Earlier this week it was announced that Maruti-Suzuki went through the ice in a crash test of the S-Presso. Competitor Tata uses that to extol his own cars to Suzuki with a spicy joke.
The Suzuki S-Presso, intended for the Indian market, can get hands on in terms of creativity of the naming, but in terms of safety it is apparently less well thought out. Global NCAP fired an S-Presso at the test wall and decided no star was deserved. There was so much force on the neck of the co-driver and the chest of both front occupants during the impact that NCAP was anything but happy about it. “Other Indian manufacturers such as Mahindra and Tata offer much better features and even achieve five stars. It is time for Maruti Suzuki to take care of the safety of its customers,” concluded NCAP.
Tata is only too happy to emphasize that Tata is in better shape. In a tweet, the company says: “Driving is only fun if it is also safe.” In doing so, it praises its own Tiago (photo 3) with the NCAP stamp ‘Safest in its segment’. Anyone who thought it would stop there is wrong. It is clear that Tata is referring to the competitor’s crash test. The picture above of a broken coffee mug from which coffee beans are falling, clearly targets the S-Presso. “We don’t break down that easily,” Tata adds.