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My first post in this thread only agreed sillyxone's point that Jenn was lucky and the article doesn't prove CX-5 is safer than any other competitors in the same class. Worse when people saw the picture of totally crushed passenger area the bad feeling would come up. Honestly all other compact CUVs may look the same under similar collision. I simply think this is not a good "testament to Mazda safety"!
As for poorer NHTSA frontal crash test ratings for 2016 CX-5, I myself also got caught by surprise, after recommending CX-5 to many friends and family saying it has all 5-star NHTSA frontal crash ratings printed on the window sticker! But your statement about CX-5 is "similar to the Rouge, the 2015 CR-V and Rav-4" is simply incorrect. 2015 CX-5 has the best all 5-star ratings in NHTSA frontal crash ratings. It's 2016 CX-5 which got downgraded and no longer can compete with others. In fact, the 3-star passenger side rating is the worse in the class! Here are NHTSA data I tabulated for US top 10 selling compact CUV/SUVs:
| 2016 US Top 10 Compact SUV/CUVs NHTSA Data | Overall Ratings | Overall Front Star Rating | Front Driver Side | Front Passenger Side | Recalls | Complaints | 2016 Sales |
| Honda CR-V | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 45 | 357,335 |
| Toyota RAV4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 50 | 352,154 |
| Nissan Rogue | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 329,904 |
| Ford Escape | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 54 | 307,069 |
| Chevrolet Equinox | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 242,195 |
| Jeep Cherokee | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 77 | 199,736 |
| Subaru Forester | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 36 | 178,593 |
| Jeep Patriot | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 121,926 |
| Mazda CX-5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 82 | 112,235 |
| Jeep Renegade | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 44 | 106,606 |
I also noticed that 2016 CX-5 has the most number of recalls and the most number of complaints! Mind you 2016 CX-5 sold about one-third of units comparing to top 4 selling CUVs, this number of complaints means very significant percentage wise! Even each Jeep has less complaints! These bad NHTSA data on CX-5 are not targeted by some special groups who are filing too many complaints against CX-5 trying to damage CX-5's reputation like one member here insisted. I do believe these NHTSA data indicate one of the reasons why CX-5 sales couldn't increase as fast as Nissan Rogue did in the US.
Here are more discussions about NHTSA crash rating downgrading. And I do believe recent Special Service Program A6 is for fixing high Nij number on passenger side.
2016 CX-5 NHTSA Crash-Test Safety Rating: 3 (out of 5) for Frontal Crash - Passenger
