Carsales Staff•7 Mar 2014
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Five stars for Corolla, WRX and Peugeot 5008
Puggy MPV, Subaru rally weapon and Toyota's small sedan earn top score in ANCAP crash safety testingAustralian crash safety testing authority, ANCAP, has announced three new five-star cars added to its 475-vehicle database.
Toyota's Corolla sedan is a recent release in Australia, but shares much of its architecture with the hatchback body style that has now been on sale for over 12 months and has also been rated five-star safe by ANCAP (the Australasian New Car Assessment Programme).
Subaru long ago established a close working relationship with ANCAP, and presents all its cars for assessment by the crash safety experts before they reach the local market. This is the case with the latest WRX, which is still a month away from a local launch. Five-star safety across the range is a key plank of Subaru's on-going marketing campaign. In this instance, according to ANCAP, the WRX has achieved a 'good' result for pedestrian safety – a relative rarity in Australia.
"This is the direction in which we want to see manufacturers heading," said ANCAP Chairman, Lauchlan McIntosh.
"In recent years we've seen manufacturers achieve vastly improved results with the majority of major brands now building to five-star standards. What we want to see now is manufacturers [striving] beyond the requirements – offering even higher levels of structural and active safety to consumers."
"Unfortunately none of the models in today's release are equipped with autonomous emergency braking [AEB] – an important safety feature that is now common on popular vehicles in Europe and the USA."
The third of the vehicle's to score five stars was the Peugeot 5008, which has been on sale for some time in Australia, and was assessed by Euro NCAP using that organisation's previous (2009) crash testing criteria to arrive at a five-star rating in its home market. As the picture here clearly indicates, the local rating for the 5008 was based on data supplied to ANCAP by Euro NCAP, rather than repeating the crash test on Australian turf.
"Consumers are now spoiled for choice with the number of five-star models on the market and ANCAP continues to push the boundaries by making it more difficult each year to achieve the top rating," said McIntosh, as quoted in a press release.
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