Test Drive # 88-2015 Lincoln MKC
2015 Lincoln MKC Misses Top Crash Test From Fed.
The federal government has crash tested a 2015 Lincoln MKC and an overall assessment to four stars, the model ends short of the upper echelon for the compact crossover security.
While the new 2015 MKC is closely related to the Ford Escape, its safety ratings won t bear directly on the escape for several reasons addition to many more features and luxury inside, MKC has everything to completely different sheetmetal and a rear hatch clamshell-design with cutting lines, more in the corners of the vehicle, for a reporting back own general style MKC also weighs more than drain federal authorities note that the MKC AWD tested tips the scales at 4013 pounds compared to 3782 pounds for the previous Ford escape SE AWD that was tested.
New Car Assessment Program tests NCAP side impact federal MKC found an excellent five star occupant protection for the driver of male size and female size rear occupants Although results include a note of accompanying the door unlocked and left rear passenger side impact test the open something that would increase the likelihood of occupant ejection.
The relatively new federal side pole test, which simulates a side impact with a narrow object, fixed as a utility pole or tree, also returned excellent five stars for MKC.
impact tests conducted by the federal government Frontal don t paint MKC in such a high-level position, however; like the Escape, it carries four stars in this category.
Not a complete picture but still some concern in the Escape results.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS, the other main security authority that US crash tests vehicles HASN t yet tested MKC although the 2014 Ford Escape has earned a worrying poor little test score before overlap this agency.
The Mazda CX-5 and Subaru Forester are two models that support better overall five star rating from the federal government, as well as Top Safety Pick status from IIHS.
Active-security are certainly a step in the MKC, whether in relation to the escape or most other compact crossovers upscale brand with a Technology Package, you can add an adaptive cruise control, active park, a track keeping system and detecting forward to all of MKC features, and high reserve MKC models you get an information system BLIS Blind Spot with cross-TRAFFIC ASSIST real asset when saving on a driveway or a parking spot in a crowded area.
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