The 2010 Mitsubishi Galant, which can be purchased at New Hampshire Mitsubishi Dealer, was ranked number 19 out of 21 Affordable Midsize Cars.  It comes with a 2.4 liter in-line four cylinder engine which generates 155 horsepower.  It is paired with a four speed automatic transmission.

The Galant did very well on crash tests.  They receive five stars on all crash tests except one, they earned four stars for protecting the driver in frontal impact crashes.  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave the 2009 model, which can be found at AL Used Car Dealership, it’s top ranking of “Good” in both frontal and side impact tests.  They did however, receive the worst ranking of “Poor” for it’s ability to protect the drivers neck in a rear-impact crash.  The Galant does come with a long list of safety features though.  Some of them include; frontal airbags for both the driver and front passenger, torso-protecting side impact airbags for front seat passengers and full length head curtain airbags to protect all occupants in a side collision.  It also comes with four-wheel anti-lock disc brakes with Electronic Brake-force Distribution and Stability Control.

Another nice vehicle to try out is the, 2010 Toyota Camry Hybrid, which can be found at Toyota Dealer Virginia.  It was ranked number 13out of 19 Affordable Midsize Cars.  It comes with a 2.4 liter four cylinder engine that creates 147 horsepower and 138 pound feet of torque along with a supplementary electric motor that creates a combined output totaling 187 horsepower.  The Camry has also received high remarks about it’s Continuously Variable  Transmission.  The Camry Hybrid gets 31/35 mpg. city/highway fuel economy and once drivers learn how to keep the Camry Hybrid in electric mode, it can travel up to 20 miles on battery power alone.

Toyota comes with a pretty decent protection package.  It consists of three years or 36,000 mile basic warranty and a five year or 60,000 mile powertrain warranty.  The hybrid components are covered for eight years or 100,000 miles.  The federal government gave the hybrid five stars in both frontal and side impact testing and four stars for rollover testing.  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety does not test hybrid models separate from their gasoline powered models, but the gasoline powered Camry received a ranking of “Good” from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety for both frontal offset and side impact tests.  The hybrid also offers Toyota’s Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management System.  This system controls the vehicles stability and traction systems.  Even though it has the same component system as a standard Camry, the VDIM allows for it’s safety systems to operate as a unit.