The New Car Assessment Programme for Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN NCAP) has released its latest crash test results, and this time it’s the new 2015 Mitsubishi Triton that has gone through the rigmarole of testing. The pick-up truck receives four stars, one star down from its five-star Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) rating.
In the frontal offset crash test, it scored 13.56 points out of a possible 16 in Adult Occupant Protection (AOP), putting the new Triton firmly in the four-star category.
More worryingly, it netted just two stars in Child Occupant Protection (COP) with only 48% compliance, lagging behind other pick-ups like the Chevrolet Colorado (three stars) and Isuzu D-Max (four stars). A UN R95 side impact test yielded a “Pass” rating, securing the Triton’s four-star rating.
Of course, the vehicle that was tested by ASEAN NCAP – which is more representative of the version we get over here – is different from the one procured by ANCAP. The latter has seven airbags (including one for the driver’s knee), stability control and Isofix child seat mounts as standard across the range; ours has none of these features and includes just two airbags.
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Well, Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia, what do you have to say for yourself?
Oops?
Tak apa lah!
Go for second re-test again, just like Proton.
They will say, if Hailat can be best seller with sky high profits and with such low spec, why not do the same?
2 airbags also can get 5 star.really malaysian standard.
Do they test this with crash with Myvi?
Do not see many new ones….I mean only saw once or twice
scoring rating of asean NCAP is not a proper one like euro NCAP which criteria include front collission, front offset, side, rollover, rear end, pedestrian injury, occupant protection & child.
as was apparent in Saga FLX case previously – added second airbag alone able to change its rating from 2 to 3 stars (or something like that).
poor us.
If memory serves, they did more than just add an airbag. They used the same chassis strengthening modifications applied to the version of the Saga sold in Australia.
Less features so that price will not be too high…value of life notwithstanding…all too common here
Poor us…and we get poorly-rated vehicles on our roads…leading to high accident statistics bla bla bla…
Stupid rating. Iriz can get 5 star then this one cannot? Huh.
Iriz with 2 airbags, no traction also will get lower rating lah.
If the iriz equipped with ESC and only 2 airbags, it will still get 5 stars. This is due the rating in ASEANCAP is only based on frontal offset test