Consumer Reports pulls Fit from recommended list following failed crash test

The Honda Fit‘s poor showing in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s latest round of crash testing has prompted Consumer Reports to boot the sub-compact from its coveted “recommended” list.

Shortly after the IIHS revealed that the Fit was a bottom performer in its new small overlap crash test, Consumer Reports took to the Web to announce that the Fit had officially lost the magazine’s recommended status. The IIHS said the Fit’s crash test results were among the worst because the car’s “intruding structure seriously compromised the driver’s space, and the steering column was pushed back toward the driver.”

Although the Chevrolet Spark was the only minicar to pass the IIHS’ small overlap test, those results were not enough to vault the car to CR‘s recommended list. CR notes that the Spark scored just 36 out of 100 points in its testing, which is “far too low for us to recommend it regardless of its crash protection.”

The Fit might not be absent from CR‘s recommended list for very long, however. Honda’s 2015 Fit will launch this spring, with that all-new model expected to ace the IIHS’ crash tests.