The American Institute for highway safety (IHS) a crash test, to emphasize the big difference in safety between a Nissan Tsuru 2015 (the cheapest sedan of Nissan in Mexico) and a Nissan Versa 2016 (the cheapest sedan of Nissan in the United States).

In a semi-head-on collision between two vehicles, the cabin of Nissan Tsuru deforms too fatally wounding the driver, While the Nissan Versa remains relatively intact.