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Citroen truly got it right when building a safe car.
Recently we have seem some upsetting crashes involving DS3club cars, with passengers walking away from some horrific damage to the cars.
For the benefit of current owners and the guidance for potential new owners I thought I would collate the safety ratings:
Frontal Impact takes place at 64 Km/h, 40% of the width of the car striking a deformable barrier. In the side impact, a mobile deformable barrier impacts the driver's door at 50 km/h. In the pole test, the car tested is propelled sideways at 29km/h into a rigid pole.
Euro NCAP carried out "sine-with-dwell" tests according to the ESC GTR global technical regulation, which is based on the US regulation FMVSS126. For cars that allowed the ESC system to be switched off, tests were carried out with ESC ON and OFF. Cars were tested by undergoing multiple runs, sometimes as much as 60 per car, each time increasing the steering angle and input. The clip shows the 'first ESC off test' where the car span out. The 'ESC on test' is the one with the same steering input.
Front Impact:
Driver:
Pole:
CRS:
Whiplash:
Recently we have seem some upsetting crashes involving DS3club cars, with passengers walking away from some horrific damage to the cars.
For the benefit of current owners and the guidance for potential new owners I thought I would collate the safety ratings:
Frontal Impact takes place at 64 Km/h, 40% of the width of the car striking a deformable barrier. In the side impact, a mobile deformable barrier impacts the driver's door at 50 km/h. In the pole test, the car tested is propelled sideways at 29km/h into a rigid pole.
Euro NCAP carried out "sine-with-dwell" tests according to the ESC GTR global technical regulation, which is based on the US regulation FMVSS126. For cars that allowed the ESC system to be switched off, tests were carried out with ESC ON and OFF. Cars were tested by undergoing multiple runs, sometimes as much as 60 per car, each time increasing the steering angle and input. The clip shows the 'first ESC off test' where the car span out. The 'ESC on test' is the one with the same steering input.
Front Impact:
Driver:
Pole:
CRS:
Whiplash:
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