1999 Acura RL

large luxury car / 4-door sedan

Crashworthiness

Rating overview
Moderate overlap front: original test

Key

  • G
    Good
  • A
    Acceptable
  • M
    Marginal
  • P
    Poor
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Moderate overlap front: original test

Rating applies to 1996-2004 models

Tested vehicle: 2002 Acura 3.5 RL 4-door

The Acura RL was introduced in the 1996 model year.

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

Action shot taken during the frontal offset crash test.

The dummy's position in relation to the steering wheel and instrument panel after the crash test indicates that the driver's survival space was maintained reasonably well.

Smeared greasepaint indicates where the dummy's head hit the B-pillar and shoulder belt upper anchorage during rebound, producing a high head acceleration.

Forces on the lower right leg were high enough to indicate the possibility of injury.

Technical measurements for this test

Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side

Test ID CEF0224
Footwell intrusion
Footrest (cm) 13
Left (cm) 15
Center (cm) 24
Right (cm) 17
Brake pedal (cm) 13
Instrument panel rearward movement
Left (cm) 5
Right (cm) 6
Steering column movement
Upward (cm) 9
Rearward (cm) 4
A-pillar rearward movement (cm) 5

Driver injury measures

Test ID CEF0224
Head
HIC-15 356
Peak gs at hard contact 136
Neck
Tension (kN) 1.8
Extension bending moment (Nm) 22
Maximum Nij 0.31
Chest maximum compression (mm) 37
Legs
Femur force - left (kN) 0.8
Femur force - right (kN) 1.4
Knee displacement - left (mm) 0
Knee displacement - right (mm) 0
Maximum tibia index - left 0.43
Maximum tibia index - right 0.86
Tibia axial force - left (kN) 1.1
Tibia axial force - right (kN) 3.2
Foot acceleration (g)
Left 74
Right 79

How the moderate overlap front test is conducted