This time it’s the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarding the 2013 Dodge Dart with its highest safety rating of 5 stars. The car get that rating because of its good performance in overall frontal and combined side-impact crash tests. Before this Dart had won the 2012 Top Safety Pick award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
It is hardly surprising when you look at the Dart’s list of standard safety equipment. The car is made of auto industry’s highest content-ratios of high-strength steel, so it is very rigid and tough, and also comes with 10 airbag even i the basic model. A fully loaded Dart has more than 60 different safety features.
Every Dodge Dart comes equipped with Dual-stage, adaptive, venting air bags for the driver and front-seat passenger, Front-seat-mounted pelvic and thorax air bags for driver and passenger, Two rear-seat-mounted torso air bags, Knee air bags for driver and front-seat passenger, Two curtain air bags designed to protect front and rear passengers on both sides of the car.
Some of the high-end electronic systems available for the car include Electronic stability control (ESC), Electronic roll mitigation, Traction control, Standard four-wheel, four-channel anti-lock disc brakes, Electronic brake-force distribution, Blind-spot monitoring, Rear cross-path detection.
