The new Ford Mondeo has won a 5-star rating for adult occupant protection in the latest round of Euro NCAP safety testing announced today. The test result for Mondeo was one of the top 10 ever recorded in the respected independent crash testing evaluations.

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The new Volkswagen Tiguan has been awarded a maximum five star rating for occupant protection by Euro NCAP ahead of its launch in the UK next year. In addition the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) awarded the Tiguan four stars for child safety and two stars for pedestrian protection.

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The Euro NCAP five-star rated cee’d has proven it’s a safe car in more ways than one – it has been employed as an official Safety Car at a number of motor racing circuits around the UK. The job of a Safety Car is to intervene in serious and dangerous incidents during races to control the pace of the cars or motor cycles until the incident is resolved. It’s a tough role, but the Kia cee’d is up to it.

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One of our visitors sent us a crash test video of the new Chinese car called Brilliance BS6. The car in the crash test was completely destroyed and it achieved only one of possible five stars in the Euro NCAP safety rating. So, we've decided to dig deeper and find out how other Chinese cars crash tests look like. We were stunned how these cars crash, it's like they were made out of paper. A person crashing any of these car at 40MPH would likely not survive.

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Deadly ignorance about tired driving is putting lives at risk as an estimated 2.3 million drivers have dozed off behind the wheel, according to research released today by road safety charity Brake and Green Flag. The vast majority of the 1,000 drivers interviewed (78%) put their trust in ineffective measures to combat tiredness such as opening a window or listening to the radio. Drivers were three times more likely to open the window when tired than take a nap while safely parked, which is recommended by the Government [2]. A shocking one in 14 (7%) admitted falling asleep while driving in the past year while a quarter (26%) said they had been a passenger with a tired driver. National road safety charity Brake and Green Flag are deeply concerned that not enough drivers know the proven measures to avoid tired driving: a good night’s sleep before a journey; stopping at least every two hours; or stopping to take a nap if they feel tired. Brake is calling for the Government to invest in high profile campaigns to combat this deadly ignorance.

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The Fiat 500 has just achieved the prestigious Euro NCAP five-star crash safety rating, (with a total of 35 points), so taking over top spot in its segment for safety. This important award adds to those assigned recently to the Fiat Bravo and Grande Punto, and confirms the special attention Fiat Automobiles SpA pays to all aspects of driver and passenger protection.

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New Twingo has scored four stars and 28(*) points out of 37 in the passive safety tests conducted by the independent organisation EuroNCAP. Alongside this excellent, officially recognised level of passive safety, New Twingo also delivers reassuring handling and class-leading road manners with sure-footed, reliable performance.

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Even before it is launched, the Peugeot 308 has been awarded the maximum Five Star occupant protection rating by Euro NCAP.Safety is always a crucial factor in the design of any new Peugeot vehicle. The 308, therefore, has benefited from Peugeot’s wide experience and also from the latest technological advances to ensure it provides its occupants with the highest levels of safety.This has also been recognised by Euro NCAP which has awarded the Peugeot 308: 5 Stars for occupant protection, 4 Stars for child protection, 3 Stars for pedestrian protection.

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Kia’s European-designed and built cee’d family car has been awarded a 5-Star safety rating in the latest Euro NCAP crash test results published today. The cee’d safety ratings – 5-Stars for Adult Protection, 4-Stars for Child Protection and 2-Stars for Pedestrian Protection – place it among the C-segment’s safest cars.

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Subaru of America, Inc. today announced that the 2008 Subaru Forester will have the highest rating in the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) crash tests. The Subaru Forester received five stars in both the frontal and side-impact crash tests for both the driver and passenger seating positions.

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