1. Introduction
NCAP New Car Assessment Program is the English acronym, that new car crash tests. This is the best test to test the safety of the car. The United States, Europe and Japan are mature regulations, regular domestic production and imports of new cars head-on collision, side collision safety tests to check the car driver and passenger degree of harm suffered during a crash.
2. Overview
These regulations are recognized as the most stringent, EURO-NCAP test is the implementation of the European Union. Test including a front portion and two side collision, frontal impact speed of 64 km / h, the side impact speed of 50 km / h. Test results by represented by five stars, the higher the better-star crash safety performance of the car.
International brand cars in foreign countries generally have prototypes changes after entering China usually does not involve the body structure, EURO-NCAP result is an authoritative measure of vehicle security. Currently only the China market mainstream compact car, for example, Dongfeng Peugeot 206, Shanghai Volkswagen’s new Polo prototypes have passed the EURO-NCAP test, and achieved good results in 4 stars.