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Written by Craig Jamieson
It isn"t for the purposes of adolescent glee that Euro NCAP flings perfectly good cars at exceptionally solid objects. And vice versa.Over the past two decades, car-crash fatalities have dropped from around 60,000 a year across Europe to less than 30,000. And those two decades just happen to coincide with the New Car Assessment Programme. Since its inception in 1997, the NCAP star rating has grown to encompass a complex matrix of active and passive safety systems, which, to some of you, is a bridge too far. If you read the comments on our story and on Euro NCAP"s YouTube, the Fiat Panda"s recently acquired zero-star rating doesn"t come off so much as Fiat"s fault as Euro NCAP"s. That got us wondering: how have the tests changed over the years? Why isn"t an old five-star car as safe as a new one? And why did the Panda get a zero-star rating?
Date written: 8 Feb 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14785
It isn"t for the purposes of adolescent glee that Euro NCAP flings perfectly good cars at exceptionally solid objects. And vice versa.Over the past two decades, car-crash fatalities have dropped from around 60,000 a year across Europe to less than 30,000. And those two decades just happen to coincide with the New Car Assessment Programme. Since its inception in 1997, the NCAP star rating has grown to encompass a complex matrix of active and passive safety systems, which, to some of you, is a bridge too far. If you read the comments on our story and on Euro NCAP"s YouTube, the Fiat Panda"s recently acquired zero-star rating doesn"t come off so much as Fiat"s fault as Euro NCAP"s. That got us wondering: how have the tests changed over the years? Why isn"t an old five-star car as safe as a new one? And why did the Panda get a zero-star rating?
Date written: 8 Feb 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14785
