Crash Test 2008 - Discontinued Saturn Vue / 2008 - 20** Chevrolet Captiva IIHS Side Impact

Discontinued
2008 models mfg. after Dec. 2007
2008 Top Safety Pick 2008 Saturn VUE: good performance in front, side, and rear tests and standard electronic stability control
SIDE IMPACT TEST WITH STANDARD FRONT AND REAR HEAD CURTAIN AIRBAGS AND STANDARD FRONT SEAT-MOUNTED TORSO AIRBAGS

OVERALL EVALUATION: Good
Injury measures Head protection Structure/safety cage
Head/neck Torso Pelvis/leg
Driver Good Good Good Good Acceptable
Rear passenger Good Good Good Good

Important: Side impact crash test ratings can be compared across vehicle type and weight categories.
Test details:

The Saturn VUE was redesigned and enlarged for the 2008 model year. Its size and weight have increased sufficiently to reclassify it as a midsize SUV (2002-07 models were classified as small SUVs).

Two tests of the VUE were conducted. In the first test, the side curtain airbag did not deploy properly, and the rear passenger dummy's head was hit by the window sill of the rear door. This impact did not produce high head injury measures, but the head protection was inadequate. In response, General Motors redesigned the side curtain airbags to ensure more rapid inflation and greater extension of the airbag next to the rear dummy's head. In the second test, the fix was successful, and the head protection rating improved to Good.

The two vehicles are therefore rated separately, except that the structural ratings for both vehicles are based on both tests.
Injury measures:

Driver — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.

Rear passenger — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.
Head protection:

Driver — The dummy's head was protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding barrier, by a side curtain airbag that deployed from the roof.

Rear passenger — The dummy's head was protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding barrier, by a side curtain airbag that deployed from the roof.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Crash
• Test
• 2008
• Discontinued
• Saturn
• Vue
• IIHS
• Side
• Impact

[Herbert78ig]

In Europe this is the Opel Antara. It is Sold very bad and its Test results are disappointing. It is Not the quality, that Opel Cars usually have. The Assembling quality does Not expect the Standard of the German Assembling plants in Rüsselsheim, Bochum, Eisenach or Kaiserslautern. That is really a pitty because the looking of the Car is Nice.

[Vinivinilombardi]

here in Brazil, Chevrolet Captiva.

[TapTapTido]

this car applys to the Holden Captiva

[alexkvaskov]

wow, very good sabs