GM Vehicle Safety Ratings

Two General Motors vehicles finished at the top of the list of mid-size SUV’s in a tough new crash test from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Vice President and Chief Research Officer David Zuby says the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain score well in all components of the small overlap test structure, restraints and kinematics, and injury. The small overlap test replicates what happens when the front corner of a vehicle collides with another vehicle or an object such as a tree or utility pole. In the test, 25 percent of a vehicle’s front end on the driver’s side strikes a rigid barrier at 40 mph. The Toyota Highlander is the only other of nine SUV’s tested to do well enough to get a “Top Safety Pick+” designation from the Institute. All of the other vehicles showed some issue that could have caused injury or worse.