury, their funded by Insurance companies who are motivated to reduce claims.
I am not worried about my driving I am worried about Suzy/Johnny as they are texting or yapping on their cell and drifts across the line into me around a a bend.

If you have been in a bad wreck you appreciate the safer cars today compared to just 10 years ago.

Richard Solomon

>12 yrs ago I recall this guy had nothing bad to say about the cars:
https://www.audiworld.com/forums/sho....php?t=1787376

Too bad it looks like the picture is gone, but it was one wadded up TT!