Safety
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave the Outlander Good overall scores, the highest rating possible, in its frontal-offset and side-impact crash tests. It received an Acceptable rating for its ability to prevent whiplash injuries in rear-end collisions.
Standard safety features include antilock brakes, side-impact airbags for the front seats, side curtain airbags for the first two rows of seats and an electronic stability system. The curtains aren't designed to protect third-row passengers.
For a full list of safety features, check out the Standard Equipment & Specs page.
See also:
Assist grip
These grips are to support the body by hand while seated in the vehicle.
Caution
► Do not use the assist grips when getting into or out of the vehicle.
The assist grips could detach and ca ...
Installing a child restraint system to a 3-point type seat belt (with emergency/automatic
locking mechanism)
The 3-point type seat belts at the seat positions above can be converted from
normal emergency locking retractor (ELR) mode to automatic locking retractor (ALR)
mode. It must be so converted, wh ...
Selector lever operation
Except for vehicles with Sports mode
The transmission has 4 forward gears and 1 reverse gear.
The individual gears are selected automatically, depending on the position of
the gear selector leve ...