While buying a car what are the top 5 features you'll keep in mind? Hardly anyone will keep safety in the top 5 list. Well yes, 99 out of 100 people won't choose safety, but safety is the most important thing in a car. In India, it is more important to choose safety over anything, as the concentration is high in India and the roads are small in comparison with that, because of which many accidents take place here, and one of the biggest reasons for it is cars in India are not at all safe.
How to know if a car is safe or not? Well, there is an agency called NCAP or New Car Assessment Program. NCAP has many different chapters worldwide like, European NCAP, Latin NCAP, etc. Latin NCAP has the hardest tests among all these. We'll list down the top 5 safest cars of India but before that, we'll know about NCAP, that's how they find out that a car is safe. Basically, when a new car is launched, the brand sells a car to them, or they pick up a car from the batch for testing. For conducting one test, it takes 2-3 days, hardly the test takes 60 seconds to 3 minutes but it takes time for the preparation. NCAP stages the scenario, and sets up cameras, blocks with which are collision will take place and other monitoring systems to measure the amount of injury the person is having and not only these, in fact, they are seeing at which part of the body the person is getting injured. There are two categories for which they conduct the tests for is COT which is Child Occupant Protection and another is AOP which is Adult Occupant Protection. There are 3 - 4 different tests, one is a straight head-on collision at a specific speed of 64 kmph, after doing these test they measure are amount of injury the occupant had inside the car, and where they got injured then based on that they give ratings, and they test the base models of the cars. As per the Government standards, a car has to go through a front and side collision test at a speed of 50 kmph, and if it passes this test then it can be launched and if it cannot pass this test then it cannot even be launched in the market. So based on the Global NCAP, the top 5 safest cars in India are,
Tata Punch
Well, Tata Punch which is a micro SUV by Tata has got a 5-star rating for safety by Global NCAP. Tata as a company is actually making good cars that have good safety in them. For example, Tata Punch has got 16.45 points out of 17 points in the AOP test, and the reason behind this score is simple as the basic safety features are present in this car like it has dual airbags, ABS, front seatbelt reminder, rear parking sensors, Isofix child seat mount for a child seat. So because of all these features, this car is safe.
Mahindra XUV300
Mahindra XUV 300 has also got a 5-star rating for safety. Well in India top 5 safest cars are from Mahindra and Tata only, there are 3 Tata and 2 Mahindra cars in the safest cars list. So Mahindra XUV 300 is the 3rd Indian-made car that has got a 5-star rating in safety. It is one of the safest compact SUVs, in terms of features you're getting dual airbags, ABS with EBD, corner stability control, etc, ultimately these small features add to the overall safety of the car, all these features come in XUV 300 but it results in the price to a little high, but yes, safety is very very important.
Tata Altoz
This is a Hatchback/Crossover, that comes with features like dual airbags, voice control, and other basic safety features which makes this car one safest car in India with a 5-star rating. Interestingly, all these cars are in the price range of 5-10 lakhs.
Tata Nexon
The 1st made in India car which has got a 5-star rating in safety by Global NCAP was Tata Nexon, and because of which it became one of the popular cars in the market, it also has an Electric version which also has a 5-star rating in safety. The reasons behind this remain the same as others, it has dual airbags, electronic stability control, traction control, roll-over mitigation.
Mahindra XUV700
Mahindra XUV 700 possible be the only 3 row SUV that has a 5-star rating in safety. Its fully loaded variants come with 7 airbags and with that you get ADAS as a standard feature, emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, etc. If you check out the feature list then you'll find out that it has got the maximum features in it. So XUV 700 comes in the top 5 safest cars list.
So these are the top 5 safest cars in India which have got a 5-star rating for safety by Global NCAP. That's all for this post. Stay tuned to CERadar for more such content.
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