2011 Hyundai Equus Earns Top Safety Pick After IIHS Crash Testing

The new for 2011 Hyundai Equus, a large luxury car, earns top ratings across the board in the Institute's safety evaluations, qualifying as a Top Safety Pick.

The Equus is rated good for front, side, rollover, and rear crash protection, and it has electronic stability control, another requirement for earning the Institute's highest accolade.

In the Institute's roof strength test for rollover protection, the roof of the Equus withstood a force equal to 4.87 times the car's weight. Vehicles with a strength-to-weight ratio of 4 or higher earn a good rating in the Institute's test. By comparison, the current federal standard is 1.5 times weight.



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truckman - 4/15/2011 1:16:47 PM

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Impressive that they would over engineer it.

truckman - 4/18/2011 9:32:17 PM

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In the Institute's roof strength test for rollover protection, the roof of the Equus withstood a force equal to 4.87 times the car's weight. Vehicles with a strength-to-weight ratio of 4 or better rate good, this is close to 5! I praise advancement in technology not ignorant biased toward vehicle brands, and if this was Toyota I would still be praising it,lol If we all thought this way vehicles would be working much harder on engineering as opposed to brainwashing us into being sheep to there product, this would translate into better vehicles.

ceric - 4/16/2011 12:24:56 AM

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Crash test is like you went into a school test knowing all the problems. If you did not get good score, you are just dumb or lazy.

quizz - 4/19/2011 12:44:29 AM

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I'm looking forward to their new direct injection V8 w/ 429 hp and 8 speed auto - it's positioning itself for a comparo with the Lexus LS, this will be good.

The perfect unassuming commuter luxury sedan if you strip the badges and just enjoyed the ride from the inside. Get this car pre-owned 2 years from now and you can drive it for a very long time with great fun (just upgrade the suspension).