It posted strong results in its adult and
child occupant assessments, but garnered more average results where pedestrian protection and safety assistance technology were concerned.
Not exact matches
Auris also joins the class leaders in small family cars with four - stars for
child occupant protection and three - stars in the relatively new
assessment for pedestrian safety.
The Mercedes GLA scored the full five stars in its Euro NCAP safety
assessments, with an excellent 96 % adult
occupant score and an 88 %
child occupant score.
Euro NCAP awarded the car the full five stars in its crash tests in 2014, and the Sorento achieved high scores in all four areas of the
assessment: 90 per cent for adult
occupant protection, 83 per cent for
child occupant protection, 67 per cent for pedestrian protection and 71 per cent in the safety assist section.
In this scenario, the rating achieved by the Alfa Giulietta (97 % Adult
Occupant, 85 %
Child Occupant, 63 % Pedestrian Protection and 86 % Safety Assist) means that the car will also have a five - star rating in 2012 when the
assessment system will have reached maximum severity.
The rating is even more significant considering that since 2009, EuroNCAP has adopted new judgment criteria composed of four areas of accident
assessment, namely Adult
Occupant,
Child Occupant, Pedestrian Protection and a new area: Safety Assist.
Finally, top scorers VW Beetle and Subaru XV achieved impressive results in
child occupant protection, both reaching 90 %, which is the maximum score Euro NCAP has yet given for this
assessment.
From 2009, Euro NCAP's new overall rating covers Adult
Occupant Protection,
Child Occupant Protection, Pedestrian Protection and a new area of
assessment: Safety Assist.