eastcoasta4

Our audis performed worse then even chevy malibus in a test for how passengers would fair in a rear-end collision.

This is one aspect of our car that I was never entirely comfortable with...



"The other 30 received the institute's worst rating, poor, indicating the highest likelihood of neck injury in a rear-impact crash. Among those were the seats in the Audi A4 and S4, the BMW 3 Series, the Dodge Neon and the Jaguar X-type"<ul><li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/14/vehicles.whiplash.ap/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/14/vehicles.whiplash.ap/index.html</a</li></ul>

needforsleep

A friend was telling me about this... thanks for the link.

Stampchez

I don't get it.<ul><li><a href="http://www.iihs.org/vehicle_ratings/head_restraints/head_audi.htm">http://www.iihs.org/vehicle_ratings/head_restraints/head_audi.htm</a</li></ul>

needforsleep

weird.

Sharm

I think this time they crashtested with a dummy - 02/03 rating based on seat geometry only-no crash

needforsleep

ah, that would make sense.

needforsleep

<a href="http://a320.g.akamai.net/7/320/998/20020320/www.progressive.com/video/goodHR.mpg">Good Head Restraint</a>

<a href="http://a320.g.akamai.net/7/320/998/20020722/www.progressive.com/video/badHR.mpg">Bad Head Restraint</a>

eastcoasta4

looks like they only started doing dynamic testing recently.

Spacecadet_CC

volvo's listed good - but in the new S40, the headrests are SO tall. ugly... but safe