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The thing is, though, the Cybertruck isn’t the only car on the road that’s never been crash-tested. As , that’s the case for a lot more cars than you might expect. Before you start freaking out, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety do still test the vast majority of new cars: With their limited resources, there are only so many cars that NHTSA and the IIHS can crash every year, so it makes sense they would focus on the most popular models.
Still, that does mean that some relatively common cars slip through the cracks. From the Porsche Macan to the BMW 7 Series and even the Land Rover Discovery, many luxury cars and other low-volume models have never been crash-tested. Automakers are still required to meet minimum crash safety standards, so there’s no reason to assume your new Macan is unsafe, but as Consumer Reports points out, it does leave buyers in the dark when they’re shopping for new cars.
NHTSA does randomly test cars to make sure they aren’t cutting corners, but you still have to put a lot of faith in the automakers themselves to ensure their cars are safe. With established automakers, that’s probably not a huge concern. “We often conduct up to 15,000 realistic crash simulations and about 150 vehicle crash tests to make an entirely new veh.