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2011 Hyundai Sonata earns Top Safety Pick award | Chicago Hyundai



2011 Hyundai Sonata earns Top Safety Pick award

The redesigned 2011 Hyundai Sonata earns the Institute's Top Safety Pick award. Come to a Hyundai Dealer in Chicago to see it for yourself. Whether you are driving from Oak Park or making the trip from Glenview, Rogers will make you feel at home.

To qualify for a Top Safety Pick, a vehicle must earn a Good rating in front, side, rear and rollover crash tests. It must also be equipped with electronic stability control. Criteria to win are tough because the award is intended to drive continued safety improvements such as top crash test ratings and the rapid addition of electronic stability control, which is standard on the Sonata.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety named the 2011 Hyundai Sonata as the latest vehicle to earn its highest award of Top Safety Pick.

Earning the award became tougher when IIHS added a new roof-strength test that is twice as stringent as the federal requirement. As a result, many of the vehicles that had previously qualified as Top Picks fell off the list in 2010.

This is the first time the Chicago Hyundai Sonata has earned the Institute's safety award. The previous generation Sonata was rated good for front and rear impact protection, acceptable in the side impact test, and marginal for rollover protection.

"With the addition of the new rollover evaluation, Institute test results now cover all 4 of the most common kinds of crashes," says Institute president Adrian Lund. "Vehicles that win Top Safety Pick are designs that go far beyond minimum federal safety standards."