Official Chevrolet Cruze 2009 safety rating results (2024)

Frontal Offset Deformable Barrier

16 Pts

Passenger

Driver

Whiplash Rear Impact

3.1 Pts

Front Seat

Lateral Impact

15.4 Pts

Car

Pole

The Cruze scored maximum points in the frontal impact, both the driver and the passenger dummies indicating good protection of all body regions. The passenger compartment remained stable, the windscreen pillar moving rearward only 5mm. Chevrolet were able to demonstrate that the knees and femurs of occupants of a different size from the test dummies, or those sat in different seating positions, would be similarly well protected. The car also scored full points in the side barrier impact. In the more severe side pole test, only the chest did not score maximum points, although protection in that area was still considered adequate. Protection against whiplash injuries in a rear impact was also good.

Crash Test Performance 23.3 Pts

Safety Features 6.0 Pts

CRS Installation Check 12.0 Pts

Based on dummy readings alone, the Cruze was awarded maximum points for its protection of the 18 month infant in the frontal and side impacts. Forward movement of the head of the 3 year dummy was well controlled and both dummies were properly contained within the protective shells of their respective restraints in the side impact. The passenger airbag can be disabled to allow a rearward facing child restraint to be used in that seating position. However, information provided to the driver regarding the status of the airbag is not sufficiently clear. A permanent label warns of the dangers of using a rearward facing child seat in that position without first disabling the airbag.

VRU Impact Protection

12.2 Pts

Speed Assistance 0 Pts

Electronic Stability Control 3 Pts

Seatbelt Reminder 2.0 Pts

Applies To	Front seats
Warning	Driver Seat	Front Passenger(s)	Rear Passenger(s)
Visual
Audible
Pass Fail Not available

Lane Support 0 Pts

AEB Inter-Urban 0 Pts

Electronic Stability Control is standard equipment on the Cruze, as is a seatbelt reminder for the driver and passenger seats.

Driver

Passenger

Rear

OTHER SAFETY SYSTEMS

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