Just heard on the news that Toyota, Honda, and BMW were the worst performers in rear-end collisions. Amazingly, FORD was listed as good, along with Nissan. I don't care. I LOVE my TCH!!!

 

I read once that they don't focus (testing) on rear-end collision because severe rear-end accidents make-up a small precentage of serious accidents every year.

 

I don't think any of them do too good in a rear ender.

 

Only certain Toyota's were in the poor category. The 2007 Camry was rated marginal. Here is the web site that does the ratings:
http://www.iihs.org/news/default.html

And here is the PDF document that lists all the cars that were tested for rear end accidents:
http://www.iihs.org/news/2007/iihs_news_040507.pdf

 

Is this hitting or being hit? I was driving downtown on a cold day a couple weeks ago, and I hit an icy patch in between two tall buildings (ie. no sun to melt the ice) and actually tapped another car in the rear, but fortunately the ABS kicked in enough that there was no mark on either car, so we just called it no foul (lucky for me she didn't have any old dents she wanted to get rid of). Freaked me out though, cause everywhere else in the city the sun had completely dried the roads that day.

 

GOD GMAN!!
What is with all the "cute" crap??

 

Isn't the reduced performance in rear end collisions based mostly (if not entirely) on the fact that the headrests aren't particularly good? (Read: whiplash)

I thought I read this a couple of months ago when this study came out.

 

Yes! It's not based on how well the structure crushes and protects.


Don't forget about the BATTERY that will EXPLODE in the read ender...

 

Small percentage, sure.. But I just bought my TCH as a replacement for the above Grand Prix.

Chris Green

 

WOW! Chris, I hope that you are your passengers (if any) were not injured too badly.

Enjoy the TCH!