Latest NCAP Results:

Long Time Lurker

Some surprisingly poor performances from Mazda & Audi while Lancia have what can only be described as a bad day. Apparently the Ypsilon went on fire after the test but the footage wasn't released

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trabpc

Dacia logan mcv thingy. Horrible name, Horrible car, horrible safety....

colm_mcm

should be noted that the crash tests get tougher with time and most 5 star cars wouldn't get them again I retested.
also like the infamous emissions scandal, manufacturers are engineering the cars specifically to do well in set tests

Zubeneschamali

colm_mcm wrote: »

like the infamous emissions scandal, manufacturers are engineering the cars specifically to do well in set tests

Engineering a car for the crash test really makes the car safer in a 30 mph offset crash, or whatever they are testing for. It doesn't mean the car will do well in some other real world crash, but it is not really like the emissions tests.

To be like the emissions test fraud, the car would have to have a special "crash test" mode where the airbags work, even though they never work in a real crash.

Oafley Jones

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Engineering a car for the crash test really makes the car safer in a 30 mph offset crash, or whatever they are testing for. It doesn't mean the car will do well in some other real world crash, but it is not really like the emissions tests.

To be like the emissions test fraud, the car would have to have a special "crash test" mode where the airbags work, even though they never work in a real crash.

It's one thing to have a piece of software that changes the profile of an engine, but the chassis is the chassis and its going to be the same piece of steel that deals with the various tests from European to the US and (quite tough apparently) Australian.

colm_mcm

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Engineering a car for the crash test really makes the car safer in a 30 mph offset crash, or whatever they are testing for. It doesn't mean the car will do well in some other real world crash, but it is not really like the emissions tests.

To be like the emissions test fraud, the car would have to have a special "crash test" mode where the airbags work, even though they never work in a real crash.

It makes it safer at that exact point at that speed in LHD cars.