I appreciate the tests are becoming tougher.. and judged in a diffetent way.
But the GP.. then the Panda
Far from great.!!
But the GP.. then the Panda
Far from great.!!
Personally, I don't hold the rating in much importance these days. A car can offer good impact protection, yet get a very low star rating purely because it doesn't have any electronic nannies fitted as standard. If I was feeling particularly cynical, I'd say that with most cars doing well in the crash test, they felt the need to start adding all these other aspects a few years ago in order to justify their continued existence...
When looking at the details, I don't get what has suddenly changed in the offset test? When it was 1st tested, they scored it very highly, yet now they're saying its crash protection is poor?! [emoji52]
So Fiat have made their own issue by underinvesting in the range, be interesting to watch the 500 fail miserably as well shortly, see if they spend money on that.
If I remember correctly the offset is bigger now, so a smaller portion of the car takes the impact, this is meant to simulate having swerved away from the accident but failed. If you see something coming you don't tend to steer at it to get a nice even contact.
When did they change that, out of interest?
Wise people! We are very materialistic in the UK.In Italy most people keep their fiats for 10 or 20 years the Italians don't value a new reg on the drive every couple of years like the UK.
Wise people! We are very materialistic in the UK.
In Italy most people keep their fiats for 10 or 20 years the Italians don't value a new reg on the drive every couple of years like the UK.
That doesn't change the fact that we're very materialistic here, and not just when it comes to cars.
And yet there are old cars everywhere in italy