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It's almost certainly too late to redesign the 2015 based on these results. 2016 gives me hope.
Although if you believe our local Mazda sales guy, Mazda is considering discontinuing the 5.
I'm new to this website. Actually came across it while trying to figure out what to do about these ratings that I saw on CBS this morning the other day. I'm pretty freaked out, but it would really stretch our budget to trade. I don't know a TON about car seats, but have a 10 month old rear facing in a diono radian and a 3.5yr old 45lb boy front facing in an evenflo symphony. Would the 3yr old be better off in a different seat as he is on the drivers side? Can anyone recommend one? To trade and add $100+ a month to our payment would be tough...but if something happened that could have turned out differently if I had traded, it would be horrible.
I'm new to this website. Actually came across it while trying to figure out what to do about these ratings that I saw on CBS this morning the other day. I'm pretty freaked out, but it would really stretch our budget to trade. I don't know a TON about car seats, but have a 10 month old rear facing in a diono radian and a 3.5yr old 45lb boy front facing in an evenflo symphony. Would the 3yr old be better off in a different seat as he is on the drivers side? Can anyone recommend one? To trade and add $100+ a month to our payment would be tough...but if something happened that could have turned out differently if I had traded, it would be horrible.
Well, I spoke with my uncle who works for a Mazda dealer. ( He didn't sell me mine because I bought a pre-owned) He is an intelligent, safety conscious individual himself, and didn't seem nearly as concerned about this as I expected. I thought for sure he would suggest I get into something else, but he didn't think that a lab engineered test should dictate what vehicles we choose to drive. The government has safety standards that ALL vehicle manufacturers have to meet in order for them to be on the road and that Mazda would be shooting themselves in the foot to put out an unsafe vehicle. So for now, I'm going to keep mine. I did some research, and I haven't found any vehicles that offer the 6 passenger seating, comfort and 30mpgs that I get from my 2012 for anywhere near the bargain price I paid for it. The only change I plan to make is to upgrade my 3 year old to a Britax pinnacle 90 when I can put together the $300. I feel confident about the Diono Radian my 10 month old is RF in.
While road speeds may be much higher in general, the crash test speeds are chosen to be at or above those involved in the vast majority of crashes of that type.
I generally wouldn't consider a vehicle with Poor, Marginal, 2-star or 1-star results in a crash test if I was buying a new one. I wouldn't necessarily rush to trade one because of that, though. I imagine my Highlander wouldn't likely receive an Acceptable or better score in the IIHS small overlap test if it was ever tested, given Toyota's track record for a number of its vehicle designs.
But it said only 1 car did well, and a car hardly anyone has at that, the cooper. I live in a high COL area and still only rarely see these, and we have a dealership that sells them 5 minutes away!. I see more BMWs, Infiniti, Jaguar and the like. My point being if NO cars are doing well, I'm not going to worry that much about it. Or did I misunderstand something?
A whole bunch of cars are failing the small overlap test, true. There are some that are doing well, just not in that particular round of testing. The Mazda 5 is the only car that's been tested that got less than a an acceptable rating on the side impact test, which was much more upsetting to me personally.
The side impact would bug me more, too, though I watched it and it didn't honestly seem all that different than others I've watched. I think I just take issue with this particular test that so many are doing bad on. Some crashes aren't yet going to have good outcomes, I don't think that means it's a bad car. And I actually hit a truck in what I think would count as this type of accident. I was going 45mph, truck was going much slower than that. I hit his rear wheel with the front driver side corner of my car. Must be different if you hit a big heavy immobile object, b/c my crash wasn't bad. I needed a new bumper, grill, and headlight and that was it.
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