The final round of safety tests for new cars in 2022 is here, and it’s an important one. The Euro NCAP organization, which conducts the tests, published the results of fourteen cars at once. Eleven of them, including the Skoda Octavia, received a five-star rating.
The other three cars have four stars. It is Volkswagen Touran – it has been sold in the current generation since 2015, and such a rating is also successful as the demands become more stringent – Peugeot 408 and Ford Puma. Of course, these are significantly newer, the “four hundred and eight” being new this year.
| The latest Euro NCAP safety test results | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template | Asterisks | Protection of adults | Rear protection for children | Security electronics |
| Chery Omoda5 | ***** | 87% | 87% | 88% |
| Ford Puma | **** | 75% | 84% | 69% |
| Ford Ranger | ***** | 84% | 90% | 84% |
| Land Rover Discovery Sport | ***** | 84% | 89% | 85% |
| Lexus RX | ***** | 90% | 87% | 91% |
| Lucid air | ***** | 90% | 91% | 84% |
| Maxus Mifa 9 | ***** | 93% | 89% | 83% |
| Mercedes-Benz GLC | ***** | ninety two% | 90% | 84% |
| MG 4 electric | ***** | 83% | 80% | 78% |
| peugeot 408 | **** | 76% | 84% | 65% |
| Skoda Octavia | ***** | 86% | 84% | 81% |
| Volkswagen Amarok | ***** | 84% | 90% | 84% |
| Volkswagen ID. Buzz | ***** | ninety two% | 87% | 90% |
| Volkswagen Touran | **** | 77% | 81% | 66% |
Let’s start alphabetically with the Chinese car Chery Omoda5. Although side airbags only protect the head, not the chest or pelvis – which is the norm for most cars – it has a high rating percentage. In the event of a side impact, the head airbags did not deploy properly, but the car manages to prevent collisions between the passengers inside. There is good protection against neck hyperextension in a rear-end collision front and rear, and children in the rear seats are also well protected.
Ford Puma it is second in the standings and the first of the cars that have not achieved the five stars. Puma adequately protects the crew in a frontal collision and very well in a side impact, but body movement in a side impact on the opposite side of the car is poorly controlled and there is no system to prevent passengers from colliding They. Children in the rear seats have good protection.
Ford Ranger a Volkswagen Amarok each has its own rating, but they were rated together because they are technically identical cars. It performed well in all tests, including side impacts, where the cars have a system to prevent passengers’ bodies from colliding with each other. This is typically a head airbag between the front seats. Children in the rear seats are also well protected.
Land Rover Discovery Sport shows excellent frontal occupant protection in a frontal impact and also received a good rating for a side pillar impact despite the fact that the side airbag did not deploy properly. The car has a central airbag between the front seats and, like most, it protects well against neck hyperextension in a rear-end collision. Children in the rear seats are also well protected.
Lexus RX it has the highest score in the field of electronic safety assistants and is also excellent in crew protection at the front. It has a central airbag between the front seats, which performed well in testing, but Euro NCAP still deducted points because, according to the scoresheet, the automaker “has not demonstrated that the system will provide similar protection in all cases.” “. The car protects the children in the back very well.
Electric Lucid air it’s a premium in keeping the kids in the back safe. It also protects the crew excellently in the front, with the exception of the thighs, where the protection is only average. But the central airbag works fine.
Large Chinese people carrier Maxus Mifa 9 obtained the best score, 93%, in the protection of the front passengers, thanks above all to the excellent results in frontal collisions with both deformable and fixed obstacles. Side impact protection with deformable obstacle and central airbag function is also good, worse with the driver’s chest in the event of a side impact with a pillar despite the presence of a side airbag. Child protection in the rear is excellent.
Mercedes-Benz GLC it lags behind the Maxus in front crew protection by only one percentage point, mainly due to the weak protection of the driver’s chest in the event of a side impact with a pillar. And this despite the presence of a side airbag. Child protection in the rear is excellent.
Electric MG 4 It earned five stars despite poor neck hyperextension protection in the rear seats and high body ejection in a side impact. In this discipline, however, it protects the pilot well, worse in a frontal impact for the pilot’s chest and the child’s head in the back. Otherwise, rear child protection is excellent.
peugeot 408 noted poor protection of the driver’s chest in a frontal collision, other parts of the body were better. It also performed decently in a side impact, but lacks a center airbag. The child protection in the rear in a frontal collision loses the dummies representing a ten-year-old in the neck and chest, but the car performs excellently in a side collision.
Skoda Octavia It is one of the few cars that has achieved the maximum rating of “Good” for body ejection in a side impact to the opposite side of the car. Despite the five-star rating, the central airbag, with which it is equipped, scores poorly. The driver’s chest protection in the event of a frontal and side impact against a pillar is average, the chest protection of an older child in the event of a side impact is weak.
Electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz The entire nose loses slightly in protecting the head of the front passengers in side impacts and in protecting the chest of the child in the rear in the event of impact with a fixed obstacle, otherwise the results are excellent for adults in the front and children behind. The central airbag also works well.
Finally a people carrier Volkswagen Touran it protects the crew excellently in the event of a side impact, a little worse – especially for the thighs of the person in front – in the event of a frontal impact. It also poorly monitors body ejection in a side impact to the opposite side of the car and has no central airbag.
Euro NCAP tested ten new cars, Chinese BYD also received five stars
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