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On the first place interval in three years, nil of Toyota Motor Corp.’s vehicles received “top safety pick” ratings from an indemnity assort, as tougher criteria pared the number of selections from 94 matrix year to 27 this year. Ford Motor Co. led all automakers for the later year in a scrap with six 2010-model head shelter picks from the Indemnity Inaugurate for the sake Highway Sanctuary, including four from Volvo, a manufacturer that’s being sold. Subaru and Volkswagen AG finished next with five qualifying vehicles, and Chrysler Club had four.

Offerings from Vague Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Kia and Nissan also made the list. The nonprofit guarantee collect, funded by auto insurers, tightened its top pick criteria instead of the surrogate leisure since it started the award since the 2006 model year.

This year vehicles be compelled have “good” ratings in the institute’s rollover testing. Getting that position requires doubling the roof power required past the U.S. supervision, the group said in a statement. That adds to existing requirements against receiving the “good” label in aspect, side and raise crashes and having electronic stability control. Toyota was the purely automaker total the six biggest in the Merged States that didn’t have on the agenda c trick a winner. Before this year, Toyota, the world’s top-producing automaker, had replenish safety picks in every year but 2007. The Camry nearly qualified, the surety group said. But it received a “marginal” rating in a raise crash prove because the seats and headrests provided less than wanted protection against whiplash. Here is a book of the 2010 top-grade safety picks: Goodly cars — Buick LaCrosse — Ford Taurus — Lincoln MKS — Volvo S80 Mid-sized cars — Audi A3 — Chevrolet Malibu built after October 2009 — Chrysler Sebring four-door interpretation with uncompulsory electronic stability control (ESC) — Dodge Avenger with free ESC — Mercedes C-class — Subaru Legacy — Subaru Outback — Volkswagen Jetta — Volkswagen Passat sedan — Volvo C30 Feel mortified cars — Honda Civic four-door style with facultative ESC; excludes Civic Si — Kia Soul — Nissan Cube — Subaru Impreza excludes Impreza WRX — Volkswagen Golf sedan Mid-sized SUVs — Double-talk Journey — Subaru Tribeca — Volvo XC60 — Volvo XC90 Small SUVs — Honda Element — Jeep Patriot with spontaneous side thorax airbags — Subaru Forester — Volkswagen Tiguan