(Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co. added more structural protection to the 2016 F-150 SuperCab to improve the pickup’s safety rating to “good” from “marginal” in the latest crash tests by an insurer group.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested the F-150 SuperCab as well as two body styles of pickups each from General Motors Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NA. Only the Ford truck received a “good” rating in a 40 miles-per-hour crash designed to mimic a partial head-on collision, according to an IIHS statement Tuesday.
|Top Safety Pick
The improved test score for the F-150 SuperCab helped it earn the group’s Top Safety Pick designation, joining the F-150 SuperCrew version. Full-size pickups are among the top selling and most profitable vehicles in the U.S., and safety ratings are critical to the contractors and ranchers who buy them.
“We commend Ford for taking last year’s test results to heart and upgrading protection for the SuperCab occupants in small overlap crashes,” Raul Arbelaez, vice president of the IIHS Vehicle Research Center, said in a statement. “Ford is leading the way among large pickup manufacturers when it comes to protecting people in a range of crashes.”
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