See How Camaro Stacks Up Vs. Mustang and Challenger In Safety

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John Goreham
Contributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com
5/24/2016

Today, IIHS released the results of its comprehensive safety testing of three popular rear-drive sports coupes. The Camaro was the only one in that limited matchup that could score Good on the important small frontal overlap test. The Camaro could have earned a Top Safety Pick rating if it had only scored Good in the roof crush test. This is a ridiculous way to lose a top safety ranking. Cars like the Civic and Mazda3 can handle that test with ease.

 

With no frontal crash prevention system, the Camaro would not have been eligible for the Top Safety Pick Plus rating, but based on feedback from this group, most buyers don't want that system anyway.

 

The Challenger was the black sheep in this family of cars. The dummy had to have its lower leg removed in order to be freed from the car. Something the test group has only ever seen five times in the history of the testing.

 

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well Team Camaro, looks like you guys have some work to do! the Challenger i can understand why it did so badly, is because the platform it is based on is starting to show its age (it rides on a shortened version of the LX Platform, which underpins the 300 and Charger, which was introduced in 2005) and of course, we all know what everyone here thinks of that Two Door Fusion formerly known as Mustang.