2015 Ford F-150 compared to 2014 F-150 - Crash test to compare repair costs
July 30, 2015 at 2 h 14 by Clifford Atiyeh Photography by IIHS.
The Ford F-150 ACED a series of crash tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and has earned top safety nonprofit group Take note to note, however, is that the honor was only granted to SuperCrew body style, the best-selling version of the truck.
The four-door SuperCrew has passed all the tests with the right highest possible rating because Ford installs steel elements front and rear wheel arches front in yellow below to prevent the wheels from entering 'cabin space, but the company doesn t fit in Supercab or regular organs of the cab.
Ford installed steel reinforcements on top, yellow in its 2015 F-150 SuperCrew truck and not other body styles.
During the front-small overlap IIHS test, which simulates hit a pole or head on the car by contacting 25 percent of the front surface of a vehicle at 40 MPH, the cage body SuperCrew remained largely intact with little risk of injury, the group said the smaller sensor SuperCab F-150 shown above has been marginal due to significant intrusion of the passenger cabin, such as the dashboard and the steering wheel has come dangerously close to the chest skin from the buckled piers and other components of the body seriously compromise the survival space of the driver, the IIHS nominal structure of the F-150 as poor, which is less than marginal and worst rating vehicles must get a good rating or acceptable group in all tests to qualify as a Top Safety Pick.
This shortchanges buyers could choose the extended cab thinking that it offers the same protection in this type of accident that the cabin crew said David Zuby, chief research officer of the Institute It doesn t .
Automotive News reported on the various structures published in June prompted the IIHS test both body styles F-150 instead of the most popular variant, as with all the other cars, it tests While it is not uncommon to see cars with variable structures accident in the US compared to abroad in the United States has its own roof crush standards and more stringent rules, including side curtain airbags, it is the first time the IIHS has witnessed these divergent results for a car model US -specified as a result, the IIHS says he's planning to crash test several styles of other body pick- up this year, and it asks whether other vehicle manufacturers will also strengthen trims he knows the IIHS will test.
Compare the performance of this 2015 Ford F-150 SuperCrew with that of the 2015 Ford F-150 SuperCab picture above.
Ford responded to Automotive News saying it will add countermeasures against 2016 regular cab and extended SuperCab F-150s, said the publication that the type of measure against and structure varies Cabin Type In car declaration and Ford driver said, we addressed the crash small overlap front IIHS in our SuperCrew high first volume, which represents 83 percent of 2015 retail sales F150 We add cons-measures in the SuperCab and regular cab in the 2016 model year based on data from IIHS, both vehicles offer a level of protection similar to those occupants of the SuperCrew F-150 program was on track when the test was introduced in 2012 we evaluating specific changes we make to the cab and SuperCab regularly It is important that the changes do not compromise the performance on other crash tests.
In the history of AN in June, Ford said: We optimize each cabin structure depending on many factors, including the style of the cabin, weight, wheelbase, powertrain and transmission to meet regulatory requirements and achieve public domain assessments These assessments publicly clarified by the Ford YEAR report this week to be crash test.
2015 Ford F-150 SuperCab left and 2015 Ford F-150 SuperCrew right.
First introduced in 2012 forced automakers to quickly adopt the changes after the IIHS found that most of the new cars, including luxury sedans weren t strong enough to prevent significant injury in this type of accident Toyota common, for example, the crash test small overlap, launched a 2014 Camry 5 years bearing precisely on the structure of the body relative to the test, and other manufacturers have made similar improvements as quickly as the year following model.
This story was updated to include the Ford C D statement regarding the measures it intends to take to update the SuperCab models and regular cab F-150 for 2016.
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