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Last Auto account – Citroen Nemo fails elk analysis German ADAC puts Citroen Nemo, Fiat Qubo and Peugeot Bipper Tepee through its elk bend analysis with adverse consequences.

The Nemo has been larboard floundering afterwards getting subjected to the acclaimed elk test. The bend manoeuvre was agitated out by the ADAC, the German agnate of the AA, and Which? Magazine as allotment of a accumulation analysis of the mechanically identical Fiat Qubo, Citroen Nemo Multispace and Peugeot Bipper Tepee.

The Qubo was activated first, and was apprenticed appear a artifice at 50mph, and again swerved larboard and right, as if abstention a devious agrarian animal, appropriately the test’s name. The Fiat anesthetized acknowledgment to its alternative ESP system.

However, at the aforementioned speed, the non-ESP able Nemo addled assimilate its roof if subjected to the manoeuvre. As the Bipper Tepee didn’t affection ESP, it was not tested.

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Peugeot and Citroen don’t action ESP on the Bipper Tepee and Nemo Multispace respectively, while it costs £310 added on diesel-powered Qubos and is not accessible on the petrol version.

As a result, Citroen has accepted that ESP will be adapted as accepted on oil burners from September, while petrol models will get it after as it will accept to be developed from scratch. Expect Fiat and Peugeot to chase suit.

The analysis demonstrates the account of ESP systems that has led to it acceptable binding for all new cars awash actuality from 2012.

A Citroen agent added that admitting the ballyhoo of the elk test, it’s not something the aggregation tests its cars for. â??The elk analysis is acutely severe, so our accustomed procedures don’t cover it. Instead, they reflect added real-life conditions.â?