The 2014 Chevrolet Spark is a Top Safety Choice in its first year of suitability, and is the one automobile in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety mini car segment to get the rating in 2014 model year testing.
Good Scores In IIHS
Spark attained maximum probable good scores in the IIHS’s reasonable overlap front, roof strength, side and head restraints tests, and recorded a “satisfactory” in IIHS’s different minor overlap test, intended to reproduce what take place when the front corner of a vehicle strikes other vehicle or an object similar to tree or a utility pole.
Gay Kent Views
Gay Kent, General director Motors general director of Vehicle Safety and Crashworthiness says “Spark’s inspiring presentation in IIHS’s most stringent test however validates the intensive struggles of our global protection team to provide great protection in a minor package”. “Spark’s protection arrangement makes wide utilization of high power and particularly high strength steel and its healthy traveler safety package contain 10 usual air bags.”
Specs
Mini cars offer unique challenge while intend for crashworthiness. Spark’s fairly small wheelbase of 93.5 inches requisite the Spark team to make stronger front-end structure of the car to better take in and distribute impact energy around occupant. A cradle expansion presents extra support in frontal collision.
Top protection Pick
The Top protection Pick has been honor since 2006, and the standard for attain the pick have increase significantly from the time when it was launch. Showing that little cars are able to be protected as well, the Spark is filled by 10 airbags and appears usual with the antilock brakes and StabiliTrak stability control system. The Spark is obtainable in bold color and characteristic an available 7-inch color touch-screen My Link Radio that remains drivers and passengers associated and entertain despite the fact that scooting around the town.
Safety and Other Features
Lightweight, high power steels represent above 42 percent of its upper body and 62 percent of Spark’s in body. The car’s rigid door ray and H-shaped organization below the seating region are intended to improve safety in side impact, and its high power cross associates are intended to help control crush gap in impacts. B-pillar and Spark’s roof bow as well use high power steels to assist save the occupant space in a rollover crash. Similarly, the high power rear bar is intended to help safe the fuel tank in side and rear impact.
Front knee air bags of Spark’s driver and passenger are intended to decrease the danger of lesser extremity damage in front collision. Extra safety is given by dual stage front air bags, side curtain air bags and seat-mounted side air bags that expand above the front and rear seating row. Further protection features contain a rollover sensing system; in all four seating positions there are three-point protection belts, safety belt pretensioners in the front passenger and driver seats.
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