The top safest cars in 2010

Date: Mar 29 2010
Filed In: Auto Insurance101

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has come out with its latest pick for the safest car for 2010. This study is done every year to determine which car is the best for protecting you and your family members in auto accident.

This year there were some big winners and some surprising losers. To come up with 2010 safest cars, the Insurance Institute employed font, side, rear and for the first-time rollover crash tests. Each year in the US there are about 25,000 to 35,000 people who die in car accidents and a little over 9000 of those are rollover crashes.

Subaru stand out to be the only manufacturer to have top ratings for all four crash tests. In every vehicle class it competes. In all 27 vehicles got top ratings, including multiple models from Volvo and the German automaker Volkswagen.

Who didn’t make the grade? Toyota, the world’s leading auto maker with current sales. Then there were Mazda and Mitsubishi both earn top safety mark in 2009 but did not qualify in 2010.

The testers said if your vehicle didn’t make the safety list, that does not mean it is unsafe. Every vehicle out there meets minimum federal safety standard. This study does not say that the vehicle that are not on this list are unsafe, but what this list tells you is that there are auto manufacturers out there doing better job than others when it comes to safety.

The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety says that each time a new criteria like the rollover test is introduced. It takes time for the auto manufacture to design and catch up. However, most would catch up to that safety standard by 2011.

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