Toyota’s redesigned Corolla has passed the crash tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The Corolla got top marks, good, in four tests — the moderate overlap front, side, rollover and rear — and gets a top-safety pick designation. But it does not get the highest rating, which adds a “plus.”
That’s because it is rated marginal in the IIHS test that is bedeviling most automakers. It’s called the small overlap front crash test, and it duplicates what would happen if the car crashed into a pole on the driver’s side.
“Structural performance was poor and the driver’s space was seriously compromised by intruding structure,” the IIHS, the testing arm of the insurance industry, writes.
Source: USA Today via Detroit Free Press
