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06-09-2010, 11:10 AM
Filed under: Car Buying (http://www.autoblog.com/category/carbuying/), Safety (http://www.autoblog.com/category/safety/), Audi (http://www.autoblog.com/category/audi/), Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/category/ford/), Hyundai (http://www.autoblog.com/category/hyundai/), Lincoln (http://www.autoblog.com/category/lincoln/), Mercury (http://www.autoblog.com/category/mercury/), Volkswagen (http://www.autoblog.com/category/volkswagen/)

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2010 Insurance Institute For Highway Safety rollover tests - click above for high-res images

Perish the thought, haters! The above Lincoln MKT (http://autoblog.com/model/mkt) is getting its roof caved in not on aesthetic grounds, but rather to test its ability to survive a rollover accident. If you haven't guessed by now, the MKT did so well in the roof-crush test that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) (http://autoblog.com/tag/iihs) handed parent company Ford (http://autoblog.com/make/ford) a much coveted Top Safety Pick (http://autoblog.com/tag/top+safety+pick) award. Actually, the IIHS handed FoMoCo a hefty total of five rollover-related Top Safety Pick awards. However we should note that one of the Ford products earning top marks is in fact the soon to be extinct Mercury Millan (http://autoblog.com/tag/mercury), so really Ford only nabbed four - but who's counting? Other good-to-rollover-in Ford products include the Flex (http://autoblog.com/model/flex), Fusion (http://autoblog.com/model/fusion) and Lincoln MKZ (http://autoblog.com/model/mkz).

Speaking of thick-sculled corporate cousins, Audi (http://autoblog.com/make/audi) and Volkswagen (http://autoblog.com/make/volkswagen) were handed a couple of Top Safety Picks, too. The 2010 Audi A4 (http://autoblog.com/model/a4) and Q5 (http://autoblog.com/model/q5) as well as the Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/vw+jetta+sportwagen/) all earned top marks from the IIHS. As far as the Jetta goes, that's just one more reason to choose wagon over sedan. Finally, the new 2010 Hyundai Tucson (http://www.autoblog.com/model/tucson) gets the coveted TSP, and having recently driven the overly-stiff compact CUV, we're not at all surprised that its roof holds up to crushing. To get the dirt on the IIHS's methodology/read the press release, make the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/09/iihs-awards-top-safety-picks-to-audi-ford-hyundai-and-vw-on-st/#continued).


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[Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (http://www.iihs.org/)]Continue reading IIHS awards Top Safety Picks to Audi, Ford, Hyundai and VW on strength of roofs (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/09/iihs-awards-top-safety-picks-to-audi-ford-hyundai-and-vw-on-st/)

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