EuroNCAP

The European New Because Assessment Program (Euro NCAP) is an independent international agency created in 1997. It has as a principal function to test the Sécurité passivates Véhicule S, in particular Automobile S.

Organization

It joins together five European administrations (German, British, French, Dutch and Swedish), the European Union, various consumers' associations, of the cars clubs as well as the foundation of the TRUSTED.

For these tests, EuroNCAP calls in particular upon the Utac.

Tests of EuroNCAP

In order to ensure a great reliability these tests, Euro NCAP carried them out on vehicles acquired anonymously near the manufacturers. In this way, the evaluation was made on a product similar so that the consumer will buy and not product given by the manufacturer who could be advantageously improved. Certain new vehicles were tested on vehicles given by the manufacturer before their marketings.

Each vehicle tested sudden:

a frontal shock on a deformable barrier to 64 km/h;
a side shock on a deformable mobile barrier at a speed of 50 km/h;
a side shock against a post of 25,4 cm width carried out on the level of the conducting seat to 29 km/h;
a pedestrian shock on two mannequins representing an adult and a child.

With resulting from the wounds of the occupants of the vehicle, i.e. biomechanical mannequins (of an unit value of 100.000 €) two adults, a child of 1 year 1/2 and another 3 years, a number of points is allotted. It varies between 0 and 37 points to decree from 0 to 5 stars. The frontal shock makes it possible to obtain up to 16 points, 16 points for the side shock, 2 points for the “shock of the post” plus 3 points no-claims bonus according to the number of alarms of Safety belt not buckled. In March 2000, because of the constant evolution of the points obtained by the vehicles, it was decided to create a fifth star for the vehicles which obtain between 32,5 and 34 points. The first vehicle to have obtained 5 stars was the Renault Laguna II in 2001. Since, about thirty vehicles obtained this maximum note.
The highest note ever allotted (36/37) was it with the restylée Citroen C5 and with the Mercedes-Benz Classe has (left in 2004). In 2007, the Nissan Qashqai obtains the maximum note (37/37), while the Nouvelle FIAT 500 obtains the best score of the category of the microcars (35/37).

A new scale including the introduction of a shock by the back ready to evaluate the risk of whiplash injury will be adopted at the end of 2007, increasing the number of stars being used to classify the models from five to six.

See too

Road safety

External bonds

Official site

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