Nissan Pulls Popular Tsuru From Mexican Market After This Shocking Crash Video

Nissan has been forced to withdraw a new car from sale after it earned a shocking zero-star safety rating. The Nissan Tsuru is built for the Mexican market, and is a popular taxi in the Central American country. But in test conditions designed to show the variations in vehicle safety between different countries, the Tsuru proved to be well below the standards of its US equivalent.

The test was conducted by the Global New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), and the Tsuru was assessed in a 50 per cent overlap collision with the US market Nissan Versa, which is similar to the UK's Nissan Pulsar. Both cars were travelling at 40mph, but the difference in damage between the two was stark.


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atc98092 - 11/1/2016 3:27:46 PM

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Um, Mexico is still considered North America, not Central. The writer needs a geography lesson.

And the link doesn't work, so I don't know what writer (or site) to blame.

atc98092 - 11/1/2016 3:28:30 PM

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Um, Mexico is still considered North America, not Central. The writer needs a geography lesson.

And the link doesn't work, so I don't know what writer (or site) to blame.

MDarringer - 11/1/2016 6:47:22 PM

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Why would be expect better crash safety from a vehicle designed during the Bush Sr. era? Yes I understand that iut was cheap to build and Mexican law allowed it, but the corporate ethics of letting people die in Mexico in this death trap is the bigger question. As bad as Nissan was for allowing this, VW was far worse with the Beetle.

tecnopolis - 11/2/2016 9:17:30 AM

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That'll buff right out.