A pair of Mini fashions and a European household SUV are the most recent automobiles to be awarded prime marks in the latest spherical of crash security testing.
The second-generation Skoda Kodiaq that has simply gone on sale in Australia was awarded the utmost five-star score from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).
The seven-seat family SUV scored constantly properly throughout the 4 predominant evaluation classes, recording 89 per cent for Grownup Occupant Safety, 87 per cent for Baby Occupant Safety, 82 per cent for Susceptible Street Consumer Safety and 81 per cent for Security Help.
ANCAP says the Kodiaq’s score applies to all mannequin grades.
The Kodiaq comes with an in depth customary security record throughout variants, together with auto emergency braking (AEB) with car-to-car, weak street consumer, junction and crossing, backover and head-on performance, a lane help system with lane preserve help, lane departure warning and emergency lane holding and a complicated velocity help system.
ANCAP warned, nonetheless, the Kodiaq lacks prime tether anchorage factors for the third row and subsequently doesn’t suggest putting in baby restraints within the rear seating row.
The Kodiaq is a big seven-seat SUV that competes with the likes of the Kia Sorento, Hyundai Santa Fe, Mazda CX-80 and Toyota Kluger.
Mini scored two five-star scores from ANCAP, one for the electrical model of the Mini Cooper three-door hatch and the opposite for the Countryman SUV.
The Countryman went on sale final 12 months Down Below and the highest score covers petrol and electrical grades of the BMW X1 cousin.
The small SUV additionally scored constantly, with 83 per cent for Grownup Occupant Safety, 86 per cent for Baby Occupant Safety, 81 per cent for Susceptible Street Consumer Safety and 83 per cent for Security Help.
Mini’s new-generation electrical Cooper hatch additionally scored extremely for Grownup Occupant Safety (89 per cent), Baby Occupant Safety (83 per cent) and Security Help (83 per cent), however misplaced some factors for Susceptible Street Consumer Safety (77 per cent).
The petrol model of the brand new Mini Cooper is at the moment unrated. That mannequin is constructed on a closely revised model of the previous-gen Cooper’s BMW Group ‘UKL’ platform, whereas the electrical Cooper rides on a bespoke platform developed by BMW and Chinese language big GWM.
