The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently got their hands on the newest Buick, the compact Verano. It may be the brand’s smallest offering available, but packed into the tidy sedan is a plethora of safety bits and pieces that would make any of its brothers and sisters proud. Even still, the IIHS isn’t an easy organization to please and their revised testing structure proves just that. But after each crash evaluation was complete, the Verano rolled away with the highest honor, thus making each Buick on the market today a 2012 Top Safety Pick.
“Buick is building state-of-the-art crash protection into every model from the ground up,” said IIHS President Adrian Lund. In 2010, the safety evaluation group threw the automotive industry a curve ball by adding extra crash testing to their routine. With a total of four tests, any new vehicle must earn a “good” score in the Front, Side, Rear and Rollover assessments in order to receive a Top Safety Pick. On top of that, each vehicle must come with a form of stability control to even be considered. Packed with 10 air bags, StabiliTrak electronic stability control, a collapsible pedal assembly for reduced leg injury, four wheel disk brakes with ABS all wrapped in a structure made up of more than 60 percent high-strength steel, the Verano passed each test with flying colors. It now joins the rest of the line up which includes the Regal, LaCrosse and Enclave to become a member of one safe family.
Source: Buick
