Joel Patterson : I have bought my son who is a young driver a Toyota car. With all this news on Toyota I wonder if the general insurnace company still consider this a safe car or will the teen auto insurance rate increase for my son?

Teen auto insurance and Toyota car safety
Response : Joel, there is a lot of hue and cry about the safety about Toyota’s safety. Let me assure you that Toyota is still considered a safe car by the general auto insurance companies. This news is from the Insurance site as on 3rd March 2010. Although Toyota recently has come under fire for not addressing gas pedal problems in its vehicles that led to accidents and injuries, the company has had some positive safety news: The Scion xB and Toyota Corolla have earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Top Safety Pick.

Here is how the insurance institute for highway safety qualify the car for safety. To qualify for Top Safety Pick, a vehicle must earn the highest rating of good in the Institute’s front, side, rollover, and rear impact tests and be equipped with electronic stability control. The xB and Corolla are the first Toyota models to earn Top Safety Pick since the Institute tightened the criteria to win by adding the new rollover test for 2010.

To earn a good rollover rating, a roof has to support the equivalent of four times the vehicle’s weight compared with the current federal standard of 1.5, IIHS said. In the Institute’s test, the xB’s roof withstood a force equal to 6.8 times the car’s weight. The Corolla’s roof supported 5.1 times the car’s weight.

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The xB and Corolla also earned the 2009 Top Safety Pick award.

“Top Safety Pick recognizes the vehicles that afford buyers the best overall protection in common crashes,” says Institute president Adrian Lund. “With more top performers, there’s no reason to buy a small car with less than stellar crash test ratings.”

There is no need to worry, but you can definetly ask your son to drive carefuly and am sure you are guiding him. With a good driving record your son would definetly get cheap teen auto insurance quote.

Thanks.
Kamlesh.

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