The Range Rover Velar has been awarded a five-star crash protection rating from safety body Euro NCAP, ranking it among the safest SUVs on the market today.
Scoring 93% for adult occupant protection, 85% for child occupant protection, 74% for pedestrian protection and 72% for assistance systems, the Velar beats its Land Rover stablemate, the Land Rover Discovery, in overall score.
In its segment, however, it’s topped by the Alfa Romeo Stelvio, which scored 97% for adult occupant protection and 84% in child occupant protection, but the Velar beats the Italian car in the pedestrian and assistance categories by three and 12 percentage points respectively.
Its adult and child occupant protection scores match those of the Audi Q5 but beats the latter's 73% pedestrian protection and 58% assistance system scores. The Velar even beats the Volvo XC90’s 72% pedestrian protection score - the XC90 famously being the safest car Euro NCAP has ever tested.
The Velar scored five stars across all variants; Euro NCAP recently introduced a two-tier score system, with one score for cars in their standard form and another for the same car with optional safety equipment fitted.
Jaguar Land Rover’s UK managing director, Jeremy Hicks, said: “For Velar customers, only the best is good enough and we are delighted the fourth Range Rover has been awarded five-star safety credentials. This, combined with excellent residual values and stunning design, really set Velar out as a car that appeals to the heart and the head."
Read more:
Range Rover Velar - prices, specs and interior
Range Rover Velar UK 2017 review
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For 70K I would expect not
For 70K I would expect not only to protect me well in an accident but give me a BJ and order a pizza!
The Apprentice wrote:
Is that on the options list?
supermanuel wrote:
Yes it is!
The base model requires the owner to do it themselves, in other words being a Wan...
So it should gets a 5 star
So it should gets a 5 star rating, there can be no excuse these days for any new car not acheiving a 5 star Euro NCAP rating, it should be the least we can expect.
Bob Cholmondeley wrote:
Quite right, Bob. And with a dictionary and a spell checker, there's no excuse for incorrect spelling either. It's the least we should expect. But sometimes it's difficult to achieve.
pauld101 wrote:
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The Fiat 500 has 5 stars and
Roll over safety
How safe is it during a roll over accident?
Roll over?
I don't think that's tested, maybe to many variables, difficult to test etc