Euro NCAP Crash Test of Volvo V60

[ChatsV60]

YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIuPI1k_kVU

how many cars do they use?

[Haldex]

Only the side pole crash managed to break the windshield! All SPAs are rock solid!

[gaby]

Another 5 star Volvo! But not all brands are dedicated to safety.
Shamefully, the Jeep Wrangler recently received only one EuroNcap star!!!
https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/jeep/wrangler/34192

[roundyuk]

Don’t watch the Punto and Panda 😳

[gaby]

Originally Posted by roundyuk

Don’t watch the Punto and Panda 😳

Zero stars, unbelievable!
Should such cars still be allowed on the road?

[Haldex]

Originally Posted by gaby

Another 5 star Volvo! But not all brands are dedicated to safety.
Shamefully, the Jeep Wrangler recently received only one EuroNcap star!!!
https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/jeep/wrangler/34192

This is truly a miserable result.. Dacia Duster is 5 times cheaper, half the size and weight of the Wrangler- yet it’s a Volvo compared to this family coffin..

[jmot]

amazing lease deals on new v60... seriously thinking about one as a 2nd car next year.... even tho i bitch and moan about volvo and shoddy software, build etc etc

[Quacker]

Originally Posted by gaby

Zero stars, unbelievable!
Should such cars still be allowed on the road?

I think that the Panda had four stars in a previous test. It is no more dangerous now than it was then but the testing standards and parameters have changed, but most of all they expect almost ridiculous levels of autonomous crash mitigation technology, the same as fitted to Volvo, on even the cheapest of cars. Cheap and this technology are almost incompatible.

As you probably know, it is currently compulsory for new cars to be fitted with airbags and abs and tyre pressure monitoring. Very very soon are to be added autonomous emergency braking and emergency assistance communication systems. The reason for including the latter isn't what it may seem at first glance.

The reason is actually so that sat-nav and the system that broadcasts telemetry becomes standard by the time 75%+ of all new cars sold are electric. At that point the loss of revenue from lost annual road tax really hurts the economy and it has to be replaced and added somehow to electric cars. They will be taxed per mile and eventually automatically fined for exceeding speed limits and so on. Big expensive brother in your car.

The point maybe further not realised is that this point is closer than you think. Electric car sales are slowly taking off and will increase exponentially over the next few years. I reckon that by 2025, some seven years away or less, that 75%+ threshold will have been punched through. By 2022 or so we should see the price of oil drop like a stone due to overproduction and that will be the end of oil as the dominant road fuel.

[Haldex]

Off topic, but EVs in UK are at 1.8%. That’s ONE POINT EIGHT. 2018 sales are at record-high 8%. And those numbers include oil-burning PHEVs- which overwhelmingly outnumber pure EVs. Most other EU countries (Island and Norwey excluded..) these numbers are MUCH lower. Same applies for most of the world. I think if they banned ICE car production today your numbers would still be science fiction..

[gaby]

The EuroNcap star system is a relative evaluation system where the best results are awarded 5 stars.
When new cars get safer, the existing ones will get less stars. This explains why the Panda may have
earned more stars before but less now since it has relatively become less safe compared to the best.
This is what I expect from a safety evaluation system. And since safety features such as autonomous
crash mitigation are available, the number of stars awarded should, as they do, take the presence or
absence of such features into account.
I don't know if EuroNcap expects every car to have such advanced safety features.