Minivan Safety Ratings Released

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety published crash test results for small cars and minivans today. The report is available in a PDF format with photos, or a text only version. Topping the list of minivans is the redesigned for 2006 Kia Sedona. While we would prefer to buy used, we have considered the Kia after Car & Driver called it “the best product the company has sent to America, a van that’s dynamically and feature-for-feature competitive with any other.”

The top four tested are:

  1. Kia Sedona (Gold Top Safety Pick)
  2. Honda Odyssey (“Marginal” for whiplash protection)
  3. Toyota Sienna (“Poor” for whiplash protection)
  4. Nissan Quest (“Poor” for whiplash protection)

Complete results for the minivan category can be found here.

This entry was written by Scott, posted on April 17, 2006 at 4:53 pm, filed under Posts. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Aunt Mary
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 5:10 am | Permalink

    We are patiently waiting for cute kids Easter pictures.

  2. Scott
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 5:44 am | Permalink

    I didn’t take any Easter photos. Isabel was wearing this cute white dress and somehow got curdled chocolate milk spilled all over it. I do, however, have some Palm Sunday photos to post soon… :)

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