New Scheme Euro NCAP ranking-models available in India

Disclaimer: Euro NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) is an agency which tests the safety aspects of European model cars. This models may be different in safety features than the one we could buy in the Indian market. So please do not consider this result as the best. They have announced the crash test results of 33 cars in which a few models are available in the Indian market which I will compare here. I have included the yet to be ‘launched’ Mitsubishi lancer and Skoda Yeti. Some models tested were released earlier than 2009.

Please see the Note at the end on ‘comparable cars’.

There are still more models in the Indian market which already got 5star NCAP rating, but with their previous system of rating!

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For more details please see the link,
Euro NCAP – For safer cars | Euro NCAP’s top five achievers of 2009

VW Golf (gen VI) again reached the top as the safest car! Happy news for Hyundai i20 owners:OT that this model got the 4th place (top if we consider only the models available in India) in the crash test results with the revised system. Again this is considering cars of similar mass.

Suzuki Alto (A star- as discussed by ‘sidindica’ in another post) is in the last (Chevrolet Spark aka Beat ‘4 stars’ being close but better) position with 3 stars.

Note: Comparable cars – Euro NCAP’s frontal impact test simulates a car crashing into another of similar mass and structure. In real life, when two cars collide the vehicle with the higher mass has an advantage over the lighter one. Generally speaking, vehicles with higher structures tend to fare better in accidents than those with lower structures. Therefore, ratings are comparable only between cars of similar mass and with broadly similar structures. Euro NCAP groups cars into the following structural categories: passenger car, MPV, off-roader, roadster and pickup. Within each of those categories, cars which are within 150kg of one another are considered comparable. (Source: Euro NCAP website)

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