since we just bought a vehicle that is not "as safe" as kia sedona (yes, pls. insert major sarcasm here), i have been looking for crash testing for te R320 CDI. apparently, NHTSA did not chose to test this vehicle so there are no crash testing results from them..but surely MB test crashes them..so where do i fin that info?
I too have looked for crash testing results for the R-Class. So far I have not been able to find any through US or European agencies that do this kind of thing.
A few reviews you can find on the web have referred to "5 star crash ratings" but they don't cite the source, which makes me think they were either confused or making it up.
thank you so much! i was tired of seeing that ppl are purchasing vehicles based on crash safety tests and one of them being a Kia Sedona...but our cars arent on there! Safety is a huge issue w/ us and a huge factor in purchasing the MB over anythign else. I KNOW MB is safer..but don't have it in b&w, yk??
Cars are selected for testing mostly based on the number of them out in the real world because crash tests are used for risk assesment by the insurance companies to determine their risk exposure to higher cost claims from cars that do poorly in real accidents. Because the R class is sold in such small numbers they don't have a large enough user pool making claims to justify buying several examples for detailed crash testing and generally accept the data provided by MB unless they start getting enough real claims that show the data from MB was inaccurate. An example of this is the recent recall of the Chevy Cobalt which passed all crash tests with side airbags that were optional equipment and then later finding out that most were sold without that option and news that the non-airbag models were all failing to provide enough protection in the side impact test.
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