No Fog Lights? No Worries. Mazda Cited For Adept Headlights Equally Five Models Destination Upwardly Equally Superlative Security Picks


When Mazda offset came out alongside the all-new Mazda3 together with refreshed Mazda6, 1 of the complaints lashed out on these 2 vehicles is the lack of front end fog lights. Though engineers did grapple to tuck the purpose into the headlights, it nonetheless was a trouble concern for those who’re used to seeing additional prepare of driving lights mounted closer to the ground.

Well, worry no more, because the U.S.-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) confirmed what Mazda was telling everyone all along: their headlights are okay. True enough, the 2020 Mazda3, Mazda6, together with fifty-fifty the CX-3, together with CX-5 were awarded alongside the highest Top Safety Pick+ award. Meanwhile, the Mazda’s CX-9 earns an additional Top Safety Pick for 2020 (when equipped alongside the ALH headlights).

This agency Mazda earned to a greater extent than awards than whatsoever other automaker from IIHS, beating fifty-fifty the likes of safety-minded Subaru together with Volvo.

To qualify for the 2020 Top Safety Pick together with Top Safety Pick+ awards, Mazda vehicles earned proficient ratings inward each of the IIHS’s 6 crashworthiness evaluations: moderate overlap front, driver-side pocket-sized overlap front, passenger-side pocket-sized overlap front, side, roof strength, together with caput restraints & seats. Mazda vehicles besides earned advanced or superior ratings for front end crash prevention inward both vehicle-to-vehicle together with vehicle-to-pedestrian evaluations. Additionally, Mazda achieved proficient or acceptable headlight ratings, alongside the “plus” awarded to its models that come upwards only alongside proficient or acceptable rated headlights (this discounts the locally-speced 2020 CX-3 which comes alongside only element of group VII headlights).

Also helping Mazda orbit this high security rating is its umbrella of advanced driver assistance technologies that brand usage of milliwave radars together with cameras. Called i-Activsense, it’s available inward sure enough Mazda3, CX-30, together with CX-8 models inward the Philippines.

They include active security technologies that back upwards safer driving yesteryear helping the driver to recognize potential hazards, together with pre-crash security technologies which aid to avert collisions or trim down their severity inward situations where they cannot hold out avoided. These technologies include Smart City Brake Support, Smart Brake Support alongside Collision Warning, Mazda Radar Cruise Control, Blind Spot Monitoring alongside Rear Cross-Traffic Alert, Lane Departure Warning System alongside Lane-Keep Assist, Driver Attention Alert, High Beam Control, together with Adaptive Front-Lighting System.