Normalement oui!

Mais en regardant un peu plus finement, "pas d'analyse officielle", la durée de vie des consommables est en général supérieure sur les modèles produits au Japon avec des équipementiers japonais (pas valable du coup pour les airbags). Après c'était évidemment plus vrai avant. C'est aussi le point de 2 mécanos Honda avec qui j'ai parlé pour la durée de vie d'amortisseurs, de silent blocs...

Joyeux Quinquagénaire 

Quelle discrétion sur l'hybridation 

oui, ils sont plus fiers de leur tondeuse apparemment 

Normal, la tondeuse elle se vend, elle.

Honda 2eme!

VOLKSWAGEN
Toyota, Honda models top Insurance Institute's safest-car list; VW is 3rd


Lund: "As vehicles continue to improve, we think it's important to recognize that progress and encourage further advances by making our ratings more stringent."
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG had the most models rated among the safest U.S. vehicles in a year-end review by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Toyota led the industry with nine models on the institute’s list released today, followed by Honda with eight and VW with seven. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles had the only U.S.-made car on the list, the Chrysler 200 midsize sedan.

A total of 48 car and SUVs got the institute’s safest car designation of “top safety pick plus.” Toyota’s vehicles on the list ranged from the $16,000 Scion iA to the Lexus RC, a large luxury car which retails for more than $40,000. Honda models included the Accord sedan and Acura RDX luxury SUV. Among Volkswagen vehicles were the Jetta, Passat and Audi A3.

Recommendations from the safety group, which is funded by the insurance industry, are followed by car shoppers and automakers alike. They also provide a glimpse of the future as the criteria include elements that U.S. safety regulators announced this week they want to add to their ratings.

Tough tests

To get the institute’s highest designation, vehicles have to perform well in a tough offset frontal crash test and also offer automatic braking technology. Three years ago, the group shifted to the test, in which a small part of a vehicle’s front end strikes a fixed barrier at 40 miles per hour, in an effort to reduce fatalities and injuries in crashes like those involving a off-road tree or utility pole. Insurance industry data showed this was a particularly deadly type of crash.

“As vehicles continue to improve, we think it’s important to recognize that progress and encourage further advances by making our ratings more stringent,” said Adrian Lund, CEO of the insurance institute.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Tuesday it will introduce a similar frontal offset crash test in its New Car Assessment Program. The auto-safety regulator is also introducing a new crash-test dummy with more sensitive injury sensors and would adjust its star ratings to include credit for crash-avoidance technologies.

Automatic braking

In the insurance-industry ratings, some models that got the IIHS top safety designation last year fell off the list with 2016 models, because the institute shifted its minimum criteria from “acceptable,” its second-highest rating, to “good,” its highest. The models also had to offer automatic braking, a crash-avoidance technology that will slow or stop a vehicle if it senses an impending collision, even without the driver taking actions.

VW touted the appearance of the 2016 Passat sedan on the IIHS list, after the company redesigned the car with a fully reinforced structure. Driver-assistance features like automatic braking, forward-collision alerts and a lane-departure warning are standard, the company said in a statement today.

The top-pick designation “demonstrates Volkswagen’s longstanding commitment to vehicle safety and the development of innovative technologies,” Mark McNabb, COO of Volkswagen of America Inc., said in the statement. The car’s technology is “unique to the segment and not typically seen outside the luxury market,” McNabb said.



Toyota, Honda et VW les véhicules les mieux notés par les assurances.