pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/euro/" rel="tag"Euro/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/safety/" rel="tag"Safety/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-iq-euro-ncap-tests/1370404/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/iq_580.jpg" //abr / div align="center"strongsmallemClick above for high-res gallery of the Toyota iQ's NCAP test/em/small/strongbr //div br /We still wouldn't want to crack the tiny Toyota iQ into anything, but the little rollerskate has earned itself 5 stars in Euro NCAP safety testing. It's not a perfect correlation to hitting real objects, but the performance will undoubtedly help make a sales case. Results for the iQ are nearly as good as its larger sibling, the Avensis. The iQ will bust up your neck with whiplash, and the pole test also showed marginal chest protection, deflecting the ribs quite a bit. br /br /The iQ's small size also leads to a C- for rear seat protection, and there's upgrades and revisions for the ISOFIX anchors and Britax seats to keep bambinos and bambinas secure. Despite any caveats, however, the iQ's rating trumps the four stars for Ford's new Ka, which will undoubtedly be strategically mentioned. We'd still drive anything in this segment with a modicum of care and heightened awareness. It's much safer, no matter what you drive, to avoid incidents all together. br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-iq-euro-ncap-tests/"Toyota iQ Euro NCAP tests/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-iq-euro-ncap-tests/1370404/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/toyota-iq_front_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-iq-euro-ncap-tests/1370407/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/toyota-iq_pole_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-iq-euro-ncap-tests/1370405/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/toyota-iq_crs_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-iq-euro-ncap-tests/1370406/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/toyota-iq_driver_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/toyota-iq-euro-ncap-tests/1370408/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/toyota-iq_whiplash_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.euroncap.com/results/toyota/IQ/347.aspx"EuroNCAP/a via a href="http://www.greenmotor.co.uk/2009/02/toyota-iq-scores-five-out-of-five.html"GreenMotor/a]br /p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/19/tiny-toyota-iq-registers-5-star-ncap-performance/"Tiny Toyota iQ registers 5 Star NCAP performance/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.euroncap.com/results/toyota/IQ/347.aspxRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/19/tiny-toyota-iq-registers-5-star-ncap-performance/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1464945/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/19/tiny-toyota-iq-registers-5-star-ncap-performance/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ntVgHs1ja8BQnxFXB81qcUNdsT8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ntVgHs1ja8BQnxFXB81qcUNdsT8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=5aQ9PKA9"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=5aQ9PKA9" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=9oPELcVy"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=9oPELcVy" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/AZpN7GtsKhw" height="1" width="1"/

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