Following the redesigns of the 2016 Chevrolet Cruze and 2017 GMC Acadia, the NHTSA found both vehicles to be lacking on the safety side of things just a smidge. Cars.com reports both the Acadia and Cruze have received four-star overall safety ratings compared to their predecessors’ five-star overall ratings.
The loss of crashworthiness is unknown at this time, as the NHTSA and General Motors have not commented on the matter. The 2017 Acadia and Cruze both retain five-star ratings for frontal collisions, but dropped to only four stars in the side impact testing and rollover crash scenarios. Previously, the compact Chevrolet and full-size Acadia earned perfect, five-star marks in each crash test.
It’s worth noting the Chevrolet Cruze did not received a Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ from the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety. The 2017 GMC Acadia was awarded a Top Safety Pick, but fell short of the “+”. Though, it is interesting to see both vehicles lag behind after substantial redesigns. The Chinese-built, 2017 Buick Envision, however, has received both a five-star overall rating and a Top Safety Pick+.
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How did the XT5 fare? This would be a better comparison.
Do you guys even know what journalism is? Did you even bother to lookup that the 2017 GMC Acadia is indeed a TSP? You even wrote an article about it in the past.
http://gmauthority.com/blog/2016/12/2017-gmc-acadia-earns-iihs-top-safety-pick-rating-video/
SMDH
This was a test by the NHTSA, not the IIHS. NHTSA scores their own tests differently. Perhaps you should do a better job of reading, especially since you linked the article listing the different agency. NHTSA does 1-5 stars. IIHS does Good, Acceptable, Marginal and Poor. So if you look at it, a four star rating from NHTSA could be comparable to a “good” top safety pick rating. A five star rating could be equitable to the “good” top safety pick+ rating. Looks like GM authority was just reporting what another agency had to say about it.
Did you read the last paragraph? They’ve revised the last paragraph but they did bring IIHS into the topic.
I have not seen the XT5 yet.
Odds are it is a small issue and may have only been on the Acadia.
4-5 rating can be hair splitting some years. I expect it to get. 5 next year or retested to get a 5. It could just have been a small issue during this test. I have seen them repeated and pass on the next run.
It is side impact so it could be intrusion or even point of side curtain impact.
The new Acadia front end it’s so ugly compare the one before , it’s like gm take a old design and do some modifications,,,,:(