These cars are sold under contract to vehicle salvage operations. Side impact information can also be found at the EuroNCAP and Australian NCAP sites. The Institute doesn't perform rear crashes to assess the protection offered by various models. The head restraint's job is to catch the head and make sure it moves with the rest of the body before the strains in the neck become injurious. Our head restraint ratings are based on how high and how close to the back of the head of an average size human form the different head restraints fit.
All convertible models combined represent a very small part of the new car market.
Convertibles are likely less crashworthy than the same model with a hardtop, despite manufacturers' efforts to replace the strength missing with the roof structure. At the 95th percentile, roughly 5 percent of the studied population is larger and the remainder smaller. An individual can have an average standing height, but taller than average sitting height and hence shorter than average legs. In the field of car safety engineering, 50th percentile is sometimes shorthand for 50th percentile adult male and 95th percentile is shorthand for 95th percentile adult male, whereas 5th percentile is shorthand for 5th percentile adult female. Thus 50th percentile is not the average human, nor is 5th percentile the average woman.