2012 Toyota Vitz/Yaris Vs. 2012 Toyota Crown Offset Frontal Impact

A new crash test of the 2012 Toyota Yaris bound for North America (Already on sale in Asia)

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• car
• compact
• hatchback
• 2012
• toyota
• yaris
• vitz
• crown
• sedan
• luxury
• crash
• test
• frontal
• offset
• impact
• safe
• dual
• airbags
• iihs
• euroncap

[andreasausmuc]

@CarPro1993

Do u happen to know if the test configuration was the same as in the IIHS test Yaris vs. Camry (and Smart vs. C-class, Jazz vs. Accord)?

[CarPro1993]

@andreasausmuc

Closing speed of 80 Mp/h (40 Mp/h each) at a 40% overlap. So yes, it is the same.

[andreasausmuc]

@CarPro1993

So Toyota has improved the Yaris´ safety cage ...

[CarPro1993]

@andreasausmuc

Quite a bit.

[bluedrangon69]

looks like the 2012 yaris is safer than the old one

[comicmaterial887]

Kaizen

[cardude1992]

looks much more safer now. solid. nice going toyota. and the crown did great aswell.

[fahrirazi]

Certainly yaris a lot improved than old one!

[scrubs291292]

@dorkinski I don't see how you saw that as a passenger side, but remember that they drive on the left in Japan, where this test was held. So they have had to change, if not the whole engine side, the side of the steering column, pedals, and so on for it to fit to Japan's roads.

[Honeygmod]

not much happened to the 2012 yaris but very much happened to the crown!

[ChevRcr454]

it handeled it better then the old yaris did, but i'm a bit concerned about it flying into another lane of traffic :|

just like the smart 42 which can also take A hit but how can it handel a second hit?

[TheSoilemezidis]

yaris is very safe

[sonychild]

@andreasausmuc I saw that test, looks bad. This is the new gen. Yaris. They must have changed the design.

[BoberMcBoberson]

Wow the new Yaris is a lot more rugged. Still would rather be in the bigger car though.

[rejzor]

@CarPro1993 Actually speed doesn't sum up in a linear fashion. 2 cars, both at 40MPH is still like 1 car at 40MPH hitting a wall. It has something to do with forces canceling eachother out.