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    Honda ACE

    In response to the growing popularity of pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles and the subsequent rise in injuries and fatalities resulting from collisions between vehicles of different sizes, Honda has worked to improve occupant protection while improving compatibility between vehicles.

    The Advanced Compatibility Engineering body structure, which represents a further evolution of Honda's proprietary "G-Force Control" (G-CON) collision safety body technology, employs an innovative new front-end frame structure that helps reduce the potential concentrated force of an impact by dispersing and absorbing crash energy over a larger area. The design also helps reduce the potential for misalignment with the frame of the opposing vehicle. Taken together, these features result in improved compatibility between vehicles of different sizes with significantly enhanced occupant protection and reduced aggressivity toward other vehicles in a collision.



    Even before the application of this new compatibility design, a number of Honda and Acura light truck models - including the Honda Pilot and Acura MDX - employ unibody structures designed to reduce aggressivity toward other vehicles, along with front bumper brackets that reduce the chance of bumper override that can occur in frontal collisions between vehicles of differing heights.

    Honda has introduced the Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) body structure to both improve protection of occupants and reduce aggressiveness to other vehicles. The design will be launched in the U.S. on the 2005 Odyssey and Acura RL.



    Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) Body Structure

    Honda is taking additional steps to improve compatibility across the full range of Honda automobiles through the application of its innovative Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) body structure. Honda's commitment to the study of car-to-car crash dynamics led to the opening of the world's most sophisticated indoor car-to-car crash test facility in Tochigi, Japan, in March 2001. Research at this facility played a critical role in the development of Honda's Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) body structure, introduced on the Japan-market Life minivehicle this past September. By improving the dispersion of collision forces over a larger frontal area while reducing the potential for vertical or lateral misalignment of vehicle safety structures, the ACE body structure delivers improved protection for vehicle occupants while at the same time reducing aggressivity toward other vehicles in a frontal collision.

    In an offset frontal crash test of the new 2004 model Japan-market Life minivehicle with ACE technology against an Acura RL luxury sedan, the Life sustained substantially less damage than the previous generation vehicle under the same test conditions. Energy absorption of the engine compartment was increased by 50 percent while load on the passenger compartment was reduced by 30 percent. The 2005 model Honda Odyssey minivan and the Acura RL sedan will be the first North American models to feature this new technology. The ACE body structure will be applied to all new vehicle platforms over the next six to seven years.




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