XC60 & S60 - IIHS Top Safety Pick + Award
Volvo XC60 and S60 Excel in NEW IIHS Crash Test - New Volvo Cars at DARCARS Volvo Cars
To reward 2013 models with superior crash protection, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is awarding the new Top Safety Pick + to vehicles earning good or acceptable ratings in the new IIHS small overlap test as well as top marks in other IIHS evaluations, including moderate frontal crashes, side crashes, rollovers, and rear crashes. We are extremely pleased to have the Volvo XC60 join the Volvo S60 in receiving this prestigious safety award.
In the test, 25% of a car's front end on the driver side strikes a 5-foot-tall barrier at 40 mph. The test is designed to replicate what happens when the front corner of a car collides with another vehicle or an object like a tree or utility pole. Outside of some automakers' providing grounds, such a test isn't currently anywhere else in the United States or Europe.
The Crash Tests
"Nearly every new car performs well in other frontal crash tests conducted by the Insitute and the federal government, but we still see more then 10,000 deaths in frontal crashes each year.", Insitute President Adrian Lund says. "Small overlap crashes are a mojor source of these fatalities. This new test program is based on years of analyzing real-world frontal crashes and then replicating them in our crash test facility to determine how people are being seriously injured and how cars can be designed to protect them better. We think this is the next stop in improving frontal crash protection."
Our Vision 2020
Our long-term vision at Volvo is that by 2020 nobody will be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo. Ultimately, that means designing cars that do not crash. Its unique and bold vision in our industry - after all, we've committed ourselves to a specific date. Not only that, in typical Volvo style, our long-term vision has regard for others, too. Because cars that don't crash not only keep their passengers safe - they also protect other road users, including pedestrians. We're working to achieve our Vision 2020 by teaming up with industry partners and government agencies, by fitting our cars with preventative and protective safety systems, and by studying how people behave in real-life traffic situations. All this helps us engineer innovations that focus on the most important thing of all: your safety and that of those around you.
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