If you’re shopping for a safe family vehicle, you now have five more to consider. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has named five minivans Top Safety Picks. The 2012 Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Grand Caravan, Honda Odyssey, Toyota Sienna and Volkswagen Routan all earned the award for their top scores of “good” in front, side, rear and rollover crash protection, as well as having electronic stability control (ESC) standard. ESC is required by the government on all 2012 ...
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IIHS Names Five Minivans Top Safety Picks
If you’re shopping for a safe family vehicle, you now have five more to consider. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has named five minivans Top Safety Picks. The 2012 Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Grand Caravan, Honda Odyssey, Toyota Sienna and Volkswagen Routan all earned the award for their top scores of “good” in front, side, rear and rollover crash protection, as well as having electronic stability control (ESC) standard. ESC is required by the government on all 2012 ...
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Volkswagen Routan: Driver Distraction and Chatty Navs
Last week, the New England Motor Press Association and MIT sponsored an excellent roundtable on in-car connectivity. One of the attendees asked the panelists why car companies couldn’t build a passenger-sensing system into their infotainment systems to allow for certain functions, like entering a destination into the navigation system or pairing a phone while the car was moving. The panelists all agreed that drivers would find a way around passenger sensors and perform the functions themselves, increasing driver distraction ...
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