who_me_?
21-06-2006, 11:17 AM
Urrrr right...
Real World ? - No ESP, as a option anywhere in the range. The Passive safety has better be good as there is a vital missing Active safety feature to help you stop you having a accident in the first place...
Featured on some of the Ford and Holden ranges of course !
Mitsubishi 380 is 'safest car'
From:
By Bryan Littlely
June 21, 2006
THE Adelaide-built Mitsubishi 380 has scored the highest safety rating for an Australian-built passenger car in the latest round of independent crash testing.
The car, launched last October, has proved itself one of the safest on the road with an Australasian New Car Assessment Program score of 28.09 points - a rating of four stars.
"We're very pleased with the result," Mitsubishi spokesman Kevin Taylor said yesterday.
"We spent a lot of time with the fundamentals of the car, building safety into the car, and we were always very confident that it would be a solid four star rating.
"It was interesting to see how high the scores were in certain areas. In the side impact test, the 380 scored 15.69 out of 16. We scored close to maximum points in three areas.
"It is a credit to the team in manufacturing, from the bottom to the top."
The ANCAP testing also rated the Melbourne-built Ford Territory, a medium four-wheel-drive, at four stars with a score of 31.57 out of a possible 37 points.
Toyota's imported Yaris also scored four stars, with a test score of 29.46.
European-built cars, however, outshone Australia's best but were tested under different conditions with European NCAP scrutiny.
The Alfa Romeo 159 scored five stars (33.84 points out of 37) and the Renault Megane CC and Peugeot 407 also scored five stars in their categories.
The Nissan Pathfinder 4WD and Citroen C3 received four-star ratings under the Euro NCAP test.
RAA technical services manager Mark Borlace said the safety features of imported vehicles should be standard on all new cars.
"We would like to see curtain airbags available in all vehicles to protect against side impacts," he said.
The crash test procedures involve a frontal test at 64km/h where part of the vehicle hits a barrier and a side-impact test at 50km/h.
An optional pole test has a vehicle travelling sideways at 29km/h strike a round pole lined up with the driver's head.
This measures the effectiveness of head-protecting side airbags.
Real World ? - No ESP, as a option anywhere in the range. The Passive safety has better be good as there is a vital missing Active safety feature to help you stop you having a accident in the first place...
Featured on some of the Ford and Holden ranges of course !
Mitsubishi 380 is 'safest car'
From:
By Bryan Littlely
June 21, 2006
THE Adelaide-built Mitsubishi 380 has scored the highest safety rating for an Australian-built passenger car in the latest round of independent crash testing.
The car, launched last October, has proved itself one of the safest on the road with an Australasian New Car Assessment Program score of 28.09 points - a rating of four stars.
"We're very pleased with the result," Mitsubishi spokesman Kevin Taylor said yesterday.
"We spent a lot of time with the fundamentals of the car, building safety into the car, and we were always very confident that it would be a solid four star rating.
"It was interesting to see how high the scores were in certain areas. In the side impact test, the 380 scored 15.69 out of 16. We scored close to maximum points in three areas.
"It is a credit to the team in manufacturing, from the bottom to the top."
The ANCAP testing also rated the Melbourne-built Ford Territory, a medium four-wheel-drive, at four stars with a score of 31.57 out of a possible 37 points.
Toyota's imported Yaris also scored four stars, with a test score of 29.46.
European-built cars, however, outshone Australia's best but were tested under different conditions with European NCAP scrutiny.
The Alfa Romeo 159 scored five stars (33.84 points out of 37) and the Renault Megane CC and Peugeot 407 also scored five stars in their categories.
The Nissan Pathfinder 4WD and Citroen C3 received four-star ratings under the Euro NCAP test.
RAA technical services manager Mark Borlace said the safety features of imported vehicles should be standard on all new cars.
"We would like to see curtain airbags available in all vehicles to protect against side impacts," he said.
The crash test procedures involve a frontal test at 64km/h where part of the vehicle hits a barrier and a side-impact test at 50km/h.
An optional pole test has a vehicle travelling sideways at 29km/h strike a round pole lined up with the driver's head.
This measures the effectiveness of head-protecting side airbags.