Commercial safety system tests (Euro NCAP)
While in the field of passenger cars we tend to give a higher weight to aspects such as driving comfort, space, performance, quality of materials and also safety, in the world of commercial vehicles the view is much more purposeful.
These cars are often evaluated according to their loading capacity, fuel consumption and maintenance costs, the other aspects are given much less attention, also from the customers and as a result - from the manufacturers.
However, it is important to remember that even if this issue is not at the top of their requirements - in the end these vehicles drive around us on the roads, they are bulky, heavy and less easy to control in emergencies, and the drivers register a higher number of trips per year than private car drivers.
And precisely they receive from the boss a car that is not safe enough.
Only three of the commercial vehicles managed to get a score of over 50% (Photo: Euro NCAP)
The European safety organization, Euroencap, which performs crash tests and tests active safety systems for light commercial vehicles as well (starting in 2021), tested 20 commercial vehicles, some of which are twins and share platforms and assemblies to test their advanced safety systems.
The results are far from satisfactory.
The score is weighted by sections such as vehicle detection (30%), pedestrians (10%), cyclists (10%), lane keeping (20%), speed warning (15%) and driver monitoring (15%).
According to the scoring results they received, the vehicles are divided into 5 scoring categories.
When below 20% the vehicle is defined as "not recommended", above 20% bronze, above 40% silver, above 60% gold and instruments with a score above 80% platinum.
As is customary in the commercial worlds, among vehicles there are quite a few "twins" marketed in different markets under different names, but these sometimes receive different grades due to the composition of the safety systems in each of them.
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The performance of the lane keeping system makes up 20% of the final score (Photo: Euro NCAP)
Not recommended
Commercial vehicles that failed to reach the minimum threshold of 20%:
Nissan Interstar (twin with the Renault Master sold in Israel) - 18%
Bronze score
The following vehicles received the one score before "not recommended" according to their safety system scores.
Citroen Jumper (also called Relay) - 20%
Opel Mobano (equivalent to the Fiat Ducato sold here) - 22%
Peugeot Boxer - 22%
Toyota Prius - 23%
Citroen Jumpy (also called Dispatch) - 24%
Renault Master - 25%
Opel Vivaro (equivalent to Citroen Jumpy sold in Israel) - 30%
Peugeot Expert (equivalent to Jumpy) - 31%
Ivoco Daily - 35%
Ford Transit and Fiat Ducato: the two commercial vehicles that were eligible for a gold rating (Photo: Euro NCAP)
Silver score
for the commercials that received a score higher than 40%
Volkswagen Crafter - 40%
Renault Trafic - 40%
Nissan Prima-Star (equivalent to Renault Trafic) - 40%
Volkswagen Transporter - 43%
Mercedes Vito - 48%
Mercedes Sprinter - 52%
Gold score
for commercials that received a score higher than 60%
Ford Transit - 60%
Fiat Ducato - 63%
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