Toyota Urban Cruiser Fails Euro NCAP Test, Toyota PR Responds

The higher you rise, the deeper you fall. It is actually a long way down from being number one.

First: "No sir, there is no problem with the accelerator Pedal", a bit later (and some talks to NHTSA): “Sir, we will shrink (what a beautiful description for a technical solution) your pedal and install a copy paste solution from our competition to overrule the unintended acceleration if the brake pedal is applied”.

Now another brilliant move from the copy shop guys: Regarding the Euro NCAP test of the Toyota Urban Cruiser, Dr Michiel van Ratingen, Euro NCAP's secretary general said, "The result from Toyota is disappointing. Consumers should always check when looking to buy new car and not make presumptions about a vehicle's safety performance due to the brand it carries." (1)
Toyota PR department says: “There is a difference of opinion between us and Euro NCAP on a technical matter, namely peak acceleration of the head area in the Pole Side Impact test. Once again, we remain fully convinced that Urban Cruiser is a safe car."

“Technical matter” - oh yeah! Good excuse. Toyota, you still need it a bit harder I believe. Your consumers are still following you to blindly. Lets see how stupid you can act, until they leave your, for a far better competition.

The Euro NCAP released results for some other cars participating were:

BMW X1 – Five stars
Chevrolet Cruze – Five stars
Mercedes-Benz E-Class – Five stars

Quotes: http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/Toyota-Urban-Cruiser/245310/

Now BMW is where it should be always.

As if Toyota needed any more bad news. Thankfully for them this was a European test, so most Americans will never hear the bad news.

Toyotas PR guy's statement, "we remain fully convinced that this is a safe car" what an idiot, after the air bad not deploying, does he think that we are all morons? Sad to see Toyota falling so hard, one thing after another, they are making Chrysler look good now.

Thank god this thing failed. I found it pretty awkward that all the small cars were passing the tests especially the SMART, which, as Fifth Gear proved, can survive a crash while the occupants die... quite a first... a scary first. I'm used to the idea that I get into a big accident, walk away with minor injuries, and worry about whether or not my car has survived.

Hard contact of the head sound like the pole hit the head. In real life this probably means instantaneous death. If you look at the press release, NCAP says that other Toyotas do well (no conspiracy like you claim) but this one failed the test. The Urban Cruiser is a rebadge of the Scion xD which is designed for a market that doesn't have a pole test (but IHHS wants to incorporate it in the future)so it's not unreasonable that Toyota didn't even test for this when making the US version.

As you can see, the Mazda 3 gets a poor side crash score. And if you check IHHS it also makes exceptions for equipment and tells you which car was tested.

The biggest problem is with Toyota's people going out of their way to discredit an organization when it performs poorly. They even tried similar tactics with NHTSA, but that didn't work too well.

Get off the Toyota crack, seriously. Whenever there is bad news regarding Toyota you and David999 are the first ones to defend it with your fairy tales and make-believe-world stories.

Honda is the safest auto company, Toyota has never been better than Honda.

The Yaris and Scion xD aren't identical, they have a different structure. If you look at the Yaris pole test photo, you can see that the curtain air bag created a cushion to protect the head from the pole. In the Urban Cruiser that didn't happen. Either the structure collapsed too rapidly or the airbag didn't inflate well enough, or a combination of both.

And who says that previous Toyotas dominated the test scores and somehow Euro NCAP felt "scared" and had to protect domestic (which country is that?) car industry? Toyota has done about equal to the competition over the years.

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