By SCI StaffPublished: April 13, 2010Posted in: Bizz, CarsTags: IIHS, safety, scion, xb
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently awarded our favorite box, the Scion xB the honor of “Top Safety Pick”. The second generation xB has earned its Top Safety Pick status due in large part to a stout structure and a number of passive safety features.
The Scion xB is one of seven small cars that earn the Institute’s highest safety designation. To qualify for Top Safety Pick, a vehicle must earn the highest rating of good in the Institute’s front, side, rollover, and rear impact tests and be equipped with electronic stability control.
The xB and Toyota Corolla are the first of Toyota’s models to earn Top Safety Pick since the Institute tightened the criteria to win by adding the new rollover test for 2010.
To earn a good rollover rating, a roof has to support the equivalent of 4 times the vehicle’s weight compared with the current federal standard of 1.5. In the Institute’s test, the xB’s roof withstood a force equal to 6.8 times the car’s weight. The Corolla’s roof supported 5.1 times the car’s weight.
Read more about the Institute’s rollover test here: http://www.iihs.org/ratings/roof/information.html
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