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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is a U.S. non-profit organization funded by auto insurers, established in 1959 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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You're in luck; we've compiled a list of our top vehicle picks for teen drivers.
(See " The best cars for teen drivers ")We assembled our list by looking at safety information from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety , information on pricing from Edmunds.com , reliability data from TrueDelta , and the ever-so-important fuel economy from Fuelly .Finally, we looked at the cost of insurance. The auto insurance rates shown on our list of cars will differ from yours, since your personal information like location, miles driven per year, etc. are rating factors that change premiums. However, our list will give you a general idea of how our top picks' car insurance rates stack up against each other and give you a starting point for getting your own quotes.At the top of our list was the 2008 Audi A3, but there are also models manufactured by Honda, Ford, Nissan and many others, so likely there is a car that you and your son can agree on would be a good fit for him. If not, you can do your ...It's no secret that newly minted young drivers are inexperienced risk-takers.Their inexperience comes at a price, both in accidents and insurance rates. According to...
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Sifting through today's scores of crossover utility vehicles, or CUVs, is a daunting task. There are more than 90 crossovers on the market, according to the consumer...
A few years ago, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) set out to really test car bumpers - to put them through the paces of a real-life crash. Engineers...
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The ground immediately behind your car could hide a toddler. Or 62 of them.That's how many children KidsAndCars.org managed to hide in an SUV driver's blind spot. An...
Is a knee air bag going to save your life? Probably not. But it could make a hospital stay shorter, or prevent an injury altogether.There is no dispute that air bags...
The best car for your teenager is a 2008 Audi A3.Go tell him or her the good news. We'll wait here.If only it were that easy. Teenagers know which cars they want. It...
George Jetson's flying car hasn't hit car showrooms yet, but there are plenty of other options beginning to make driving as easy as flying there in a car that folds ...
Adding a teenage driver to your car insurance policy will raise your rates. But you can control how much they'll climb.Having teens drive a Camry rather than a Corve...
Seven Hip Hatchbacks to Tempt Your Teen DriveFretting over the first car you buy for your teen is an unavoidable part of that new-license, first-car rite of passage....
Traffic stinks. It stinks so much, in fact, that researchers invest countless hours in an effort to calculate exactly how many hours and how much money traffic costs...
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