Honda Accord Euro receives five-star EuroNCAP rating – again!
March 2, 2009 by Matt Brogan
With the EuroNCAP rating system having recently undergone a review, Honda has had its Accord Euro model re-assessed to make certain the five-star vehicle still achieves the same result – with resounding success.
The new rating scheme uses a weighted score, combining many aspects of a car’s safety performance: adult (50 percent), child (20 percent) and pedestrian (20 percent) protection assessment results with the availability of safety assistance devices (10 percent).
A minimum score of 70 percent overall is necessary to achieve a five-star rating. To qualify for inclusion, the safety assistance device Electronic Stability Program (Vehicle Stability Assistance for Honda) must be fitted, as standard across 85 per cent of the manufacturer’s 2009 model range.
Under the new system, the Honda Accord Euro has scored a maximum possible five-star rating with an overall weighted score of 78 percent.
Previously the Accord Euro scored five-stars for adult occupant safety, four-stars for child occupant safety rating and a three-star pedestrian protection score.
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Gut feeling, car companies are now designing cars to pass the 5-star test, the real safest and most practical situation as a second consideration.
Anyway, every new car released is making it 5-star, time to raise the bar A LOT higher.
Forget 6 star, lets skip that and make the premium rating a 7-star.Crash impact of say 75kmh
Cheers
F-0
Can anyone tell me if there is a car that has achieved
5 stars in all 3 categories? – Passenger, Child and Pedestrian?
Ta
JJ
JJ: No car has ever achieved 5 stars for child and pedestrian. The new system, as explained in the opening paragraph, gives weighted scores for each category, meaning that 3 stars for child and 3 stars for pedestrian could still result in an overall 5 star rating if the points score for passenger was high enough.
I think when cars achieve 5+ stars in all criteria will be the day science discovers how force-fields work…
And when cars turn into time machines and skip the time space continuum to avoid collisions.
You mean in effect travel through hyper space…