BMW Pedestrian Warning with City Brake Activation Wins 2014 Reward from Euro NCAP
10 Dec 2014, 10:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW has placed a lot of its focus on new technology lately and the results are starting to show. Their Pedestrian Warning system with City Brake Activation was just rewarded by the European watchdog...
Audi A3 e-tron Plug-in Gets 5-Star Euro NCAP Rating
10 Dec 2014, 10:56 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Audi A3 e-tron is the first mass production plug-in hybrid from the Ingolstadt automaker, a competitor for the Toyota Prius PHEV, only with a German premium car twist. From the outside, it looks...
Land Rover Discovery Sport Gets Tested by Euro NCAP, Bestowed With 5 Stars
3 Dec 2014, 13:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Underpinned by the LR-MS platform, the all-new compact sport utility vehicle from Land Rover is what the Freelander / LR2 should’ve been from the beginning. Before the first model of the Disco...
Porsche Macan Gets 5-Star Safety Rating from Euro NCAP
3 Dec 2014, 13:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Porsche expects the Macan to be their new bread and butter model as the company hopes to nearly double its sales over the following years. Most of the people paying top dollar/euro for this SUV expe...
Dacia Logan MCV Awarded 3 Stars by the Euro NCAP Over Poor Protection
3 Dec 2014, 11:26 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, the station wagon version of the Logan is like any other Dacia model around - cheap, plasticky and spacious, with a 12-year-old B0 platform and second generat...
Euro NCAP Crash Tested the 2015 Ford Mondeo Wagon, Awards it 5 Stars
3 Dec 2014, 10:46 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / With European deliveries of the Mk V Ford Mondeo just around the corner, the peeps from Euro NCAP decided to butcher a few units of the model in order to find out how safe it is in various crash sce...
New Smart Fortwo and Forfour Receive 4-Star Rating from Euro NCAP
3 Dec 2014, 10:52 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Safety was always one of the main selling points of the old Fortwo. The famous Tridion Safety Cell was subjected to all sorts of crazy tests, including being placed under a full-size Ford Excursion ...
2014 MINI Cooper Gets 4-Star Rating from Euro NCAP
3 Dec 2014, 10:20 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Before MINI’s latest model hit the streets, the early photos of the Mk3 model showed a rather weird bonnet that was far longer than anyone expected. Back then, the Brits claimed that the reaso...
All-New 2015 Volkswagen Passat Receives 5-Star Euro NCAP Rating
3 Dec 2014, 09:49 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen could sell about 300,000 units of the all-new Passat in Europe alone next year, thanks to the new technologies and multitude of engines fitted to the MQB sedan. A few of those cars will b...
BMW 2 Series Active Tourer Gets 5-Star Safety Rating from Euro NCAP
5 Nov 2014, 15:00 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW’s first ever front-wheel drive model - the 2 Series Active Tourer, was just put through the tests by the European safety dog Euro NCAP. The result? Five brilliant stars for the first ever ...
Tesla Model S Crash Tested, Awarded 5-Star Euro NCAP Rating
5 Nov 2014, 12:51 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The best safety rating of any car ever crash tested by the NHTSA has been recently mirrored by the 5-star rating the Euro NCAP gave the luxurious all-electric sedan. Not really a surprising result, ...
New 2015 Skoda Fabia Receives Five-Star Rating from Euro NCAP
5 Nov 2014, 09:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / European independent crash test specialists at Euro NCAP have just released a fresh batch of results for models that are about to or have just hit the market. Among them, the new Skoda Fabia seems t...
New Audi Design Boss Shows Glimpses of "A9 Concept"
5 Nov 2014, 09:13 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Audi is about to change its design language for the better. We don't know for sure if this will influence the Q7, which is months away from making its debut, but we can tell that nothing will b...
Citroen C4 Cactus Crash Tested, Gets 4 Euro NCAP Stars
20 Oct 2014, 15:11 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Similar to what the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety does for the American motorist, Euro NCAP is a European car safety performance assessment programme that's sole target is to find out ...
2014 Nissan X-Trail Receives Five-Star Euro NCAP Rating
1 Oct 2014, 14:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / On the verge of the biggest European car show of the year, Nissan has announced that the all-new X-Trail received a five-star safety rating from the independent safety body Euro NCAP, just like the ...
Citroen C4 Cactus Receives 4-Star Rating from Euro NCAP
1 Oct 2014, 10:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Just as the automotive press is focusing on the upcoming Paris Motor Show this week, the guys at Euro NCAP came out of nowhere with three of their independent crash test results. The most significan...
Mercedes-Benz GLA Receives Maximum Euro NCAP Safety Rating
3 Sep 2014, 09:23 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / European crash safety body Euro NCAP just released a fresh batch of crash test results for no less than eight new cars going on sale in Europe in 2014. Out of the lot, the brand new Mercedes-Benz GL...
All-New Renault Twingo Receives 4-Star Rating from Euro NCAP
3 Sep 2014, 08:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / City cars have always been the Achilles heel of any automaker. They're not that pleasant to drive, feel cheep and come with small profit margins. The way in which they're built also makes ...
Did You Know South Korea Has Its Own NCAP Crash Testers?
13 Aug 2014, 13:39 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Today, we bring you fresh news from the South Korean car crash safety body KNCAP. That's right, they have their own organization mirroring Euro NCAP and conduct frequent tests for the sake of l...
VW Golf Sportsvan Receives 5-Star Euro NCAP Rating
25 Jun 2014, 11:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Euro NCAP has just released the safety rating for the new Volkswagen Golf Sportsvan, a compact MPV that replaces the Golf Plus. Out of the six cars which were recently crash-tested by the safety bod...