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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a list of 74 vehicles for the 2012 model year that it plans on crash testing. The vehicles include 42 passengers cars, 22 SUVs, eight trucks and two vans. NHTSA claims the list represents about 81 percent of the 2012 model year vehicles that will be on sold in the U.S., and further claims it will be performing rollover tests on 92 percent of the 2012 fleet.
You may remember that NHTSA released the first round of results from its new, tougher crash tests in October 2010, and that first batch of vehicles didn’t fare too well. It’s been almost one year exactly, which has given automakers ample time to tweak their vehicles in the hopes of achieving that coveted overall score of five stars.
Of the 74 vehicles being tested this year, we’re particularly interested in a few like the Ford Transit Connect (we expect a fun crash video from that one) and a number of EVs including the 2012 Coda Sedan we just took for a Quick Spin, the Ford Focus BEV, little Mitsubishi i and Toyota Prius V. Other notable crash candidates are the Toyota Camry, which as a 2011 model could only manage a best overall score of four stars after some mid-model year tweaks raised it from three stars, and the 2012 Passat, which needs five stars to become the volume seller that Volkswagen hopes it will be after a complete redesign and significantly lower price.
Check out the full list for yourself after the jump.Continue reading Step Right Up: NHTSA announces list of 2012 models to be tested
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