Insurance Institute for Highway Safety names Chevy Traverse a “Top Safety Pick” for 2011

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) names Chevy Traverse a “Top Safety Pick” for 2011.

It’s an important third-party recognition that can have a big impact on the shopping process, and it’s only given to vehicles with both electronic stability control and the highest possible scores in IIHS evaluations of front, side, rear and rollover impact protection. And passing was tougher than ever this year, since the IIHS instituted new, more rigorous guidelines for roof-strength as part of its 2011 rollover testing.

The Traverse comes with the General Motors 360-degree safety system which includes:

A body structure that showcases not only the use of high-strength steel, but also dual-phase steel, which is strengthened in the paint oven to deliver easier formability, less weight, more strength and better crash-energy absorption than most traditional high-strength steel.
A comprehensive system of six standard air bags—two dual-stage frontal air bags, two seat-mounted pelvic-thorax side-impact airbags and two head-curtain side-impact air bags that protect all three rows—mated to GM’s rollover-sensing technology. This system can detect an imminent rollover situation and then tailor air-bag deployment and safety-belt tension for optimum protection.

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