Euro NCAP releases the latest round of crash test results.
What's the news?
The latest Euro NCAP crash safety test results are out and it's big celebration time for Nissan and Mercedes-Benz, both of whom scored the maximum five stars - and slightly more muted party time for Citroen, which got a four-star mark for the C4 Cactus.
That's actually not too disappointing a mark for Citroen - NCAP has made its test much more stringent lately and getting a five-star score is that much harder. The Cactus would have walked a maximum score under the old system, so you can be pretty reassured it's a safe vehicle.
Clearly also very safe are the Mercedes V-Class and Nissan X-Trail. Perhaps the X-Trail's score was a predictable one; after all, the Renault-Nissan Alliance isn't in the habit of building unsafe clunkers, but it's still some achievement, especially the good marks in the pedestrian impact test for such a big 4x4. The Mercedes' marks are also hugely impressive. Don't forget that the V-Class is basically a van underneath and yet it's capable of providing the sort of impact protection to passengers both big and little that you'd expect from an S-Class.
Anything else?
NCAP was particularly impressed by the V-Class' collision prevention assistant, not least because such things are so uncommon in the Family Vans segment that NCAP doesn't normally include them in the test.
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