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Well, if you needed another reason not to buy the Accent, here it is: Awful IIHS scores. It's pretty much a death trap. Side impact: POOR Rear impact: POOR Front impact: Acceptable The Accent is the only small car tested, aside from the Aveo, that didn't receive a good frontal test. In addition, both the Yaris and Fit received good side impact scores (and good frontal impact). These scores pretty much solidify what many have suspected all along, exploding airbags won't make up from a poorly constructed body. Measures taken from the dummy indicate that rib fractures and/or internal organ injuries plus a fracture of the pelvis would be likely in a crash of this severity. In addition, loading to the shoulder was excessive. Yikes!
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Replying to: germancarfan1 (May 30, 2006 1:56 am) If Hyundai doesn't address this issue aggressively, it will definitely hurt sales since there are other small cars out there available with standard SABs that did much better in the IIHS tests. The fact that the IIHS released the results tells me Hyundai doesn't plan to do anything in the near future, otherwise it's typical for the IIHS to hold up publishing the results before the manufacturer has made some modifications and requested a re-test.
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Replying to: backy (Dec 19, 2006 7:33 am) The fact is, Hyundai would rather save money and equipp its cars with air bags aplenty, then actually spend the R&D and manufacuring costs to produce a safe structered car. Hyundai does have a ways to go.
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Replying to: germancarfan1 (Dec 19, 2006 7:39 am)
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Replying to: backy (Dec 19, 2006 7:46 am) If I was Hyundai, I'd drop the Accent line completely. They don't sell well and all the model does is hurt the reputation of the other models that are decent.
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Replying to: germancarfan1 (Dec 19, 2006 7:50 am)  I've seen that opinion stated many times in Town Hall. Also, we don't know yet how Hyundai will respond to these results, or whether it's possible to improve them without major changes to the car.
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Replying to: germancarfan1 (May 30, 2006 1:56 am) Here they are. Not far off what German Car Employee reports . . . but not exactly fully truthful (as usual), either. http://www.iihs.org/ratings/ratingsbyseries.aspx?id=586 #560 of 565 Another nail in the Accent coffin: IIHS by germancarfan1 Dec 19, 2006 (6:46 am) Well, if you needed another reason not to buy the Accent, here it is: Awful IIHS scores. It's pretty much a death trap. Side impact: POOR Rear impact: POOR Front impact: Acceptable
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Replying to: sonatabean (Dec 19, 2006 2:13 pm) http://www.iihs.org/ratings/rating.aspx?id=715 |
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Replying to: sonatabean (Dec 19, 2006 2:13 pm) "Death trap" is hyperbole of course, but worst-in-class on crash tests is not a good thing--especially for a car company that touts the safety of its cars at every opportunity.
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Replying to: backy (Dec 19, 2006 2:29 pm) So to make the Accent/Rio "upscale" for America, Hyundai just installs the extra gear it's easy to leave out in Asian markets. But the cost of the basic "chassis" isn't increased across the board. Honda uses high strength steels in selected areas of the Fit, and Subaru and Volvo do the same. VW does extra chassis spot welding on its Golf/Rabbit/Jetta series to increase body rigidity. I suspect Hyundai on the Accent/Rio, and Chevy/Daweoo on the Aveo, use cheaper steels, with fewer inventory tracking issues, and fewer welds. Thus the basic costs, which impact every market (including Asia and Latin America) aren't driven up. It's not a question of lacking technical expertise to build a tougher body structure, its the need to keep basic costs down. In Hyundai's defense, and Chevy's defense, they DO give you side protection - side protection that will work a lot better in MOST side crashes. I question whether the Fit is actually that much more "survivable" than the Hyundai/Aveo if you up the crash speed or crash vehicle weight. The failure zone is very narrow indeed, and a vehicle that you can survive nicely at 30 might fail at 35 or 37 or 40...but it's not like there's going to be a BIG spread in survivability speeds/weights. The Insurance Institute itself pretty much tells us you are better off in a larger car. Yeah, death trap is hyperbole. BUT Hyundai is creating a serious perception gap by building tough minivans and fragile minicars - I wouldn't want my kid in one, even with all those airbags. On the other hand, it's getting harder and harder to imagine buying any vehicle without side curtain airbags these days, and I am a real car fanatic, it's taken the last 5 years for it to sink in how important these side curtain airbags are. Meanwhile, a friend at work won't even upgrade to a post-1995 car with side impact beams; she's driving around in a beamless Camry, lot of protection there, huh, even less...much less... than the last ranked modern cars.
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