Soul, Prius and Insight earn IIHS Top Safety Pick awards
 

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<div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><sma ll>IIHS 2010 small car crash tests - Click above for high-res image gallery</small></strong></em></div>
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News comes today by way of the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/iihs">Insurance Institute for Highway Safety</a> that the 2010 Kia Soul, Toyota Prius and Honda Insight have all earned the group's coveted Top Safety Pick Award. That means each of the three vehicles managed to score the agency's highest rating of good in front, side, and rear tests and are equipped with electronic stability control (standard on the Prius and Soul, optional on the Insight).<br />
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Of course, this news also means that hybrid vehicle shoppers can rest assured knowing whichever hybrid hatchback happens to be on their wish list is a safe bet. See below for our complete galleries of the Kia Soul and Honda Insight being crash tested by the IIHS. No photos of the 2010 Toyota Prius crash test were available from the IIHS.<br />
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<div class="postgallery"><p><s trong>Gallery: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/iihs-2010-small-car-crash-testing/low/">IIHS 2010 Small Car Crash Testing</a></strong></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/iihs-2010-small-car-crash-testing/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/08/iihs-small-car-crash_0016_thumbnail.jpg" alt="iihs-small-car-crash_0016" title="iihs-small-car-crash_0016" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/iihs-2010-small-car-crash-testing/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/08/iihs-small-car-crash_0017_thumbnail.jpg" alt="iihs-small-car-crash_0017" title="iihs-small-car-crash_0017" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/iihs-2010-small-car-crash-testing/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/08/iihs-small-car-crash_0019_thumbnail.jpg" alt="iihs-small-car-crash_0019" title="iihs-small-car-crash_0019" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/iihs-2010-small-car-crash-testing/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/08/iihs-small-car-crash_0006_thumbnail.jpg" alt="iihs-small-car-crash_0006" title="iihs-small-car-crash_0006" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/iihs-2010-small-car-crash-testing/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/08/iihs-small-car-crash_0008_thumbnail.jpg" alt="iihs-small-car-crash_0008" title="iihs-small-car-crash_0008" /></a></div><br />
[Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety]<br /><p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/13/soul-prius-and-insight-earn-iihs-top-safety-pick-awards/">Soul, Prius and Insight earn IIHS Top Safety Pick awards</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:59:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/13/soul-prius-and-insight-earn-iihs-top-safety-pick-awards/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19128580/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/13/soul-prius-and-insight-earn-iihs-top-safety-pick-awards/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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