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[Rainer271]

Renault Megane Disappoints in EuroNCAP Crash Test –Musters Only 3 Stars

The recently facelifted Renault Megane is actually an old car that originally went on sale back in 2008. However, while it’s undeniably structurally sound, the most recent batch of EuroNCAP testshave seriously tarnished both its own and the manufacturer’s safety record.
Recently crashed for science, the refreshed Megane was awarded a meager three stars. One star was lost for its lack active crash culling gadgets, while another had to be crossed off because “the system for the rear seats uses text to inform the driver of the status of the rear seatbelts and, as this information was not available in all languages, the system failed EuroNCAP's assessment”.

The official release read on that “with a compliant system, the Megane Hatch would have been rated as four stars overall.”

The Megane wasn’t the only car tested, though, and it wasn’t the only car to receive just three stars; the others that did so too were the MG3 supermini, Citroen C-Elysee and its sister model, the Peugeot 301.

Cars that fared better are the Ford Turneo Connect, which grabbed four stars, and the all-new VW Golf Sportvan – it achieved the maximum rating.

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[Rolf]

Sometimes I think that Euro NCAP is actually going OTT with their judgment on vehicle safety and safety systems when most accidents can actually be avoided by drivers of vehicles if they were given proper training on how to recognize and counter act a possible accident. The extra safety regulations and equipment is actually having a negative impact on vehicle design, added weight for increased body strength and higher complexity of electronic systems for the safety systems actually can cause other safety issues such as increase risk of vehicle fires from failed electric components. Then the pedestrian safety regulations are making the bonnet line increase in height to provide extra space above the engine, this then has to result in the seat height and roof height having to increase in height to compensate for the higher bonnet, so the driver can then actually see the pedestrian hitting the bonnet! This then has a negative affect on aerodynamics of the vehicle as the frontal area is increasing! Most serious accidents occur mainly at high speeds, one easy method to reduce these accidents is lower some speed limits and have more stringent law inforcement for speedsters. Then also teach drivers to handle vehicles at higher speed and learn high speed defensive driving techniques

 

[mini_cooper4]

C'mon @Gianclaudio is getting married...

 

[Gianclaudio]

I don't want to play devil's advocate, as the Megane is an old model first released on 2008, but how on earth can they downgrade two stars by the lack of the latest safety gizmos like lane departure warning or the language for the "buckle your safety belt" message (!!!!)

So a potencially, a car with a weaker cell and less real crash protection may achieve a better rating, because of being equiped with the lastest gizmos?
Euro NCAP should look at how the IIHS is pushing the envelope with new tests like the small overlap, rather than looking at reminder messages or labels.

 

[Giannis]

This new rating system is stupid.

You can't evaluate software is the same category with the shell. A car's safety should only be evaluated based on the shell rigidity and airbags efficiency. I do not trust any of those "clever" software that is supposed to avoid a crash. All software are beatable. And a seatbelt message or noise doesn't make any difference. You can always override it by buying a plastic seatbelt buckle and have it constantly in place, as opposed to actually putting your seatbelt. Stupidity is also unbeatable.