Look at the camera below the car at the 3 minute mark.

It appears the front diff and transmission plus the oil pan made it? Looks like the entire sub-frame broke loose from the bolts and slided underneath. Also look at he driver's side window raising a bit in an angle to protect the driver from debris. Very impressive to watch.

 

Very cool, knowing that we drive a very safe car.

 

Hi folks-

I just saw on safercar.gov that the 2-star frontal crash rating for the 2012 TL rises to 4 stars for cars built after April 18th. I was bummed to realize that my brand-new 2012 TL was built before April, according to the VIN, and I have the lower rating on my car's crash tests. Does anyone know what changed to improve the test score?

--Jeff

 

April 18th 2012?? Do you have a link?

 

Click on any of the four links here- you can see it's broken up by 2012 "early release" and 2012 "later release" as well as FWD and SH-AWD. On the individual vehicle pages you can see the April 18th & VIN cutoff:

http://www.safercar.gov/Vehicle+Shop...l=TL&year=2012