Check out our Motor Trend video inside look at an IIHS overlap test with the 2016 Honda Pilot!
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00:03 Charge is complete.
00:12 Test commits in four seconds.
00:15 Three, two, one.
00:18 The vehicle is operating.
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01:00 What we did is we stripped it about 30% on the passenger side.
01:04 So all the skin, all the panels are removed.
01:06 The red represents our 590 megapascal steel.
01:10 Main components from a small overlap condition
01:14 is this part of the ace body structure,
01:15 which we call the elephant nose.
01:17 This represents aluminum.
01:18 We have an aluminum hood.
01:19 The green, which is down here in the lower A pillar,
01:21 and you can see it up here on the front roof rail
01:24 and the side roof rail back there,
01:25 that represents 980 megapascals.
01:28 Now we're starting to get into the ultra high strength steel.
01:31 When we get to the blue guy, which is my favorite,
01:33 that's 1,500 megapascals.
01:34 So that's what we consider a hot stamped part.
01:37 For frontal crash, what you just saw, the intrusion came in.
01:40 And if you saw the video, that barrier
01:42 stopped right here at this very, very hard component.
01:45 Another thing that we've done for rollover
01:47 as well is we've added very strong components
01:49 that go from the right side to the left side of the vehicle.
01:52 You can see here, these are 1,500.
01:55 So in a side impact crash, they're very, very strong.
01:57 They're going to resist either a telephone pole, a tree,
02:00 or another vehicle.
02:01 Inside here, this orange component is magnesium.
02:04 And so we're able to save weight.
02:06 The side curtain airbag, which is inside this rail here,
02:10 that goes all the way from this lower A pillar
02:12 all the way back to the tailgate area.
02:14 We've been developing this car for the last four or five
02:17 years.
02:18 We understand what it takes to make a safe vehicle
02:21 and to be able to put the different systems that we know
02:23 work, the different strength of materials that we know work,
02:26 and that provides good occupant protection.
02:28 And as a result, we do get very good ratings.
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