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What you"re looking at is the difference between a modern, safe car, and one that even when it was launched, really wasn"t.To celebrate 20 years of Euro NCAP crash tests, Thatcham Research took a current-model Honda Jazz and a 1997 Rover 100, slammed them both into a deformable barrier, and videoed the results for our viewing pleasure. And, you know, to show how much safer cars are now than they were two decades ago. And as you can see, the answer is very". Both cars were slung into a deformable, aluminium barrier at 40mph in the standard Euro NCAP test designed to replicate a head-on collision where only 40 per cent of a car"s front-end makes contact with the barrier.The Jazz did rather well. It"s a five-star car, after all. One of the safest superminis on sale, and with the Rover"s original price adjusted for inflation, they essentially cost the same new, too.
Date written: 2 Feb 2017
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What you"re looking at is the difference between a modern, safe car, and one that even when it was launched, really wasn"t.To celebrate 20 years of Euro NCAP crash tests, Thatcham Research took a current-model Honda Jazz and a 1997 Rover 100, slammed them both into a deformable barrier, and videoed the results for our viewing pleasure. And, you know, to show how much safer cars are now than they were two decades ago. And as you can see, the answer is very". Both cars were slung into a deformable, aluminium barrier at 40mph in the standard Euro NCAP test designed to replicate a head-on collision where only 40 per cent of a car"s front-end makes contact with the barrier.The Jazz did rather well. It"s a five-star car, after all. One of the safest superminis on sale, and with the Rover"s original price adjusted for inflation, they essentially cost the same new, too.
Date written: 2 Feb 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6606
