2005 Buick Rendezvous

midsize SUV / 4-door SUV

2005 Buick Rendezvous 4-door SUV
2002 Buick Rendezvous shown

Crashworthiness

Rating overview
Moderate overlap front: original test
Head restraints & seats

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 2002-07 models

Tested vehicle: 2002 Buick Rendezvous CXL 4-door 4wd

The Buick Rendezvous was introduced in the 2002 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
Dummy movement wasn't well controlled. There was far too much upward movement of the steering wheel and at the same time the driver's seat pitched forward toward the wheel. During rebound, the dummy's head did not come close to any stiff structure that could cause injury.

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.

The steering wheel moved upward far too much during the crash and the seat pitched forward.

Smeared greasepaint indicates that the dummy's head hit only the head restraint during rebound from the airbag.

Technical measurements for this test

Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side

Test ID CEF0120
Footwell intrusion
Footrest (cm) 13
Left (cm) 19
Center (cm) 20
Right (cm) 17
Brake pedal (cm) 23
Instrument panel rearward movement
Left (cm) 5
Right (cm) 4
Steering column movement
Upward (cm) 17
Rearward (cm) 0
A-pillar rearward movement (cm) 2

Driver injury measures

Test ID CEF0120
Head
HIC-15 228
Peak gs at hard contact no contact
Neck
Tension (kN) 1.6
Extension bending moment (Nm) 25
Maximum Nij 0.41
Chest maximum compression (mm) 29
Legs
Femur force - left (kN) 4.3
Femur force - right (kN) 3.4
Knee displacement - left (mm) 0
Knee displacement - right (mm) 0
Maximum tibia index - left 0.41
Maximum tibia index - right 0.78
Tibia axial force - left (kN) 2.0
Tibia axial force - right (kN) 1.5
Foot acceleration (g)
Left 105
Right 60

How the moderate overlap front test is conducted

Head restraints & seats

Seat type: All seats

Overall evaluation
Dynamic rating
Seat/head restraint geometry
Technical measurements for this test
Seat type All seats
Geometry
Backset (mm) 85
Distance below top of head (mm) 75
Seat design parameters
Pass/fail Fail
Max T1 acceleration (g) 13.6
Head contact time (ms) 113
Force rating 2
Neck forces
Max neck shear force (N) 198
Max neck tension (N) 670

How the head restraint & seat test is conducted
Currently, IIHS tests apply only to front seats.