Toyota Motor Corp.'s Camry, the best-selling midsize car in the U.S., and the Prius V hybrid earned the lowest ratings in a new crash test simulating a severe front-end collision, an insurance group found.
The two Toyotas received the only "poor" scores on an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety test intended to evaluate a crash in which the front corner of a vehicle collides with another car, a tree or a pole. It is more stringent than the U.S. government's test, which simulates a collision in which two vehicles or objects meet head-on.
"Toyota engineers have a lot of work to do to match the performance of their competitors," Adrian Lund, the insurance group's president, said in a statement.
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