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Hi quick question. Is a car weighing 1100 kg and has a 5 star rating just as strong and safe as car weighing 1600kg and too has a 5 star safety rating. Rgds, Kal
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An accident will consume more stars in the 1100kg than the stars used in the 1600kg.
Dont crash in a Ford F150 tho - its a shocker
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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NCAP ratings can only be compared for a given size of car. A rating of 5 for say a super-mini does not mean it's as safe as an executive car with a 5 rating. In fact an exec car with a 4 rating could be safer than the higher rated small car.
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Hi quick question. Is a car weighing 1100 kg and has a 5 star rating just as strong and safe as car weighing 1600kg and too has a 5 star safety rating.
No. Infact, a 4 star 1600kg car is probably safer than a 5 star 1100kg car.
NCAP ratings can only be compared within class. Another reason why, IMHO, they are barely worth the paper they are written on.
Give me a 4 star executive car to crash in at 70mph over a 5 star supermini any day.
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"Another reason why, IMHO, they are barely worth the paper they are written on."
This is why they are worth more than paper. Wiothout them we would still be driving around in things like this:
h t t p://paultan.org/archives/2005/10/07/jiangling-landwind-x6-crash-test-o
utside-view/
Watch the steering wheel.
I hope your car has stars when you need them. You wont be here to moan about it thats for sure.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Without them I dare say manufacturers would be focusing on cars that perform well in real world accidents not in NCAP's testing lab crashing into perfectly sized objects at exactly 30mph.
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NCAP is clearly very valuable as a guide though the answer to the OP's question is - depends.
I.e. a small car carries less inertia at a given speed so, for instance, in a rear ender may do less damage to itself and less damage to the car in front (and accordingly it's occupants) than a larger car would.
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Which give ratings that allow one to compare vehicles in different classes - unlike the NCAP star system. Big cars do indeed tend to do better than small ones.
See, for example
www.which.net/motoring/p10-15_car_safety.pdf
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