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Euro NCAP (New Car Assessment Programme) has carried out new crash tests on the Chevrolet Kalos, Nissan Note, Toyota RAV4 and Land Rover Discovery III.
The Note, RAV4 and Discovery were all awarded four stars for overall occupant protection - rather disappointing results for brand-new vehicles - and the Kalos scored a poor three stars, though this is better than the two-star result achieved by the closely-related Aveo earlier this year.
Two specific faults were also highlighted in the NCAP tests. During the side impact tests, one of the Isofix child seat mounting points in the Nissan Note broke: Nissan has said that this was a problem in an early batch of vehicles that has now been fixed and it is to issue a recall for Notes already sold with this problem.
The airbags in the Toyota RAV4 also fired late in the frontal crash test, due to a detached sensor cable. Toyota has modified all cars since sold with a rerouted wiring harness and new airbag control unit, though it is not going to recall the vehicles already sold with the faulty cables.
Chairman of Euro NCA Claes Tingvall said: 'Both of these cars have achieved a four-star rating. However, as new cars, we might have expected them to perform even better. It is worrying that Euro NCAP's tests revealed potential problems in cars which were already in production and on sale to the public. Nissan are to be congratulated for modifying cars already sold. We believe that all customers should expect to get their cars modified when such weaknesses have been discovered."
The RAV4 scored well in the pedestrian protection tests, however, achieving three stars. The Land Rover Discovery scored just one star in this test; the Note and Kalos scored two.
http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=14972
The Note, RAV4 and Discovery were all awarded four stars for overall occupant protection - rather disappointing results for brand-new vehicles - and the Kalos scored a poor three stars, though this is better than the two-star result achieved by the closely-related Aveo earlier this year.
Two specific faults were also highlighted in the NCAP tests. During the side impact tests, one of the Isofix child seat mounting points in the Nissan Note broke: Nissan has said that this was a problem in an early batch of vehicles that has now been fixed and it is to issue a recall for Notes already sold with this problem.
The airbags in the Toyota RAV4 also fired late in the frontal crash test, due to a detached sensor cable. Toyota has modified all cars since sold with a rerouted wiring harness and new airbag control unit, though it is not going to recall the vehicles already sold with the faulty cables.
Chairman of Euro NCA Claes Tingvall said: 'Both of these cars have achieved a four-star rating. However, as new cars, we might have expected them to perform even better. It is worrying that Euro NCAP's tests revealed potential problems in cars which were already in production and on sale to the public. Nissan are to be congratulated for modifying cars already sold. We believe that all customers should expect to get their cars modified when such weaknesses have been discovered."
The RAV4 scored well in the pedestrian protection tests, however, achieving three stars. The Land Rover Discovery scored just one star in this test; the Note and Kalos scored two.
http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=14972
