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Not so, said Alejandro Furas, technical director for the Global NCAP crash test programs.
Indeed, a Chery sedan failed badly in a recent independent crash test in Russia.
"We perform the frontal crash test exactly in the same way as the Euro NCAP, " he said.
"The secret of a car's body being able to withstand the crash test are the weld spots, " he said.
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They sold 6, 100 in the first 11 months, and one car caught fire three weeks after a government crash test.
Then on Nov. 11 shares plunged again--but later recovered--on news that a Chevrolet Volt caught fire after a government crash test.
Moreover, GM took steps to better protect the Volt battery pack following a fire that flared after a crash test in 2011.
It received one star after its door unhinged and the passenger cabin roof bent into an inverted V shape during its crash test.
No amount of advertising, or lack thereof, will convince buyers this car is right for them, and no crash test will scare them off.
Rumours in F1 suggest the crash test failure could delay the debut of the car further until the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in September.
Some models sold in Brazil, like the Chinese-made JAC J3, scored only one star in a recent crash test despite having air bags and antilock brakes.
When the transport department put one of them through a crash test earlier this year, test dummies were severely injured at impact speeds as low as 35 miles an hour.
This from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, who does the crash test you always see on TV, they gave a couple of small pickups their worst crash rating of poor.
It also improved the structure so that the van can get top marks in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's new frontal crash test, which hits a fixed barrier at an angle.
Mechanically, the most notable upgrade is the Civic's reinforced front-chassis section, designed to cope with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's new 40-miles-per-hour narrow-offset front crash test (which is quite a wallop, by the way).
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Kim is confident the vehicle will be ready to ship to customers by 2014, citing the lack of crash test regulations for motorcycles as well the relatively small number of parts that go into the C-1.
On Thursday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit financed by the insurance industry, released its 2012 list of vehicles with the best crash test ratings, and some in nearly every size category evaluated earned accolades.
While some creeped-out viewers complained that he looked like a crash-test dummy, others were reassured.
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Its main crash-test building yanks a car across the floor while high-speed cameras record every crumple.
For years automobile manufacturers have strapped crash-test dummies into cars and sent them hurtling into walls.
But because there are no independent crash-test centers in Brazil, companies will not face the same scrutiny as elsewhere.
Martin Eberhard gleefully showed the safety crash-test videos of the Tesla electric roadster.
Automakers say they will continue using rubber-and-steel crash-test dummies indefinitely, but the virtual dummy offers a more flexible and possibly cheaper option.
Brazilian regulators don't have their own crash-test facility to verify automakers' claims about vehicle performance, nor are there independent labs in the country.
Crash-test footage shows the front of the car folding up like an accordion, giving it a 2.0 point rating, the second lowest of the 28 cars NCAP has examined.
Some broker-dealers ask for data at a specific point in time, such as the Flash Crash so they can test their algorithms against it.
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Birmingham Crown Court heard Dhesi failed a roadside breath test after the crash and was found to have 46 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - above the legal limit of 35 micrograms.
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