2015 Nissan Versa Note

minicar / 4-door hatchback

Crashworthiness

Rating overview
Moderate overlap front: original test

Crash avoidance & mitigation

Front crash prevention
Not available

Key

  • G
    Good
  • A
    Acceptable
  • M
    Marginal
  • P
    Poor
  • Superior
  • Advanced
  • Basic

Some ratings use a scale of Poor to Good. Others range from Basic to Superior.

Moderate overlap front: original test

Rating applies to 2014-15 models

Tested vehicle: 2014 Nissan Versa Note SL 4-door

The Nissan Versa hatchback was redesigned for the 2014 model year after a one-year absence from the market and renamed the Versa Note. Nissan believes the Versa Note is sufficiently different from the Versa 4-door sedan that the two variants do not share ratings. Moderate overlap frontal ratings are assigned by the Institute based on a test conducted by Nissan as part of frontal crash test verification.

Overall evaluation
Structure and safety cage
Driver injury measures
Head/neck
Chest
Leg/foot, left
Leg/foot, right
Driver restraints and dummy kinematics
Technical measurements for this test

Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side

Test ID VTF1313
Footwell intrusion
Footrest (cm) 9
Left (cm) 13
Center (cm) 13
Right (cm) 13
Brake pedal (cm) 7
Instrument panel rearward movement
Left (cm) 1
Right (cm) 4
Steering column movement
Upward (cm) 7
Rearward (cm) 0
A-pillar rearward movement (cm) 3

Driver injury measures

Test ID VTF1313
Head
HIC-15 428
Peak gs at hard contact 81
Neck
Tension (kN) 1.0
Extension bending moment (Nm) 26
Maximum Nij 0.28
Chest maximum compression (mm) 34
Legs
Femur force - left (kN) 3.0
Femur force - right (kN) 2.0
Knee displacement - left (mm) 0
Knee displacement - right (mm) 1
Maximum tibia index - left 0.38
Maximum tibia index - right 0.95
Tibia axial force - left (kN) 2.2
Tibia axial force - right (kN) 2.1
Foot acceleration (g)
Left 82
Right 175

How the moderate overlap front test is conducted