Testing Reveals Five Star Crash Ratings Unique To US and Russia

Some of the best-selling cars in Latin America and the Caribbean provide extremely poor crash protection, new safety tests show.

The testing by the Latin American New Car Assessment Program, known as Latin NCAP, represents the first comprehensive crash-test program for Latin America, safety experts say. Latin NCAP is an initiative of safety organizations including the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile and the FIA Foundation and is similar to NCAP programs that promote highway safety in Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, the United States and Europe.





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CarCrazedinCali - 12/8/2011 4:37:34 PM

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Not that surprised, after all they were still producing and selling POS VWs that were built in the 60s and 70s up until recently, NUTS! Glad I live in the US.

Joe_Limon - 12/8/2011 6:32:32 PM

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The USA just hit the lowest road fatality rate since 1949, considering there were several times fewer vehicles on the road back then I think we are over doing the safety thing...

mini22 - 12/9/2011 10:16:03 AM

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Good news is that this forces all carmakers to improve as this becomes a marketing tool for sales. IE-the Fiat 500 only got a 3 star rating recently. You can bet that next yrs car will do better simply because Fiat has little choice here.