Liberty and Outback rated five-star safe

Subaru's new-generation sedan and wagon receive qualified thumbs up from ANCAP

The Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) has issued a statement commending the next generation of Subaru Outback and Liberty for achieving the maximum safety rating of five stars.

It's business as usual for Subaru, which was among the first importers to recognise the importance of ANCAP's independent crash safety testing. The cars the new Outback and Liberty will replace from early next year are also five-star safe, as tested by ANCAP.

According to the safety authority, the two Subarus – sharing the same platform and the underlying safety structure – rated well for adult occupant protection, including whiplash, and also performed well in pedestrian protection testing.

"Since 2007, Subaru has built a solid reputation for vehicle safety, with five-star ANCAP safety ratings available across its fleet. This continues today with these latest results," said ANCAP Chairman Lauchlan McIntosh, who also remarked that the new models were tested against a stricter regime for 2015.

"This is particularly encouraging given both of these new models have been assessed against ANCAP's more stringent 2015 requirements."

It wasn't all rosy, however, with the ANCAP chairman criticising the new Subaru variants for lacking daytime running lights and tyre pressure monitoring in the Australian market when they go on sale here early next year.

"It is good to see safety assist technologies becoming increasingly available, but ANCAP encourages Subaru, and all other manufacturers, to include these technologies as standard in all models and all markets. We know Australians value safety very highly so the same safety features should be included as standard in all countries in which the cars are sold," McIntosh was quoted saying in the press release.

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