What muscle car is safest? 2016 Mustang vs. Camaro vs Challenger
Mustang outclasses Camaro, Challenger crash test.
Greg Gardner Detroit Free Press Updated November 34 a m and 25 May 2016.
The Ford Mustang performed a bit better than the Chevrolet Camaro muscle car Dodge Challenger and rivals in a series of crash tests recently conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Although none of the three won Top of the Institute of Security Choice, which requires good or better grades in five impact resistance testing, the Mustang came closest.
The Camaro fell short in a class and do not have a collision avoidance system before available, also known as collision warning tests before Challenger found to be most in need of improvement.
Given that sports cars have more accidents high, it is particularly important that they offer the best possible protection of occupants in an accident, said Adrian Lund, IIHS president.
It was the first time the institute has compared these three muscle car models as a group were the heaviest losses among passenger vehicles for repair of collision damage in the collision coverage, according to the data Highway Loss Data Institute.
The current generation Mustang is our safest ever, Ford said in a statement In addition to coming close to winning a Top Safety Pick from IIHS, the 2016 Mustang also won best overall rating of 5 star safety the federal government.
The tests were performed on each model powered by an 8-cylinder engine.
The only criterion on which Mustang fell below a good rating was on the small overlap frontal crash test reproduces what happens when the front corner of a vehicle strikes another vehicle, object or an electric pole in the test, 25 of the vehicle front end on the side of the driver collides with a rigid obstacle height of 5 feet to 40 h mp.
The Mustang received an acceptable rating on this test, while the Camaro was considered good.
The Challenger carried out during side impact tests, Lund said, but its structure collapsed in the small overlap front collision.
The front wheel has been forced rearwardly into the passenger compartment and the intrusion of the left floor imprisoned dummy deformed foot and ankle, said Lund.
The safety cage of the Camaro, which was redesigned for the 2016 model, well done, better than Mustang maintain a large survival space for a dummy in the driver seat.
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