For the first time Convertible crash test
It's summertime and not surprisingly, convertible sales. Although nothing beats around with the bass, just as safe are convertibles when compared with a normal car? For the first time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash tests on convertibles. They deserve the highest recognition, the front of a vehicle had good grades in all three Institute crash tests, side and rear have. Among the ten mid-sized models tested, the best performers were the Saab 9-3 and Volvo C70.Both won the top pick for crash protection. That is, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, these two convertibles are actually safer in many ways that many vehicles were tested with fixed roofs. Saab said that offset the lack of the roof through the expansion of the windshield header rail, the A-pillars, door thresholds and wider and larger than a normal saloon. He also had a top pick his institute an extraObligation convertible – a roll bar – as rollovers are deadly situation for convertibles. The Saab 9-3 is a supplementary restraint system designed to anticipate and respond to a possible rollover situation. Produced for General Motors