2005 Infiniti Q45

large luxury car / 4-door sedan

2005 Infiniti Q45 4-door sedan
2003 Infiniti Q45 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 2003-06 models

Tested vehicle: 2003 Infiniti Q45 4-door

The Infiniti Q45 was redesigned for the 2002 model year, and the brake pedal was modified beginning with 2003 models to minimize its intrusion in frontal crashes. The car was discontinued after the 2006 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 well.

Dummy movement was well controlled. During rebound, the dummy's head hit only the head restraint.

Forces on both legs and feet were low, indicating that significant injury was unlikely.

Technical measurements for this test

Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side

Test ID CEF0302
Footwell intrusion
Footrest (cm) 12
Left (cm) 14
Center (cm) 16
Right (cm) 10
Brake pedal (cm) 3
Instrument panel rearward movement
Left (cm) -1
Right (cm) 0
Steering column movement
Upward (cm) 6
Rearward (cm) 0
A-pillar rearward movement (cm) 0

Driver injury measures

Test ID CEF0302
Head
HIC-15 209
Peak gs at hard contact no contact
Neck
Tension (kN) 1.0
Extension bending moment (Nm) 18
Maximum Nij 0.19
Chest maximum compression (mm) 26
Legs
Femur force - left (kN) 3.0
Femur force - right (kN) 0.8
Knee displacement - left (mm) 0
Knee displacement - right (mm) 3
Maximum tibia index - left 0.50
Maximum tibia index - right 0.65
Tibia axial force - left (kN) 1.8
Tibia axial force - right (kN) 2.7
Foot acceleration (g)
Left 59
Right 53

About the original moderate overlap front test

Head restraints & seats

Seat type: All seats AHR manufactured after Oct 2004

Overall evaluation
Dynamic rating
Seat/head restraint geometry
Technical measurements for this test
Seat type All seats AHR manufactured after Oct 2004
Geometry
Backset (mm) 55
Distance below top of head (mm) 68
Seat design parameters
Pass/fail Fail
Max T1 acceleration (g) 9.9
Head contact time (ms) 101
Force rating 2
Neck forces
Max neck shear force (N) 191
Max neck tension (N) 864

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