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2010 Insurance Institute For Highway Safety rollover tests - click above for high-res images
Perish the thought, haters! The above
Lincoln MKT is getting its roof caved in not on aesthetic grounds, but rather to test its ability to survive a rollover accident. If you haven't guessed by now, the MKT did so well in the roof-crush test that the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) handed parent company
Ford a much coveted
Top Safety Pick award. Actually, the IIHS handed FoMoCo a hefty total of
five rollover-related Top Safety Pick awards. However we should note that one of the Ford products earning top marks is in fact the soon to be extinct
Mercury Millan, so really Ford only nabbed four - but who's counting? Other good-to-rollover-in Ford products include the
Flex,
Fusion and
Lincoln MKZ.
Speaking of thick-sculled corporate cousins,
Audi and
Volkswagen were handed a couple of Top Safety Picks, too. The 2010 Audi
A4 and
Q5 as well as the Volkswagen
Jetta SportWagen all earned top marks from the IIHS. As far as the Jetta goes, that's just one more reason to choose wagon over sedan. Finally, the new
2010 Hyundai Tucson gets the coveted TSP, and having recently driven the overly-stiff compact CUV, we're not at all surprised that its roof holds up to crushing. To get the dirt on the IIHS's methodology/read the press release,
make the jump.
[Source:
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety]
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