NHTSA - E gets top grade!
NHTSA - E gets top grade!
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cool, thanks for posting that. the rollover rating where that high proobly because its the first sedan to have the sensors, thats cool. evn e C240 i believe is 2nd, two mbs on the top
, thanks for the link
, thanks for the link
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Great results. It's right up there with the Kia Sorrento and the smaller 350Z. Seems like you shouldn't read too much into the test results. I'm not saying that the Mercedes is good or bad, but when the Sorrento scores as well as the E, then something must be wrong.
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Originally posted by 6.3
Civic had a better frontal rating for both passenger and driver then E class. So headon 40mph collision is safer in econobox than $60000 Merceeds?
Civic had a better frontal rating for both passenger and driver then E class. So headon 40mph collision is safer in econobox than $60000 Merceeds?
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Originally posted by brianhn1
I didnt notice that. But arent the two cars in two different car groups?
I didnt notice that. But arent the two cars in two different car groups?
Yes, because they are in different weight classes. All things constant, a heavier car is safer than a lighter car in a multi-vehicle accident. You really can't directly compare the 2 via "star" ratings.
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You are right about the comparison, and I'd rather be in a Benz then in a Civic at the time of an accident. However 4 stars is less then 5 and all Hondas there got 5 stars on front side impact. I don't think that they test them any different because they are in a different category ie. slower impact or whatever . 4 stars simply means that the dummy has a bigger chance of being hurt in Benz than in a Honda according to their test. That's how I understand it and my assumption that's how everybody else will.
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relevance of weight category in testing
Take a look at this cite: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/testin.../Info.html#iq6
The frontal crash testing is done by driving vehicles into a barrier. This is the equivalent of driving into an oncoming car of the same size. So the Honda, being a medium, in effect has an easiser test than the E, which is a heavy.
So if you are planning to drive into a wall, you are better off in the Honda than in your E, and it may be fair to say that in this regard the Honda is better enginereed than the E; but the crash results do not say whether, if a Honda and an E hit head on, which car you would be better off to be in.
Although I love my E, and it does pretty well, there are cars in its weight class which do better.
The frontal crash testing is done by driving vehicles into a barrier. This is the equivalent of driving into an oncoming car of the same size. So the Honda, being a medium, in effect has an easiser test than the E, which is a heavy.
So if you are planning to drive into a wall, you are better off in the Honda than in your E, and it may be fair to say that in this regard the Honda is better enginereed than the E; but the crash results do not say whether, if a Honda and an E hit head on, which car you would be better off to be in.
Although I love my E, and it does pretty well, there are cars in its weight class which do better.
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Ratings system
I think star ratings are proportional to other vehicles in the given class, but not proportional to all vehicles- you can only compare the ratings of cars in the same class, since they were judged against each other. The Civic was given its five-star rating based on other similar vehicles, but not all vehicles... that's how I understand the system works. But it is correct that this can be misleading, because people will see 4 stars for one car and 5 stars for another, in the same test category, and logically the 4 star car had performed worse...
