AA car-safety report is misleading: Hyundai and Suzuki

In partnership with the AA, the Global NCAP #SaferCarsForAfrica programme has conducted crash tests on a number of vehicles sold locally, mostly in the budget category. Picture: SUPPLIED

Hyundai, which had its Atos and Grand i10 listed in the Moderate category, says one of the factors the cars were scored on was the number of stars they received in the Global NCAP crash test. If a car was rated three stars out of five, it would get 15 points towards its total score on the AA’s sheet, and if it scored one out of five stars, it would score five points.

Only five of the 27 cars listed in the report had undergone a crash test: the Toyota Etios Hatch 1.5 Xi, Honda Amaze 1.2 Trend, Suzuki Ignis, Kia Picanto 1.0 Start and Datsun Go+. “If not, you rely on an unknown factor — how many stars a car would have scored in the test — to calculate a definite figure which determines the safety level of a vehicle.”

However the AA’s Layton Beard stood by the testing methodology, saying the ELVS Report notes that there are limitations in the desktop research and the only definitive test of a car’s safety is a crash test.

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