Toyota Making Small Overlap Crash Test Scores A High Priority

Toyota Motor Corp. is racing to make its cars stronger in frontal crash tests after some vehicles, including the RAV4 compact crossover, were stung by poor safety ratings.

Engineers at the Toyota Technical Center here have been reworking designs since last year, said Osamu Nagata, CEO of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. and head of all local manufacturing and r&d.

Toyota plans midcycle vehicle changes so the cars perform better in so-called small overlap frontal crash tests, he said.

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Thegeek - 8/29/2013 10:20:26 PM

+1 Boost

Those idiots (the engineers) deserve to be whacked for designing vehicles that performed poorly in crash tests.