In the safety aspect the Statesman comes with Bosch Electronic Stability Control, traction control, ABS brakes, EBD, BAS and a tyre pressure monitoring system as
standard Front,
side and curtain
airbags come as
standard which is another incentive to improve the Caprice's safety equipment, this also
contributed to the fact that the Caprice's safety rating surpass that off its main rival, the LTD. [14] Development commenced with the largest virtual crash modelling program Holden has ever undertaken.
Both of these cars earned good ratings for driver head protection because of the
standard side airbags, but the marginal performances of their structures
contributed to high forces elsewhere on the driver dummies in both cars and on the rear dummy in the Verona.