Euro NCAP has hit the wall four new models. The electric Skoda Enyaq and Volkswagen ID4 return home with the maximum achievable score of five stars. Dacia has less attractive scores to show at home.
Euro NCAP, the European division of the Global NCAP safety institute, has released the test results of four new models. The electric Skoda Enyaq iV has managed to achieve the maximum achievable score of five stars. Volkswagen’s electric cousin, the ID4, also returns home with five NCAP stars.
Skoda Enyaq iV
The Skoda Enyaq iV scores 94 percent of the points in terms of ‘adult occupant safety’. Safety for children in the back is rated at 89 percent. In terms of pedestrian safety, the Skoda Enyaq iV takes 71 percent of the points. According to NCAP, it is also good for some safety systems. Skoda’s electric SUV achieves a respectable score of 82 percent here. Logically, the scores of the technically strong electric Volkswagen ID4 related to the Enyaq iV are virtually the same. The SUV achieves 93 percent of the achievable points under the heading ‘adult occupant safety’. The areas of rear child safety, pedestrian safety and safety systems are assessed successively with 89, 76 and 85 percent of the achievable points.
Badly damaged Volkswagen ID4
There is less good news for Dacia. Both the new Sandero Stepway and the new Logan not available in the Netherlands both score two of the five NCAP stars. The two cars, which are technically identical in principle, score 70 percent of the achievable points under the heading ‘safety for adult occupants’. Child safety in the rear is rated with a respectable 72 percent of achievable points. Romanians are doing less well when it comes to pedestrian safety. The pair only won 41 percent of the points here, partly because the emergency braking system only brakes for cars and overlooks pedestrians and cyclists. The Sandero Stepway and Logan achieved a score of 42 percent in terms of safety systems. One factor here is that the two cars do not have a lane assistant.
Dacia Sandero Stepway banging
Don’t immediately think that the Sandero and Logan are unsafe. The cars more than pass the crash tests. Euro NCAP indicates that without the ‘shortcomings’ in terms of security systems, the two Dacias would score a decent four NCAP stars. Euro NCAP also weighs safety systems heavily in its assessment, which in the case of the two Dacias, as they are still relatively down-to-earth no-nonsense models, weighs on the total NCAP score. “The safety of cars is developing rapidly. The biggest steps are now being made in the field of high-tech safety systems to prevent accidents. Dacia is sticking to its market segment, but the score of 2 stars shows little ambition,” says Michiel van. Ratingen, Euro NCAP’s top executive in a cover letter.