Ford Mustang Records Shock Two-Star Euro NCAP Safety Score
The Ford Mustang has been given a totally unexpected two-star safety rating by Euro NCAP. It’s the first car from a major manufacturer to score so low for almost a decade, and it’s not ideal for something that’s not that likely to make it to the end of its life without being crashed at least once.
The punishing Euro NCAP tests showed up major issues with airbags not protecting occupants properly, rear passengers slipping beneath seat belts and a lack of active safety technology like autonomous braking systems.
For comparison, the Dacia Sandero scored four of out five stars. In 2013.
In the frontal offset impact test, neither of the front airbags inflated enough to fully protect the occupants, and in the side impact test the ‘10-year-old’ dummy’s head actually squashed right through the under-inflated curtain airbag and hit the door trim.
Thatcham Research’s Director of Research, Matthew Avery, even went as far as to say that the test result “makes it unsuitable for carrying rear passengers.”
“On top this, it does not have basic life-saving technology like Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) that is available even on the Ford Fiesta, and the recently launched Ford Edge,” he said.
Ford has countered with assertions that the facelifted model, to be released in Europe later this year, will score higher. The newer model will have pre-collision assist and lane-keeping assist as standard.
If you already own one, though, you might want to avoid driving into anything solid.
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And hitting crowds wasn’t a consideration in this rating?
“Don’t drive into anything solid.” Good advice.
Solid-No
Pedestrians-?
The crowds may come out better than the car (Uses over used joke)
doesnt really matter since crowds are generally soft, external airbags if you will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0StTHnTKK8
Am I the only one that thinks the requirement for auto braking is complete garbage? Most cars I’ve seen that have it only work up to about 30-40 km/h. Hardly ‘life-saving’.
Not true at all. It is at these sort of speeds you’re most likely to hit a car in stop/start traffic or a pedestrian, not wile doing 70km/h +.
Not to mention that it’s often available only on models with an auto box.
They don’t need safety rating as the only things they hot are people and kerbs which they get an impressive 5*.
They don’t need a safety rating as they only hit people and kerbs which they get an impressive 5*
The crash tests are so unrealistic, it should be wether the car survives a crash into a crowd not into a wall.
Another shining example of American car quality lol.
The car actually gets 4-stars on passenger safety on Euro NCAP. The reason why its two stars is because there isn’t an option to buy extra electronic safety system. That’s it. The car is actually perfectly safe.