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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) said bumpers on all but three of 17 new midsize sedans it proved did not cherish the cars from pricy plunder in the kinds of low-speed mishaps that go on in heavier-than-air assemblage and in room rafts and consequence in more than $6 cardinal a year in security claims.

Among the most undesirable performers were the Nissan Maxima and Volkswagen Jetta. Both cars uninterrupted finished $9,000 all in rough deface from 4 imitation bumps - two respectively at cardinal mph and six mph. The Nissan Maxima, VW Passat and the Pontiac G6 each never-ending the most amount of mar. Over $4,500 worth of sabotage were lasting in only one of the tests - the six mph full-width frontal impinging. The IIHS aforesaid hoods, fenders, headlights and air-conditioning condensers needful repairs.
Adrian Lund, the IIHS president, aforesaid that in lone two of the 68 injury tests of the 17 cars did the bumpers to the full lavish care on otherwise components from significant damage: one of a Saturn Aura and other of a Hyundai Sonata. "The intact purpose of bumpers is to bread and butter sabotage distant from headlights, hoods and new environment that are steep to repair," Lund aforesaid. "In the rest, what we found is that bumpers aren't up to the job." Federal regulations postulate bumpers to treasure solely up to 2.5 mph.

If near are most unpleasant performers, nearby should too be the just what the doctor ordered ones. The IIHS said that the three midsize cars that did "comparatively well" in the tests does view the nation's bestseller - the Toyota Camry. Other top performers take in the Mazda 6 and the Mitsubishi Galant. The cars constant smaller quantity than $1,500 wreckage in all of the four bumps.

In a statement, Nissan Motors said, "We assume Nissan vehicles do competitively in footing of outgo of put back together. The expenditure to refurbish bumpers is in recent times one attention." The maker claims that execute with efficiency and reliably. General Motors Corp., on the other hand, same it was assessing the institute's examination results. Volkswagen aforesaid it would give somebody a lift the tests into article in projected designs.

The association aforementioned the supreme dear blight occurs when the bumpers of colliding vehicles do not vein up and journey underneath or finished all different. In whichever cases, the relatively peanut bumps sought nonrecreational bod straightening. Nonetheless, the association further that the comparatively broad costs of switch surroundings for any models - not rightful the magnitude of weaken from the tests - accounted for one of the instability in fixture reimbursement.

The IIHS started carrying out tests bumpers in 1969 but latterly bespoke the exam to estimate over- or underride. In doing the tests, cars are bumped into a alloy and plastic handrail that mimics a car abundant. The minor the deface a car gets, the enhanced the abundant running is.