In Europe, Sweden specifically, there’s a safety exam known as the Moose Test, sometimes called the Elk Test. It aims to ensure a car can sharply perform an s-shaped maneuver to avoid unexpected ...

Swedish publication Teknikens Värld has a reputation for calling out automakers who fail its proprietary moose test, in which a fully loaded vehicle is driven through an S-shaped obstacle-avoidance ...

Apparently, a 'Moose Test' is when a car must veer to avoid something like a moose. If you don't live in an area where a moose, bear, or buck may wander across the road, you may be able to equate this ...

One of the most difficult safety tests in the automotive world, aside from actual crash tests, is the dreaded moose test. No doubt, many car manufacturers have had their automobiles fail badly at this ...

It’s no secret that Porsche makes great handling cars but we don’t always link that ability to safety. A new video demonstrating how the Boxster handles the infamous Moose Test might change that ...

The Tesla Model 3 has been put through the “moose test” in order to test its handling capabilities. The “moose test” is an evasive maneuver test that consists of determining how well a certain vehicle ...

Sidd started as a freelance writer for TopSpeed back in 2017 and took up a full-time position a year later. 2,100+ articles later, he got into the editorial side of things and is now the sitewide ...

Crash testing a vehicle versus moose scenario might come off as a joke, but if you drive around in Sweden, Canada, the Northern U.S. Europe, Japan (apparently!) or anywhere where Alces alces roam, you ...

The new Mercedes-AMG SL 63 is a seductive-looking car with stunning levels of performance and comfort. For those in the market for a fast convertible, it is one of the better options out there. But if ...

Tesla's Model Y is heavier and taller than the Model 3, so one might expect it to struggle in the moose test. However, the Model 3 performed like a champion in the moose test, which raised the bar for ...

You’d’ve thought BMW knows how to make a car nimble and agile. After all, this is their bread and butter. And yet, the battery-electric i4 doesn’t seem to follow the steps of its more famous ancestors ...

Former Daimler executive Juergen Hubbert talked about how Mercedes-Benz came back from its "flip over" crisis in 1997. The automaker's new A class compact car rolled over during tests designed to ...