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Originally Posted by RickyRoma
Hmm, hard to imagine convertables are safer than large luxury cars. I would like to think the Cayman S = Boxter but for the purpose of real world physics this is not true and not reliable. They require seperate tests.
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If you read the actual testing specs in the IIHS website, for example here
Frontal offset test information yuou will find that in a way, your correct. However, it has nothing to do with "luxury". Front impact tests are only relevant in the same class (think weight) of cars. So if your cayman smacks a H2 head-on, most likely you lose. This bit of info sometime is overlooked by owners of small cars talking about their wonderful front impact test scores but sometimes they tend to ignore the testing discussion on the website. However, that is not true on side-impact tests. Side impact test are all equal.