![]() All of those things, when they work together, they work very well.” ![]() They addressed the issues of keeping the occupant engaged with the frontal air bag keeping the steering wheel in front of the driver deploying the side curtain air bag. “It’s what we envisioned when we were first developing this test,” said Joe Nolan, the institute’s vice president for vehicle research. ![]() Moreover, the redesigned Forester was the first vehicle of 47 tested to date to receive perfect scores in all of those categories. Those are combined into the overall rating. Vehicles are rated separately for their structure, for how well the driver dummy is restrained and for potential injuries to the dummy. The results are rated on a scale of Good, Acceptable, Marginal and Poor. The insurance institute, which is financed by the insurance industry, began conducting the new test, called the small overlap test, in 2012. The new Forester was rated Good, and the 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport received the next-highest rating, Acceptable. ![]() The 2014 Subaru Forester was the only one of 13 compact crossovers and S.U.V.’s to earn the highest rating in a new, more severe front crash test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
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