Small cars do poorly in bumper tests

[rningonfumes]

Your title has a typo? "calls" should be "car's?" or "car?"

IIHS says small call bumpers are expensive to fix

[Thirty-Nine]

Originally Posted by rningonfumes

Your title has a typo? "calls" should be "car's?" or "car?"

DOH! Thanks ... and fixed.

Originally Posted by MUSKOKA800

Judging by the photo of the damaged Fit I suspect the test ram (or vehicle) had a bumper higher than that of the Fit. Not sure you could blame the bumper failing to protect against a much taller vehicle, eg. full size SUV, Pick-up, etc.

Here's a link to the video of how they performed the test:

http://www.iihs.org/video.aspx/releases/pr061109