It’s not often that us Malaysians have it good, but that really is the case with the Perodua Ativa. That car comes as standard with six airbags and a range of driver assistance systems such as autonomous emergency braking and lane keeping assist – and hence it gets a five-star ASEAN NCAP safety rating.
Unfortunately, outside of this country (and Japan, of course), the Ativa’s triplets – the Daihatsu Rocky and Toyota Raize – aren’t quite as well equipped. That’s particularly true in Latin America, where the Raize received a disappointing one-star safety rating from Latin NCAP.
The car, made in Indonesia for markets like Mexico, Chile and Uruguay, scored just 41% for adult protection, 71% for child protection, 59% for pedestrian protection and 58% for safety assist systems. That’s not surprising, given that the Raize is only offered with two airbags as standard (up to six are available, but only base models are tested) and no driver assists at all aside from standard stability control.
Notably, despite having dual front airbags, the Raize was struck down in the frontal offset crash test as it provided only marginal protection to the driver’s chest and thighs (contrasting to the Ativa’s ASEAN NCAP test, where the Perodua offered good protection to those areas).
Whiplash protection was also marginal, as was the driver’s chest in the side impact test with a deformable barrier; a side pole test was not conducted due to the lack of side and curtain airbags.
Despite having the bare minimum of safety features, the Raize is not exactly cheap as chips – in Chile, the car starts at 11,990,000 pesos (RM55,400). Contrast this with the Ativa, which starts at RM62,500 while being fitted with a boatload of safety equipment as standard.
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If really wants to improves safety, gives rear disc brake, reinforced stabilizer link bar. Not those 6~7 airbags and then acc, lka useless adas, eco idle.
Ha ha ha
Improve brakes will not help the star rating in crash test.
You will have a new perspective about eco idle when our fuel price is RM5/litle like in Europe.
Even NCAP says ADAS should be standard suddenly a random you in the internet said otherwise. Wow much credentials.
Eco idle is not a safety feature.
I would like to see EURO and NHTSA testing for this car
Doubt it will be possible.The car might become total loss during transport to test facility.
For those who want to know how safe is their Perodua Ativa, welp here is your honest answer
Without Airbags and ADAS, all cars will get 1-2 stars.
Low spec but proven goof chasis.
It should get ADAS and 6 Airbags for Mexico, Chile and Uruguay
The Ativa is better and value for money in comparison
Are the Ativa and Indonesian made Raize structurally the same or not, airbags and ADAS aside?
Same, it’s produced under Toyota by daihatsu
toyota y u do dis
Its just like us 20 years ago to compare to euroncap standards, or US and Japan.
Congratulations! Toyota is all time bestest.
It’s not mass production by Daihatsu, Toyota just change the badges to theirs
Fully agreed by just resale value and tip-top quality consumer satisfaction outweigh this safety shortcomings no big deal for toyota accountant minded car owner
We want to be No.1, so we deserve 1 star.
Build car, People die first
Who in their right mind would want to import cars from our region all the way to Americas that’s like around the world journey and do not make any economic sense.
Well while our trusty Perodua Bezza with 2 airbags managed to score 5 stars ASEAN NCAP back then what a relief?
First MG5 with 0-star ANCAP and now this.
Go watch the crash tests done by EuroNCAP or IIHS, the more recent cars that truly do a really good job at absorbing the impact and protecting the driver and passengers usually won’t fly upwards as much and end up facing almost 90 degrees away from its original direction of travel as the Peroduas and Daihatsus.
What do you expect from econo car? More importantly, ASEAN NCAP good or not? Why result so poor even in frontal collision? Haiya…