{"id":297,"date":"2006-12-19T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/2006\/mini-cooper-marginal-rear-safety\/"},"modified":"2006-12-19T17:29:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T01:29:57","slug":"mini-cooper-marginal-rear-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"MINI Cooper &#8220;Marginal&#8221; Rear Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard on CNN this morning that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety had released a new report on the safety of <em>mini cars<\/em> and they specifically mentioned the MINI Cooper has being highlighted for poor rear safety. <\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iihs.org\/sr\/pdfs\/sr4110.pdf\">a summary of the report<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iihs.org\/news\/default.html\">go here<\/a> for a bunch of links about the study. Bottom line is that the MINI (up to and including the &#8217;06 models) scored Good for front protection, Acceptable for side, and Marginal for the rear. Contrast this with the Nissan Versa that was top with Good protection all around, and the Hyundai Accent\/Kia Rio which finished last with Acceptable front, Poor side and rear. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> GBMini posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbmini.net\/mtblog\/archive\/2006\/12\/lies_damn_lies.shtml\">a good debunking<\/a> of the report; Motoringfile <a href=\"http:\/\/motoringfile.com\/2006\/12\/19\/abc-news-on-sub-compact-safety\/\">posted a link<\/a> and, of course, the MINI fanboys got their knickers in a twist that someone dare say something negative about our precious tin cans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard on CNN this morning that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety had released a new report on the safety of mini cars and they specifically mentioned the MINI Cooper has being highlighted for poor rear safety. You can find a summary of the report or go here for a bunch of links about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MINI Cooper &#8220;Marginal&#8221; Rear Safety&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mini-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}