any crash test yet...???

[vicpai]

Originally Posted by Mad Munchkin

When I ordered last week, my sales guy said he'd just attended the safety seminar 'boot camp' for the Yaris and that it performed better in the crash tests than the Corolla (yes, both the hatchback and the sedan versions of Yaris). Impressive...and I wasn't asking the question so I tend to believe him.

.....car salesmen say, but in this case I would agree ONE HUNDRED PERCENT!!!....I have done a lot of research myself on the Yaris, and even before I saw your post I was going to say that the Yaris is probably safer than vehicles like the Corolla, and then BAM I saw your post! ....literally took the words out of my mouth!!!

The Yaris is supposedly Toyota's first vehicle designed using their new proprietary MICS (Minimal Intrusion Cabin Structure) body, which is designed to Toyota's own internal standards, to withstand an impact with much larger vehicles. They crash tested it with a 2-tonne vehicle, which is the average weight of a mid size SUV!!! .....what that means, is that the design goes waaaayyy beyond meeting the usual IIHS and EURONCAP standardized tests!!

To be honest, I'm amazed as to why Toyota has not done a better PR/Marketing job to advertise this breakthrough safety innovation. I've only seen it in a couple of obscure places (review articles in technical magazines etc.)

MICS is actually Toyota's answer to Honda's new breakthrough ACE (Advanced Compatibility Engineering) body structure, which is not only designed to channel and dissipate far more of the Kinetic energy (energy generated from the crash) than a convential body design, but also has some brilliant structure modifications (lower and upper reinforcements) to make the vehicle CRASH COMPATIBLE with other vehicles of differing heights (such as a Honda Civic crashing with a high riding SUV like a Toyota Sequoia) ......although I dont have any concrete facts, I strongly suspect that Toyota's MICS body is designed along the same lines as Honda's ACE body structure.

However, in sharp contrast to Toyota, Honda advertises their ACE body structure till the cows come home!!