LATEST EURO NCAP RESULTS
Latest Euro NCAP after-effects Tougher Euro NCAP analysis makes best appraisement added admired than ever, but some cars still book badly
The Ford Focus, Honda Civic, Audi Q3 and Ford Ranger accept all becoming best ratings in the latest annular of Euro NCAP tests.
The Ford Focus – the second-best affairs car in Britain in January – becoming a account of 92 per cent to defended a 5 brilliant rating, while the Ford Ranger denticulate 96 per cent in developed and 86 per cent in adolescent addressee safety, with 81 per cent in banal assurance to lock in its 5 brilliant performance.
The Nissan Leaf has denticulate a best appraisement afterwards getting reassessed, while the Volvo V60 denticulate 100 per cent in the Assurance Assist belief as allotment of its best rating. The Audi Q3, Honda Civic, BMW X1, BMW 1 Series and Subaru XV all best up the top rating.Â
The alone poor aftereffect came from Jeep. The Jeep Compass underperformed in the side-impact pole test, while it fared even worse by scoring alone 23 per cent in the banal assurance area. The low scoring meant that, even admitting it was activated with alternative bust airbags, it could alone acquire a two-star rating.
The next annular of Euro NCAP after-effects are due in backward May 2012.
| Car | Overall rating | Adult occupant | Child occupant | Pedestrian | Safety assist |
| Audi Q3 | 5 stars | 94% | 85% | 52% | 86% |
| BMW 1 Series | 5 stars | 91% | 83% | 63% | 86% |
| BMW X1 | 5 stars | 87% | 86% | 64% | 71% |
| Ford Focus | 5 stars | 92% | 82% | 63% | 72% |
| Ford Ranger | 5 stars | 96% | 86% | 81% | 71% |
| Honda Civic | 5 stars | 94% | 83% | 69% | 86% |
| Jeep Compass | 2 stars | 61% | 76% | 23% | 43% |
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Mercedes M-Class |
5 stars | 96% | 75% | 60% | 86% |
| Nissan Leaf | 5 stars | 89% | 83% | 65% | 84% |
| Subaru XV | 5 stars | 86% | 90% | 64% | 86% |
| Volvo V60 | 5 stars | 94% | 82% | 64% | 100% |
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LATEST EURO NCAP RESULTS
Latest Euro NCAP after-effects Audi A1, MINI Countryman and Ford C-MAX account well, Chinese Landwind SUV beneath so.
The after-effects are in! Fourteen new cars accept hit the bank in the name of assurance in the latest annular of Euro NCAP blast tests, including the Landwind CV9 SUV which is the aboriginal Chinese-built car to be tested.
After an bootless aboriginal addition assimilate the European bazaar in 2005, Landwind has alternate with the CV9 MPV – a car which the maker claims “has been revamped to accommodated the strictest European assurance standards”.
However, if compared to the articulation leaders, the CV9 lacks assurance kit like ancillary airbags, a arch aegis accessory and cyberbanking adherence control, and could alone administer a two brilliant rating.
The Audi A1, Citroen C4, MINI Countryman, Ford C-MAX and Grand C-MAX, Hyundai ix35, Kia Sportage , Vauxhall Meriva and VW Passat and Sharan all accustomed the best 5 brilliant award.Â
The Kia Venga was retested and had its four-star appraisement upped to the best five. The new Nissan Micra denticulate four stars, as did the Jaguar XF, which absent out on a 5 brilliant account acknowledgment to its poor achievement in the ancillary appulse test. The new VW Amorok analeptic denticulate four-stars admitting alms the best banal aegis so far activated by Euro NCAP.
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