Chery Tiggo 7 Pro earns five-star ANCAP safety rating

The 2024 Chery Tiggo 7 Pro mid-size SUV has earned a five-star safety rating from the Australasian New-Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).

The Tiggo 7 Pro is the second model from Chery – after the smaller Omoda 5 – to receive top marks in ANCAP testing since the Chinese car maker returned to Australia last year.

It was tested to the latest, most stringent crash-test criteria introduced at the start of this year, and in force until 2025.

The Chery SUV received scores of 88 per cent for Adult Occupant Protection, 87 per cent for Child Occupant Protection, 72 per cent for Vulnerable Road User Protection, and 86 per cent for Safety Assist crash-avoidance technology.

The Vulnerable Road User Protection score – which assesses how well the vehicle protects pedestrians and cyclists in a crash, and if it can prevent collisions with them, as well as motorcyclists – is just 2 percentage points above the minimum required for five stars (70 per cent).

As the overall ANCAP star rating is determined by a vehicle's lowest-performing category, so if the Tiggo 7 Pro was awarded 69 per cent in this category, it would have received a four-star overall rating.

ANCAP has highlighted "good" crash protection for adults and children, however it recorded "weak" scores for the driver's chest in the frontal offset and side-impact pole crash tests, and lost marks for protection of a pedestrian's head and pelvis in a collision.

The advanced safety systems recorded "good" performance, with full marks given to the lane-keep assist system when preventing a collision with a car in an adjacent lane.

However it missed out on points for the effectiveness of its forward-facing autonomous emergency braking (AEB) and lane-keep assist systems in preventing a collision with a motorcycle, as well as the rear AEB tech's ability to detect pedestrians.

Chery provided data to show the vehicle's doors would "remain functional for the minimum time period required", and provided a "safety escape hammer to allow egress via the windows."

ANCAP says "from 2023 manufacturers are awarded points for door and window opening functionality when submerged in water, with uninterrupted operation of windows or the provision of a ‘break glass’ safety device eligible for scoring.

"Of the nine vehicles rated by ANCAP this year, three have demonstrated window opening performance, with the Tiggo 7 Pro the first model to offer a safety escape hammer to assist with window exit."

More details on the 2024 Chery Tiggo 7 Pro's ANCAP rating are available at this link.