Just when it looked like every new car on the road would earn IIHA's Top Safety Pick Plus designation, the rules get changed and the winners were winnowed down considerably.
To win, cars not only had to ace front, side, head restraint and roof crash tests, but the "small overlap crash test," which simulates crashing into a pole on the driver's side of the car.
"We've made it more difficult for manufacturers this year," says IIHS President Adrian Lund in a statement. "Following a gradual phase-in, the small overlap crash is now part of our basic battery of tests, and good or acceptable performance should be part of every vehicle's safety credentials." http://usat.ly/1cWUViF
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