Haval Jolion scores five stars for safety
Chinese brand’s run of form in crash testing continues with its smallest offering, hybrid not includedThe Haval Jolion SUV has followed in the tyre tracks of the larger Haval H6 medium SUV and the larger-still GWM Ute by earning itself a maximum five-star ANCAP safety rating.
However, the top marks don’t apply to the flagship Hybrid variant of the Chinese brand’s all-new small SUV on account of its altered mechanical hardware – primarily the battery cell.
GWM-Haval’s compact SUV scored 90 per cent for adult occupant protection, 84 per cent for child occupant protection, 64 per cent for vulnerable road user protection and a note-worthy 92 per cent for its safety assists.
According to ANCAP, the only vague chink in the Jolion’s active safety suite were its “mixed” abilities to avoid a collision with pedestrians and cyclists.
Other mild blemishes included ‘marginal’ results for the legs of the driver in the frontal offset crash test, the chest of rear occupants in the full-width frontal test and pelvis of the driver in the side impact test.
Almost every other test yielded ‘good’ results and a couple of ‘adequate’ appraisals.
“This five-star ANCAP safety rating for the Jolion is the third awarded to GWM under ANCAP’s stringent 2020-2022 protocols,” said ANCAP chief executive officer Carla Hoorweg.
“There has been a significant amount of interest in a rating for this model and it has been shown to offer a high standard of safety.”
If GWM-Haval wants the Jolion Hybrid to be included in the almost range-wide five-star safety rating, the electrified city-SUV will have to undergo its own round of testing, just like the Haval H6 Hybrid and coupe-styled H6 GT did.
The GWM Ute was the first of the Chinese brand’s new-generation models to be awarded five stars under ANCAP’s latest, more stringent 2020-22 protocols, making it only the third ute on the Australian market to do so behind the Isuzu D-MAX and Mazda BT-50.
The Haval H6 followed suit in March, before the Hybrid and GT versions made it a clean-sweep for the medium SUV range in June.
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