Why does Infiniti have bad crash ratings?
http://www.hwysafety.org/vehic...8.htm
Infiniti safety
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Mayhem_J30
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Good website! check out the I30/maxima...MUCH MUCH worse!http://www.hwysafety.org/vehic...2.htm
Mayhem_J30 wrote:Good website! check out the I30/maxima...MUCH MUCH worse!http://www.hwysafety.org/vehic...2.htm
they redesigned it in 97
http://www.hwysafety.org/vehic...4.htm
but still not good. ANd you should compare the vehicles of the same weight. Q45 is at the bottom of the same class :-(
The Q45 is extremely safe.maybe it wasn't just designed w/ those tests in mind, but during my recent spin and double crash I felt perfectly safe and my only concern was for the car as it was spinning.
It is very clear when looking at it that teh crumple zones worked EXACTLY as designed.
Anotehr member here rolled his J multiple time at hiway speeds and walked away, yet anotehr member rollled a G20 badly and walked away.
We can all feel perfectly safe in our Infiniti's asReal world experience in this club of ours, has shown a great safety record!
Fred..:thumbup
It is very clear when looking at it that teh crumple zones worked EXACTLY as designed.
Anotehr member here rolled his J multiple time at hiway speeds and walked away, yet anotehr member rollled a G20 badly and walked away.
We can all feel perfectly safe in our Infiniti's asReal world experience in this club of ours, has shown a great safety record!
Fred..:thumbup
palmerwmd wrote:The Q45 is extremely safe.maybe it wasn't just designed w/ those tests in mind, but during my recent spin and double crash I felt perfectly safe and my only concern was for the car as it was spinning.
Fred..:thumbup
You were in the 1st gen, right? Do you think 97-2000 got better or worse? It's a different platform.
I do not remember where I saw it (USA Today??), but I recall a study that ranked the 97+Q's as a car with one of the lowest roll over propensities, based on its center of gravity, weight and size. Also, if I remember correctly the other car in that class was the Rolls. I had hoped that the earlier car would do just as well. I have also seen the poor crash ratings of the earlier Maximas.
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Mayhem_J30
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I tend to believe the reports more than someone's personal experience. So I wouldn't say the Q45 is "etremely" safe because obviously it could have been better in the test results. But the Q45 did have decent test results and luckily Fred did get a chance to walk away. There were no results for the J30 so who's to say there but after seing the J30 after several rolls there is a comfort level that should be associated with it...with results or not.The flipped G20...ugghh. I would like to get Stoney's opinion on it, but after looking at the pics I think the only reason he walked away was pure luck. No car is designed to flip and hit a tree like that, like I said..luck. If you go out and start looking at newer car stats obviously they have dramatically improved. I am a Infiniti/Nissan brand loyalist, but I'm not gonna blind myself and deny the results posted by the NHTSA.palmerwmd wrote:The Q45 is extremely safe.maybe it wasn't just designed w/ those tests in mind, but during my recent spin and double crash I felt perfectly safe and my only concern was for the car as it was spinning.
It is very clear when looking at it that teh crumple zones worked EXACTLY as designed.
Anotehr member here rolled his J multiple time at hiway speeds and walked away, yet anotehr member rollled a G20 badly and walked away.
We can all feel perfectly safe in our Infiniti's asReal world experience in this club of ours, has shown a great safety record!
Fred..:thumbup
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greg_atlanta
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The most important factor is how big the driver or passenger is related to the car.
A small person in a medium sized car will fare better than a large person in a small car.
I hit my head pretty hard on the room beam when I was t-boned in my '90 Camry and now I appreciate the extra side-to-side headroom in my Q45!!!
Japanese cars would fare better if they used smaller dummies!
A small person in a medium sized car will fare better than a large person in a small car.
I hit my head pretty hard on the room beam when I was t-boned in my '90 Camry and now I appreciate the extra side-to-side headroom in my Q45!!!
Japanese cars would fare better if they used smaller dummies!
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The J30 has one of the lowest fatality/accident rates of ANY car ever.
I'll take my chances, knowing I have 4200 pounds of Japanese protection. Those who would select a Taurus over a Q based solely upon the NTHSA ratings might be surprised to find out how they fare in an offset collision with a first-gen Q.
I'll take my chances, knowing I have 4200 pounds of Japanese protection. Those who would select a Taurus over a Q based solely upon the NTHSA ratings might be surprised to find out how they fare in an offset collision with a first-gen Q.
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