C-NCAP 5 stars vehicles in 2009

• Source: Global Times
• [16:37 January 13 2010]
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C-NCAP is the abbreviation Chinese New Car Assessment Programme.

It aims at establishing high standard, fair and impartial methods for assessing vehicle safety performance under impact, so as to promote the development of vehicle technologies in pursuit of a higher concept for safety.

The intention of the programme is to provide consumers with safety information concerning the newly marketed vehicles, encourage the manufacturers to attach higher importance to safety standards, improve the safety performance and technical standards of the vehicles while giving publicity by means of the assessment process to the vehicles that excel in occupant protection.

The C-NCAP tests consist of the following three items:
1) Frontal impact test against rigid barrier with 100 percent overlapping
2) Frontal impact test against deformable barrier with 40 percent overlapping
3) Side impact test against mobile deformable barrier

Rating of assessment results
A maximum score of 51 points in C-NCAP is available.

Small passenger vehicles

Geely Panda grades: 45.3