ANTAUS Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/small-overlap-crash-protection-front-crash-prevention-key-to-2016-awards-48-models-earn-top-safety-pick-award-13-earn-top-safety-pick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonj80 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 With 0 Fords on the list shouldn't this be in the competitors forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steveottawa Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 F150 Supercrew is there But, I agree with your point. We should have way more there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonj80 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 F150 Supercrew is there But, I agree with your point. We should have way more there. Not for the top safety pick plus rating, F-150 Crew is only for top safety pick. With '16 in production wonder when they will retest the supercab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvrsvt Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 This is a stupid award....you meet one set of goals, the IIHS just keeps adding more to it so the next model year doesn't meet the criteria, but yet that car is just as safe as it was the previous year. Like it has been stated before, cars are going to get so safe that they'll want the windshield to be be puncture proof against a sharp metal pointed object aimed at your head coming at you at 60 mph....which is .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of actual accidents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Most accidents aren't fatal regardless of what you're driving. Some are fatal no matter what. The probability of being in an accident where you would be killed in a 4 star vehicle but survive in a 5 star vehicle is incredibly small and getting smaller each year. But the cost to mfrs and consumers of complying with all these new tests and feature requirements is growing. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30 OTT 6 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 This is a stupid award....you meet one set of goals, the IIHS just keeps adding more to it so the next model year doesn't meet the criteria, but yet that car is just as safe as it was the previous year. Like it has been stated before, cars are going to get so safe that they'll want the windshield to be be puncture proof against a sharp metal pointed object aimed at your head coming at you at 60 mph....which is .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of actual accidents. IIHS won't stop testing until all claims against insurance companies stop. Once vehicles are injury proof IIHS will start on fender protection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transitman Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Most fatalities occur because the collision is so catastrophic it isn't survivable, or the occupants aren't using the safety restraints and are killed by blunt force trauma or are ejected from the vehicle. No rating is going to change the latter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mettech Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Point is... other companies engineer their vehicles that make the list. USA companies?... not so much.. It is..what it is.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Point is... other companies engineer their vehicles that make the list. USA companies?... not so much.. It is..what it is.. Do you feel any less safe driving a Ford because it's not a "top safety pick plus"? If those other companies want to go out of their way chasing the IIHS carrot with little to no real world benefit - so be it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edstock Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 "with little to no real world benefit" — it is . . . what it is . . . and the real world is what it is. Meanwhile the Ford company engineers its vehicles for the latter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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