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Thirteen enter, six leavewith Top Safety Pick awards. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety exhausted a number of occasion heavy (and smashing) a big collection of little cars. Six of persons cars conventional top honors as of the IIHS by scoring a rating of œGood crossways the board. The 2012 Ford Focus, 2012 Honda Civic sedan, 2011 Hyunda Elantra, 2011 Lexus CT200h, 2011 Nissan Juke and 2011 Toyota Prius are all the small-car put to be in the occasion of an accident.

This crop of little cars are too fairly petroleum efficient. All vehicles in the top six present a account so as to stay at smallest amount 40 on foot per gallon on the highway.

The relax of the vehicles tested faired well. Only the older Suzuki SX4 and Dodge Caliber conventional œMediocre ratings in a number of categories. Every car tested, however, conventional manifold œGood ratings. Click history the bound to watch the IIHS converse concerning about the little car collide tests. Also, be certain to create sure out the discontinue working of the ratings by vehicle (pdf file).

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