Motor Mouth: Your big pickup isn't as safe as you think - Driving
The 2015 Ford F-150 Super Cab pickup truck is seen in a crash test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. But the Super Cab version, which has a smaller rear door and back seat, did poorly in a small front overlap test, which slams 25 percent of the front of the truck into a barrier at 40 miles per hour. There was more than a hint of scandal to the U. S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) latest pronouncements on July 30. It wasn’t so much that the four-door SuperCrew version of Ford’s F-150 was given a Top Safety Pick rating, while... So, while the SuperCrew passed the IIHS’s extremely tough front small-overlap test with flying colours, the SuperCab had its steering column pushed more than 200 millimetres toward the crash-test dummy’s chest, preventing effective airbag deployment. Source: driving.ca
