Air Bags
Every Malibu comes with six standard air bags:(1)
- Dual-stage frontal air bags (with right-front Passenger Sensing System) sense the severity of a crash, then determine if the air bags should be deployed and whether a full or less-than-full amount of inflation is to be used. General Motors' Passenger Sensing System is designed to help reduce the potential for inflation-induced injuries or fatalities to smaller occupants, including children, who may be not be seated properly in front of an active air bag. The system automatically switches the right-front passenger air bag on or off based on the passenger's weight and the type of pressure on the seat.
- Head-curtain side-impact air bags for front and rear outboard seating positions are mounted to the roof rails. They're designed to reduce the risk of head injuries to front-seat and rear-outboard occupants in certain side-impact collisions.
- Front-seat-mounted, side-impact thorax air bags for driver and front passenger are designed to help protect an adult's chest in a serious side-impact crash.
1 Head curtain side-impact air bags are designed to help reduce the risk of head and neck injuries. Even in vehicles equipped with air bags and the Passenger Sensing System, children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate infant, child or booster seat. Air bag inflation can cause severe injury or death to anyone too close to the bag when it deploys. Be sure every occupant is properly restrained. Never place a rear-facing infant restraint in the front seat of any vehicle equipped with an active frontal air bag. See the Owner's Manual and child safety seat instructions for more safety information.