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The Syrian foreign minister told news people they didn't use gas on civilians. They invited group to take THEIR tour as proof of their innocence. This crash report gives us EXPERT testimony that once again Patriots suck. I am older and believe that both stories are smoke and mirror lies.
 
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Croat, can you explain how you determined that the Patriot was 10th.?

It appears that the vehicles grouped according to the right column are listed in alphabetical order. So, the 5 vehicles with the red "P" seem to be equal, not ranked 7, 8,9, 10, and 11.

Does the article say somewhere else that the vehicles are ranked in order 1 to 17? Is there more data that shows the Buick Encore had a score higher than the Patriot?
 
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misleading because it says 2013 top safety pick.....
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My hunch above about rankings was correct, as can be seen at the actual test site link: http://www.iihs.org/ratings/summary.aspx?class=58

Yes, Croat's title and follow up is indeed misleading. I would be more appropriate to say that only 2 vehicles here passed the new front impact test and all the rest need to catch up.

Kudos to the Forester and Outlander.

Shame on the newly redesigned Escape and others that missed the mark.

The Patriot? It still ranked as a Top Safety Pick along with most of the others in its class. Not shabby, but there is room for improvement.
 
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Friends wife has a forester ... I wouldn't wish that upon anyone.
 
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Cute :)
 
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So, a front-on collision with a small (25%) overlap is rated as "poor", but the same collision with a moderate overlap (what moderate equates to isn't specified, but you'd have to guess at around 50%) is rated as "good". In that case, if a crash is inevitable, the safest thing to do is to steer towards whatever it is you are going to hit.
 
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umm I'm not going to do that... but you can if you want !
 
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I think people are making WAY too much out of vehicles( and the Patriot )not passing this test. The fact is it is a NEW test and these vehicles never had to pass it before. The Patriot is pretty much unchanged other than some cosmetics since it's introduction in 2007. I wouldn't expect it to pass a test that was 1st announced in August of 2012. At the least I wouldn't hold it against it if it didn't.

We need to give the car mfg's a chance to work on vehicles to pass this test if this is indeed the new standard for judging safety. I just don't get people being upset if any vehicle doesn't pass it. Going forward if this is the standard to meet and the new cars don't meet it THEN get upset. IMO 2015 is when you start expecting cars to meet it.

Expecting the Patriot to pass a test developed in mid 2012 when the vehicle was designed in 2006 is like a teacher giving you your final exam on the 1st day of class and expecting you to get an A. Just unrealistic.

I for one feel very safe in my Patriot.
 
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I'm so sick of negative thread titles for the jeep patriot. The jeep patriot does NOT rank poorly in front crash tests. This is a negative generalization that comes from a certain weird little test that was just invented a few months ago of a very particular crash angle. Are we all trying to prevent chrysler from selling and making future patriots? naysayers feed off this crap from this forum.
 
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