The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) has released its latest round of safety ratings, which saw the new Suzuki Swift receive a three-star rating. First revealed as a concept last October, which was soon followed by the production version in December the same year, the Swift underwent a radical design overhaul and went on sale in Europe earlier this year.
Referring to Euro NCAP’s report, the Swift managed to score 67% in the adult occupant protection category, with marginal to poor being assigned to some aspects of its performance. Meanwhile, child occupant protection was rated at 65%, brought down by weak neck protection when a dummy representing a six-year-old child was used as well as the lack of a child presence detection system.
The Swift fared better in the vulnerable road users category with a score of 76%, providing good or adequate protection for the head of a struck pedestrian or cyclist. The autonomous emergency braking (AEB) system also responded adequately to pedestrians and was marked as ‘good’ to cyclists. However, the hatchback offers no protection against “dooring,” where a car door is suddenly opened in the path of a cyclist approaching from behind.
As for the safety assist category, the Swift scored 62% and meets legislation requirements by having AEB, an emergency lane-keeping system, a speed limiter and driver fatigue detection. Euro NCAP did point out that the model “fulfilled this obligation but did little more,” as further systems like rear occupant detection and limited driver status monitoring (driver fatigue only) limited its maximum score in this category.
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nowadays most cars can get 5 stars…
The keyword message here is “The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) has released its latest round of safety ratings, which saw the new Suzuki Swift receive a three-star rating.”
As we know, Euro NCAP rules are more stringent than our ASEAN NCAP and all the cars sold in Malaysia are tested based on the specs provided, probably most of them will get the same score or at most 4 star.
A lot of car models meant for ASEAN region would bungkus as well if go for European NCAP test.
I dont think need to bungkus lah.
It already becomes a manageable metal cube, can ship back in a medium size crate
Malaysia must have higher NCAP standard, the existing standard is too low, pity for the Malaysian peoples
Kesian jap cars…..but Malaysians always park resale value as top priority over safety. It’s ok….Crash and Die, goto hell get rich from hell bank note.
You know the questions to an exam and you still scored a C. That’s what Suzuki has done here.