Tougher federal crash tests for 2011 models, including for the first time a female dummy and a side crash into a pole, clearly made it harder to get top 5-star scores.
Also for the first time, the feds are giving the vehicle an overall score of 1 to 5 stars, in addition to the scores in the individual tests and just two of the first 34 vehicles tested the new way earned a 5-star overall score: the 2011 BMW 5 Series and the 2011 Hyundai Sonata.
On the downside: The 2011 Toyota Camry, the best-selling U.S. car, got just 3 stars overall -- after the virtually identical 2010 got top scores. Toyota took it on the chin -- the hybrid Camry was the only other vehicle to get 3 stars overall.
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