Indian Cars Fail In NCAP Crash Tests, Results Show Poor Safety Standards

Indian Cars Fail In NCAP Crash Tests, Results Show Poor Safety Standards

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016BYVAMSHI KRISHNALEAVE A COMMENT


Recently, the Global NCAP crash department has tested Indian cars. The results were shocking. According to the reports of NCAP, the Indian cars have failed the tests kept and it was announced that the Indian cars are out, unfit and unsafe.




Earlier, the International agency had also tested Indian cars and but this time the results were more shocking. The Indian cars tested are Renault Kwid and Honda Mobilio. The results are not at the good news. The results are in such a way that even the manufacturers refused to acknowledge them.

Renault Kwid was earlier tested and scored a zero star rating. So the company went back and made few changes to the car. Though the manufacturers made changes, unfortunately, they haven’t worked. The car tested came with a driver’s airbag and a seatbelt pre-tensioner. Hence, the rating has improved to one star.



Honda Mobilio was even worst. The basic version had scored zero star rating. NCAP in their report says that the Mobilio has “a stable structure”. Honda Company, however, requested Global NCAP to test a version with two airbags to show the “benefits of these safety systems”. The new version was better and scored three-star rating.





Global NCAP Methodology:
The Global NCAP methodology of testing includes buying the base variants of the cars directly from the showroom and ships them to the testing location. Here’s where there is no involvement from the manufacturer.

NCAP informs the manufacturers of the future tests and invites them to check the results. Global NCAP has been at the forefront of the promoting road safety around the world. Crash tests for Indian cars are supposed to become mandatory in 2017.

http://allindiaroundup.com/news/indian-cars-fail-crash-test/

I bet their biggest export destination is Mexico and Central/South America.

Hey @Anubis check out the article...sound familiar?

Hamartia Antidote said:

I bet their biggest export destination is Mexico and Central/South America.

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The cars exported by India meet the safety standards of the countries that import them. This includes exports to Europe and Japan.

For Indian domestic production, domestic legislation will have to improve. We talked about this in a previous thread.

This is the 2017 legislation mentioned in this OP.

https://defence.pk/threads/mexico-i...automobile-exports.448012/page-2#post-8661923

https://defence.pk/threads/mexico-i...automobile-exports.448012/page-3#post-8662369

https://defence.pk/threads/mexico-i...automobile-exports.448012/page-6#post-8674584

Nilgiri said:

The cars exported by India meet the safety standards of the countries that import them. This includes exports to Europe and Japan.

For Indian domestic production, domestic legislation will have to improve. We talked about this in a previous thread.

This is the 2017 legislation mentioned in this OP.

https://defence.pk/threads/mexico-is-top-destination-for-india’s-automobile-exports.448012/page-2#post-8661923

https://defence.pk/threads/mexico-is-top-destination-for-india’s-automobile-exports.448012/page-3#post-8662369

https://defence.pk/threads/mexico-is-top-destination-for-india’s-automobile-exports.448012/page-6#post-8674584

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i have no doubt that they do. But I have a feeling Mexico/South America do not have standards as strict as US/Canada. So to be competitive in their markets they would need a way to sell cars not built to US/Canadian standards, So instead of opening an alternative assembly line which would make lower crash tolerant cars (and generate tons of bad press) they decided to import them.

Hamartia Antidote said:

But I have a feeling Mexico/South America do not have standards as strict as US/Canada.

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They are based on Euro NCAP, maybe not as great as them....but nonetheless its a decent standard in theory:

http://www.latinncap.com/en/faq

Not sure how it exactly compares to the rest of North America....though you are probably right.

Hamartia Antidote said:

So to be competitive in their markets they would need a way to sell cars not built to US/Canadian standards, So instead of opening an alternative assembly line which would make lower crash tolerant cars (and generate tons of bad press) they decided to import them.

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Basically you are right. Logistically it makes most sense for say Mexico to make full use of NAFTA and have their factories fully geared towards exports to the US/Canada automobile-wise.....while at the same time importing any gaps in their own local demand with cars more optimised to their own local standards rather than have two or more production and logistics chains etc. VW and others have understood this quite well.